Benefits Of Swimming Essay

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What type of sport delivers an extremely hard workout yet still teaches good life skills and provides good friends? Swimming can supply all of those and more. Working out can help provide a healthy lifestyle. Having skills and friends that can help in life is also important because they can be beneficial later in life. I have participated on swim team for ten years and through all that time I have met many people. Those people that I met I consider the best friends that I have ever made. They helped me enjoy swimming and workout to my max. Swimming on a swim team can produce effects such as a healthier body, life skills, and lifelong friends. First off, swimming often helps produce a positive benefit to the human body. Actively moving …show more content…

Life skills that swimmers learn can include many things, but learning how to swim and take instructions remain the most important out of all of them. About ten years ago my family had taken a vacation. While we stayed at the hotel, we had jumped into the pool with my five-year-old cousin. We played for an hour or so and most of us had climbed out, but my older sister Savanna had just so happened to glance at the covered balcony to see people pointing back into the pool. She turned around and sure enough our little cousin had drifted off to where she slowly struggled to return to the surface of the water. Savanna quickly dove into the pool and dragged her back to safety. Because Savanna knew how to swim from doing swim team she saved a life that day. Another important life quality is the ability to listen to instructions. On my swim team when kids misbehaved or did not listen, they would either have to hop out of the pool and sit on the deck until they fixed their attitude or do extra sets. Knowing the consequences of misbehaving helped us listen better during swim practice which in turn helped us listen to other people who supervised us. To perform well, swimmers need to learn how important virtues such as learning how to swim and respecting people in …show more content…

Swimming remains a great way to exercise because it can workout the legs, core, and so much more. It also teaches respect to the swimmers by them having to listen to what their coach tells then to do for the workout. Most importantly swimming makes it easier to relate to each other. Just as a Russian Proverb once said “No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.” By competing in swim team people make friends, learn how to swim, and most importantly to respect people in authority which pleases the

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