Is practicing swimming actually Life-changing? | Healthy readings for adults

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4 min readApr 4, 2023

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All around the world millions of people are swimming. Although their objective varies: Athletes: training for a triathlon, 100-meter butterfly, open-water record-breaking, scuba diving, etc. However, the critical benefit of swimming is not supposed to take by athletes completely. Using basic swimming sessions each week, a non-athlete regular person could gain enormous benefits like-holistic improvement of mental and physical health, dealing with depression, trauma, inferiority, and so on.

how swimming can change life completely

According to gullup.com, globally 44% of people are capable of swimming. If you are one of them you should take the lucrative advantage of swimming. If you are unable to swim you could start today: it only takes 2.5–5 months to learn swimming from scratch. If you are an adult the learning will be fast because you will understand the technique better than kids.

How many aspects of life could be changed through swim

Swimming is a motor activity. It requires locomotion and movement in the resistance of water. Being a resistance training, swimming brings a lot of changes in the human body. But before diving into the list, you should know that

“No amount of significant changes would be visible until you do swimming on regular basis for an extended period”.

The followings are the benefits of swimming:

· Improve health Holistically

· Solve Multiple issues in adult life

· Unavoidable health benefits

· Role of swimming in mental health

· How swimming takes a part in Personality development

Swim strokes like butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle and its calorie burn per hour
different types of swim strokes and calorie burn per hour

Improve health holistically

Butterflies, breaststroke, backstroke, and front crawl, are almost all types of swimming that require to function every single body part. From head to toe, a swimmer needs to use every single body part to swim efficiently.

A person can swim-

1. To gain flexibility

2. To improve shoulder, and arm mobility

3. To build strong back, chest, and core muscles

4. To make cardio-vascular health better (Improve lungs & heart health)

5. To achieve strong mental health

holistic benefits of swimming
holistic benefits of swimming

There are plenty of health benefits of swimming at macro, and nano levels of observation. It will be a discussion of another day.

Solve multiple problems in adult life

Where adult life is meant to be exciting and adventurous data shows something contrary. In the article Recovery Village, we could see the evidence of stress levels in adult life. About 33% of people have confessed they have extreme stress, and 77% of people say their stress is affecting their physical health. Almost <0.5% confessed that they are under near zero stress.

At a practical level, stress is normal due to several reasons in adult life. But when it crosses beyond normalcy it is a matter of concern.

Well, you can have multiple stressful phases in your personal, and professional life still you can live your life with minimum stress. All over the world, many adults are actively reducing their stress, and depression using swimming. All this happens due to the secretion of hormones in the brain called endorphins. This hormone makes you feel good.

Hence, every time you swim joyfully endorphins will make you happy

How swimming takes a part in personality development

Personality development is generally taught in teens and early adults. However, adults can take advantage of here too. As a sport, swimming also helps a person to set goals, achieve a milestone, break records, and follow a consistent routine, improving a particular area of physical movement, etc. All these will not only make you a better athlete but also builds self-confidence, willpower, high pain tolerance, sharp reflex, etc.

Our wish is that swimmers take swimming lessons and do training effectively and joyfully.

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Thanks for reading. Wish you a positively progressive day.🎯🙏

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