How swimming affects your body?
Whether one swims competitively or does swimming as an exercise in free time, the effects on body are unlimited and all these affects are healthy and beneficial. People belonging to any age group can start swimming. It not only helps in the physical fitness of the body but has many other benefits, e.g. it’s very useful in reducing weight, decreases the cholesterol level of the body, improve the sleeping patterns, stimulate the digestion process, helps the person suffering from asthma and cardiovascular diseases and increase the muscle mass.
Many folks call it a complete and perfect exercise, it’s a complete body work out as during swimming, our limbs, hands, legs, arms all move continuously. Swimming improves body coordination, muscle flexibility and build up the stamina.
One of the most useful benefits of swimming is that, it has low injury risk. Water supports the body and there’s no pressure on bones. People having some injury, overweight, or at older age can swim for longer period effortlessly. Even mostly sports player suffering from any injury started swimming during that time period to maintain their strength and stamina and for toning the body muscles.
Swimming not only makes you physically fit but reduces the weight and burn calories proficiently. As you know during swimming our whole body is in action and muscles are moving continuously, doing work out, burning calories. And the result of this healthy exercise is weight reduction. It also lowers the blood pressure and cholesterol level in our body. Lowering the cholesterol level directly relates with cardiovascular diseases, so swimming helps a lot to improve the cardiovascular health. People who do swimming on regular basis lessen the risk of heart attacks.
Swimming can also be added in the daily routine life as a stress reliever medicine, yes swimming is an excellent way to relieve your stress, relax your muscles and joints, and make you feel calm and lighter. Like many other exercises, swimming stimulates and increases the level of endorphin in our body. This hormone is a natural pain killer and stress fighter. Endorphin helps to relieve the pain, stress and fear, diminish the feelings of loneliness, sadness and maintain a good happy mood. Swimming refreshes the mind as well. It not only increases the amount of relaxing hormones in the body but also helps in meditation. The person feels pleasure, light hearted, relaxed and calm after swimming. Mostly people do swimming in evening time after coming back from office or any hard training to relieve the stress and burden of work.
Swimming helps a lot to build up the muscle mass, increases the flexibility and stamina, and makes someone more strong and composed. Muscles got more stretched during swimming than in any other exercise. As in every stroke of water the legs and arms made movement and stretched at maximum extent.
Sydney Swimmers is a family sport. As people of any age group can do swimming. So during the harsh sunny days the whole family can plan a family picnic near a sea or a beach, can play with water and along with that doing an exercise which is more healthy and beneficial than any other.