People can strengthen their muscles by swimming. Running can improve the strength of people's legs, while swimming requires the coordinated efforts of muscles in all parts of the body, so the muscles of the whole body can be exercised.
Push your legs back, stroke your arms, stretch and contract your back, and tuck in your abdomen to increase your leg strength and keep your hips stable. These basic swimming movements make every muscle in your body high, which not only enhances your strength, but also avoids the possible muscle asymmetry caused by the movement of the equipment.
Swimming can improve the flexibility of the body.
Swimming requires people to stretch, curl up, turn around and paddle in the water. Their feet act as fins and generate forward propulsion by pedaling.
In the process of paddling, repeated stretching helps to improve the flexibility and flexibility of the body, so office workers who often sit in offices and elderly people with joint diseases may wish to try swimming.
Swimming can reduce the risk of inflammation.
As we all know, swimming helps to enhance myocardial function and improve cardiovascular health. Related research further confirms that aerobic exercise such as swimming helps to reduce the risk of inflammation, thus preventing diseases such as cardiac atherosclerosis caused by it.
In addition, reducing the inflammatory risk of the whole system can also alleviate the deterioration of many other diseases, with many benefits.
Swimming helps to burn fat and lose weight.
Everyone knows that swimming can lose weight, but do you know that swimming can lose weight as well as running on a treadmill, and if you choose the right swimming posture and intensity, swimming can even lose weight better than running?
Take swimming 10 minute as an example, breaststroke can burn 60 calories, backstroke can burn 80 calories, freestyle can burn 100 calories, and butterfly can burn 150 calories. In contrast, running 10 minutes can only consume 100 calories. You can tell at a glance which is better or worse.