The Benefits Of Swimming

“Only 56 percent of Americans can perform core swimming skills” (Feeney). These skills include things like jumping or stepping water over one’s head, returning to the surface to tread water or float for one minute, circling around and identifying an exit. Swimming 25 yards to that point and then exiting the water. Than there are stories of people who are 70 plus getting in the pool and learning to swim for the first time and how it is helping them live longer and happier lives. Swimming has been helping people physically, mentally, and socially.

Swimming helps improve the pulmonary and Cardiovascular systems. For example, “Swimming is thus frequently recommended for asthmatics as a safe and enjoyable

Any kind of physical fitness increases people’s mood. But swimming achieves it a different way, by making people feel refreshed and feeling good about themselves. Swimming not only improves your mood ,but it improves memory too. Exercise helps memory and thinking both direct and indirect. The benefits of exercise come directly from its ability to stimulate the release of growth factors-chemicals in the brain that affect the health of brain cells, the growth of new blood vessels in the brain, and even the abundance and survival of new brain cells.” (Godman). It just makes even more reasons to hop in a pool and start swimming. Knowing that just moving your hands and feet back and forth in a pool can do so much for the human

“Young adults who exercise and socialize regularly reported better mental health than peers who didn’t. In fact, according to the study’s authors, some of the mental benefits associated with exercising may be due to the social aspect of it.” Unlike “those who engaged in vigorous exercise for 20 minutes at least three day week were less likely to report poor mental health and perceived stress” (“Exercising and Socializing”). Swimming is a very socialized sport, weather you are a casual swimmer or a competitive swimmer. When socializing and working it out it builds confidence, knowing that lives are changing for the better and talking to someone at the same time. Really releases happy chemicals for the brain, which makes a person happy. So overall swimming gives swimmers a social health