Rehabilitation.
Swimming is an activity which takes place in the medium of water, which due to its weight bearing properties, is an ideal medium due to there being no stress on the joints. Athletes from other sports often use swimming or exercise in water as an aid to recovery.
Improves your self esteem.
When you feel fit and healthy, you have a more positive approach to life. You have more confidence to try other activities, which helps to get people out of the house and keeps them active. You feel a great deal of satisfaction from taking part in a variety of activities.
Long Term Benefits.
Improves your level of Fitness – increase your stamina.
By training on a regular basis, and increasing the effort over a period of time, a person increases their own fitness level. This can be see as you can take part for a longer period of time, and increase the amount of metres that you swim. The longer time you can swim for, the better is your stamina. Thus if you take part in ‘Fit Swim Wales’ programme, or the ‘Junior Fit Swim Wales’ programme at your local pool, you can have a structured approach to your swimming, and assistance from trained personnel.
Helps you to lose weight/maintain weight.
When you first start to train in conjunction with a healthy diet, you will reduce weight through the effort you are using. This will level out at some point, if you continue to train your can maintain your weight, but if you reduce your training the weight will start to increase again.
Tones up your muscles.
If you train regularly, you will have good muscle tone, which helps you to look good, and is part of the process of self esteem.
Help maintain and improve your mobility.
If you are inactive, you lose strength, balance and co-ordination. By swimming on a regular basis, this will improve, and as you get older will assist in keeping an active life style.
Swimming is great for the Family.
When you go on holidays with family and friends, swimming provides an ideal opportunity for all ages to take part in. It opens opportunities for different aquatic opportunities to take part in together. Swimming is considered ideal to take part in from cradle to grave, and thus has enormous opportunities for social activities between young and old alike.