Resources for Fitness Swimming
Swimming is an ideal fitness
activity. When you swim, you get a total body workout that combines
cardiovascular and strength benefits. You work your heart and lungs as well as
getting a strenuous workout for your upper and lower body. In addition, this is
done in a weight bearing (the water bears your body weight) environment so that
there is little stress to your joints and connective tissue. It is less
important that you are a good swimmer and more important that you are active
against the resistance of the water which, in fact, provides much more
resistance than air. Whether you enter a pool or other body of water to swim or
for some other fitness activity is not important either since all activities in
water will produce varying degrees of the same effect. We highly recommend
swimming as both an excellent aerobic and cardiovascular activity and a
strength and flexibility activity.
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USA Swimming -
Publications, educational programs, fund-raising activities,
sports medicine programs, resources and general information about
swimming-related activities. |
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FINA -
Federation
Internationale de Natation - World wide Swimming sports
organisation |
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Swimmers Guide -
More
information about more swimming pools in more places than on any other
resource! |
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