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How to talk about water without extolling the merits in relation to physical activity ?

Swimming is the activity par excellence that connects us to the water if we consider the practice of sport.

But what are the benefits?

Let’s talk first about your physical condition.

Swimming allows you to run all your muscle mass and therefore promotes calorie burning. Although the fact swimming generates proportionately less caloric expenditure (about 600 kcal/hour) running (about 850 Kcal/hour), this activity provides a significant advantage for your skeleton and cartilaginous structures. Indeed, the absence of shock and the buoyancy of the water allow the joints to be unloaded from the body weight. People who are overweight or who return to work after injury will find of particular interest.

The effects on your cardiovascular system ventilation are equally beneficial. This endurance sport by excellence imposes a discipline related to respiratory emersion and immersion of the head ring, itself conditioned by the frequency of movements of all four limbs.

Benefits for your well being

It would be an unpardonable omission to extol the virtues of swimming without mentioning the benefits on your psyche generated by the soothing and relaxing aspect of the aquatic environment.

Particular population there is also a significant development. Swimming proved to be effective against the treatment of autism. Stresses generated by this environment brings to the autistic see itself differently in different surrounding and thus lead to develop appropriate responses to the environment.

However, like any sport, swimming can bring a lot of disadvantages.

If backbone fragility or susceptibility to low back pain, it is better to focus back crawls rather than crawl or breaststroke.

Swimming does not circumvent the rules resulting from an abusive practice. It will result in the possible emergence of tendonitis in the shoulders or knees more often.

Finally, chlorine and other chemicals added to pool water can irritate your skin.

Some resistant bacteria can be the cause of occurrence of mycoses. Preventive point of this kind of inconvenience is the mandatory shower late in the session and careful drying of difficult access parts such as ears or folds at the joints.

Put your shoes when you move on pool decks, this precaution may decrease significantly the appearance of plantar warts.

To conclude, swimming, like any sport or any other physical activity is undoubtedly beneficial to health. Regular practice, the order of two to three sessions per week of 30-45 minutes each, is a key to your good mental and physical health.

Prove fun to swim. After all, is it not this environment that we all come from ? See and feel in swimming back to the very sources of your prenatal life.

More precisely, swimming is a way to combine the body and the soul, Body with Soul…

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