Known as the "king of sports," swimming is credited with avoiding the joint damage that regular exercise can cause, as well as its many health benefits for people of all ages.Many athletes use swimming to help them recover from injuries. Swimming does not require professional facilities. A pool of clear water is enough.So what are some little-known health benefits of swimming?In this episode of Get Fit, Steven tells us more!
1. Swimming builds muscle lines and enhances muscle strength
People can strengthen their muscles by swimming.Running can improve the strength of people's legs, while swimming requires the coordination of muscles in all parts of the body, so it can make the whole body muscles can be exercised.
Kicking back with legs, paddling arms, stretching and shrinking back, and tightening belly to increase leg strength and maintain hip stability, these basic swimming movements make every muscle in the body HIGH, which not only increases strength, but also avoids muscle imbalance and other terrible consequences caused by apparatus exercise.
2. Swimming can improve bone mass
There was a time when many people scoffed at the idea that swimming could improve bone mass, a goal that only weight training seemed to achieve, but a study published in the journal of Applied Physiology supports it.Because of the ethical controversy surrounding direct bone examination of humans, the researchers used mice as subjects and divided them into three groups: a runner, a swimmer and a control group (who did not exercise).
The study showed that running increased bone density the most, and the swimming group did better than the control group in terms of both bone density and thigh bone weight.So if you want healthier bones, swim!
3. Swimming improves your flexibility
Swimming involves stretching, curling, turning and paddling in the water, with the feet acting as fins and pushing forward through the water.In the course of the stroke, the repeated telescopic movement can help improve the body's flexibility and flexibility, so, often sit office workers and related diseases of the elderly might as well try swimming.
4. Swimming reduces the risk of inflammation
Swimming is known to enhance heart muscle function and improve cardiovascular health, and studies have further confirmed that aerobic exercise such as swimming can help reduce the risk of inflammation, thereby preventing diseases such as atherosclerosis that can result from it.In addition, reducing the risk of inflammation throughout the system can also slow the progression of many other diseases, with many benefits.
5.Swimming can help burn fat and lose weight
Everyone knows that swimming can help you lose weight, but did you know that swimming can help you lose as much fat as running on a treadmill, and that swimming can help you lose more weight than running if you choose the right stroke and intensity?For example, if you swim for 10 minutes, you can burn 60 calories in breaststroke, 80 calories in backstroke, 100 calories in freestyle and 150 calories in butterfly.By contrast, running for 10 minutes burns only 100 calories.You can see which is better and which is worse.
6. Swimming can relieve exercise-induced asthma
There's nothing worse than having difficulty breathing during exercise!People can breathe moist air and improve their breathing function when they swim, compared to exercising in a dry gym or outdoors, which is full of pollen.Studies have shown that swimming not only relives asthma symptoms, but also radically improves lung health.The most typical example is South Korean swimming star Park Tae-hwan. He developed asthma when he was a child, and then his parents asked him to practice swimming to help relieve the symptoms. As a result, his asthma disappeared and he became an Olympic champion.
7. Swimming can help relieve stress and depression
Endorphins are a feel-good hormone that can improve people's mood, while swimming can effectively stimulate the release of endorphins and help people relieve the pressure of daily work and life;In addition, swimming is just as relaxing as yoga, which is even better when combined with regular deep breathing.At the same time, swimming also calms people down, keeps them away from outside distractions, and makes them more focused, which naturally lowers the level of stress and depression.It also helps restore brain function that has been damaged by stress through a process called hippocampal nerve regeneration.So, on days when you're not feeling your best, change into a bathing suit and jump in the pool to let off steam.
8. Swimming in the sea improves your skin
To the belle beautiful male that wants beautiful skin, summer swims in seawater is a good choice, because often swim in seawater has profit to the skin, can help the skin to protect wet not only, still be helpful for skin detoxification, promote the growth of skin new cell.When you are enjoying swimming, you will find that your skin is getting better and better. You can kill two birds with one stone.
9. Swimming makes you wise
Yes, exercise can improve your mental state, but does swimming really make you smarter?Researchers from Australia studied a group of children who had taken a swimming training course, and a control group of children who had not been taught to swim.The results showed that the children who swam more often were faster and better at mastering language, learning to ride a bike, building confidence and developing physically than the control group.Besides, regular swimmers are better at arithmetic because they have to count the distances they swim over and over again!
10.Swimming can lengthen your life
Exercise is known to improve health and prolong life, but the study further confirms that swimming is the best at both.Researchers at the University of Southern California followed 40,547 men between the ages of 20 and 90 for 32 years and found that men who swam were nearly half as likely to die as those who ran, walked or did not exercise.So swimming is definitely a prescription for a long life!
The benefits of swimming are countless, so don't hesitate dear friends!