February 19, 2016
RENATA NEWS
Swimming can help you live a Healthy Happy Life
Swimmers live longer compared to the average slothful person and live longer than runners, having 49% lower mortality
rate. Swimming is right for you if you are looking to add 10 more years to your life. Swimming is one of the oldest activates
out there. There really is no beginning to swimming because as long as there was water, humans had to swim but it
became a competitive sport in England in the early 1800’s. Swimming’s definition is the action of you propelling yourself
through water. Swimming daily is better for your body and better than any other sport for your overall health. Swimming is
better because it can help your circulatory system, improve muscle and muscle mass as well as help you lose weight, and
can elongate your lifespan Swimming can make your life longer than it is now and you can even outlast a runner. In a
study done by The University of South Carolina data showed that swimmers had 49% lower mortality rate than runners.
This study was conducted with a group of around 40,000 men and only 1.9% of the swimmers in that group had died
within a 13 year period. This shows that indeed swimming can play a part in making you life longer. Not only does your
lifespan possibly elongate longer than your possible lifespan now but as well as possibly growing longer than if you took
up running or some other sports. You could live longer and still be healthy the whole time with swimming. Swimming also
improves muscle strength and mass and helps weight loss. With 12%-14% more resistance in water than on land, moving
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in water takes more energy and calories.(a specific burn
rate is 3 calories per mile for every pound) With this it is
understandable that a study found that after 8 weeks of
swim training, the men participating had 23.8% more
muscle in their triceps. It doesn't stop there though.
Swimming can also help with flexibility, which in turn can
help with your posture. Swimming also causes all of your
major muscle groups to work hard to keep you afloat or
moving. All of your body parts are used in swimming, not
just your legs or arms but your every body part. Lastly
swimming helps improve your heart and circulatory
system. Above all else swimming definitively helps your
blood pump. In a study from the Cooper Clinic in Dallas,
swimming really benefits the heart. In the study 46,000
female and male walkers, runners, swimmers and
sedentary people had their blood pressure, cholesterol
levels, maximum energy output, and other cardiovascular
health. Swimmers took the lead with the best scores,
proving that swimmers cardiovascular systems were very
healthy. While swimming you are in a relaxed state from
concentration, which is good for the heart, swimming is
also physically challenging which also helps the heart. In
the end swimming allows more efficient blood flow to the
heart and lungs and a reduced heart rate. Many would
argue
that swimming doesn't help you lose weight
or that there better ways to build up your
muscles and they are right. Swimming is
not the best way to lose weight or build muscles or make you more flexible but swimming is the best
exercise because it does all of the above. Maybe it isn't the best exercise to lose weight but the
point is that it does help you lose weight and more. Swimming, unlike lifting weight or running,
doesn't focus on just one part of the body but builds muscle everywhere on your body.
Swimming, unlike strength training, helps your flexibility, posture, and circulatory system.
Swimming is an exercise that has it all and you can also continue it throughout your life.
Swimming every day can continuously help your health in many ways. In ways such as your heart
health and cardiovascular system. Some other ways it helps is making you more flexible and with
better posture, then with muscle mass and losing weight. In the end it also extends your lifespan. It is
important for people to exercise and swimming is an amazing way to exercise. Through swimming you can get the
exercise you need. You also won't have to stop when you get old. You can keep healthy throughout your whole life with
swimming
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Work Cited
"Swimming- health benefits" Victoria State Government Better Health Channel. Victoria State Government Better Health
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"Swimming Information" Bucknell University. Bucknell, n.d. Web. 18 January 2016
Richard Weil "Swimming (cont.)" MedicineNet. MedicineNet, n.d. Web. 19 January 2016
"Take the Plunge for your Heart" Harvard Health Publications. Harvard Health Publications, n.d. Web. 18 January 2016
"Swimming for Your Heart" newFitness. newFitness, n.d. Web. 10 January 2016
"The Health a Benefits of Consistent Swimming" Trust Report. Trust Report, n.d. Web. 20 January 2016
Janet Evans "Why Choose Swimming?" Human Kinetics. Human Kinetics, n.d. Web. 20 January 2016
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