5 health benefits of swimming :
1) Fun
This one tops the list in our charts. You can either treat it as a exercise or challenge your friend, time your laps, chase, float. There is no end to the fun. Water exercises are playful and you dont have to worry about being serious. It is relaxing, you can choose how much energy you want to put in it, without all the overheating and jarring. The movements in water are smooth and low impact thus saving you from all the stress and strain.
2.It provides an aerobic workout for people who find running too jarring on their joints. (Keep in mind: Your heart rate may not reflect intensity the same way it does on land. It can be as much as 17 beats per minute slower, in part due to water's buoyancy and cooling effects.)
3. Forces you to work on your breathing
There is a far higher level of moisture present in the air when you’re at a swimming pool in comparison to the dry air that you’ll experience at a gym. The moisture in the air makes it far easier to breath, perfect for those that suffer with asthma and find cardio in the gym or in the park that bit too hard on their lungs. Studies have shown that swimming can vastly improve asthma symptoms, even a whole year after your swimming routine stops. Swimming is not only beneficial to asthma sufferers however, it can also help to increase your lung volume and force you to learn better breathing techniques that can aid you when lifting weights or running.
4. Get flexible
When you’re at the gym you’ll tend to use isolation machines that work specific areas of the body, where as swimming allows you to use a lot of the bodies muscles at the same time. The strokes that utilise a wide arc such as front crawl target a lot of the arm muscles that are missed in basic exercises, while the scissoring movement made with your legs forces your body to use more of your leg muscles in a plethora of fluid motions. Swimming is also really helpful as a way to elongate and stretch out your whole body as you keep reaching further out with your strokes.
5) Weight Control
Swimming is recognised as one of the biggest calorie burners around, and it's great for keeping weight under control.
The exact number of calories you burn, of course, depends on your own physiology and the intensity with which you exercise, but as a general rule, for every 10 minutes of swimming:
.Breast stroke will burn 60 calories
.Backstroke torches 80 calories
.Freestyle lights up 100 calories
.Butterfly stroke incinerates an impressive 150 calories
To boost the calorie-burning component of swimming, consider using intervals in which you work your hardest for short bursts and then recover
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