The benefits of swimming
1, swimming can shape muscle lines and enhance muscle strength.
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, pull your arms, stretch and contract your back, tighten your abdomen, increase your leg strength and keep your hips stable. These basic swimming movements make every muscle of the whole body excited, which not only enhances the strength, but also avoids the possible consequences of muscle asymmetry caused by the movement of equipment.
2. Swimming can improve bones.
In the past, people questioned the view that swimming can improve bones, but an article in a magazine once supported this view.
Because there are some moral controversies in direct bone examination, the researchers divided mice into three groups: running group, swimming group and control group (no exercise).
Research shows that running can improve the bone mineral density, and compared with the control group, the swimming group performs better in bone mineral density and thigh bone weight. Obviously, if you want healthier bones, swim!
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.
During swimming, repeated arm and leg movements can better improve the flexibility and flexibility of the body. Therefore, it is suggested that office workers and people with joint diseases can try swimming.
4. 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.
6. Swimming can relieve exercise-induced asthma.
Nothing is more sad than breathing difficulties during exercise! Compared with outdoor exercise in a gym with dry air or full of pollen, people can breathe humid air and improve their respiratory function when swimming.
Studies have confirmed that swimming can not only relieve asthma symptoms, but also fundamentally improve lung health. The most typical example is a famous swimmer in South Korea. He suffered from asthma when he was a child. Later, his parents asked him to practice swimming to help relieve his symptoms. As a result, not only did asthma disappear, but he also became an Olympic champion. Kill two birds with one stone!