swim benefits
- I have begun swimming just the past 3 weeks in the school pool. My incentive was being chronically tired, 35# overweight and mentally foggy. I now am feeling mentally and physically better than in a long time, in class more alert, sleep longer and better. By the way, I turned 50 4 months ago and decided to change my ways. Weight loss is not happening, but my overall body is leaner. I signed up on this site to find workout info., and others that are interested in water fun!!
- —Guest al b
Maulena
- When I was 40 the Dr. found I had dangerously high cholesterol. I chose to swim because it was free where I worked at a recreation centre. At first I had to force myself to get into the pool I had to stop 2 or 3 times before I could even complete ONE length! After much determination and persistance, my breathing, rhythym and strength improved. I forced myself to be disciplined like never before. I lost about 30 pounds and went down 2 dress sizes, too! I swam for about 5 years then got a rotator cuff and got lazy and gradually gave it up. That was 15 years ago. A few months ago I made a decision to get back to swimming again. In order to get a good start I decided to swim for a cause. Our church is helping to build an orphanage in India, so I decided to collect pledges for each kilometer I swam. My goal is 60 kilometers. (About 35 miles.) I have completed 40 so far. All my pledges total $1,000.00. As I swim now, I thank God for all those who contribute and pray for the orphans.
- —Guest Maulena Konala
My Will Not My Wim Be Done
- It's very satisfying to go to the pool with a challenging workout plan and to achieve it, especially when I don't want to be there. It's a strange dichotomy; to love what swimming accomplishes, but to dislike the process of starting. The first 4 to 8 laps are horrendous, the last twenty are divine. So swimming for me is a good tool both for training my body and my mind to behave according to my will and not my wim.
- —Guest Cal
It is not just about the physical aspect
- Swimming for me is more like and over all mind, heart, body and soul exercise. granted that it is exercise and you have to make yourself get into the groove once you are in it there is no looking back. It strengthens your heart, relaxes and puts your mind at ease, increases your endurance and strength physically but when I am there it also is my time to be with the one who made it all possible. For me it is a choice to go and exercise but what motivates me to get there is that it becomes my personal time to reflect or meditate on what it is that bothers me. It gives me the time to properly organize my thoughts and and then after all that You hit the zone and it becomes so peaceful that you can acutually get away with thinking of nothing other than how blessed you feel just to have the ability to bet there. All of that while losing inches and fat!? Why wouldn't you? :)
- —Guest Chrissy
Makes me healthy
- Swimming is one of the best sport I could say, when i was young i usally have asthma attacks every month so my mom decided to send me to a swim school so that I can learn how to swim and after that time on I seldom have my asthma attacks because of swimming. Swimming also made me healthier and because of that I also enjoy scholarship benefits in my school for being a varsity in swimming.
- —czarinarosemarie
swimming good form
- for me its lk yoga or meditation,feel the water and swim lk a fish gives me and great experience in metal health.
- —Guest chsandrade
How swimming benefits me!
- Swimming is the greatest excerise I have ever done. I played woman's soccer for years and then I started playing water polo. I swam as a teenager all summer and now I am back into it. To keep in condition I swim with my team as well as on my own. It is the best cadiovasular excersize I have found for me. The last time I had my blood pressure checked my pulse rate was 57. For me I am going to keep swimming as long as I can. It is easier on your body, with soccer I had sore ankles, knees and back, with swimming I do not have that.
- —Guest Carol J Erickson
THE NEW WOMAN GUARANTEE
- My Uncle Chuck used to say the day you don't want to work out is the day you need it the most. Want to feel revived and rejuvenated? Swim. Even if it's only for 30 minutes, 40 minutes or 50 minutes, I offer my personal guarantee: you feel like you are reborn! I find it regulates my breathing, eases minor back ache and makes me feel glad to be alive. I am a klutz; I walk into cupboard doors and spill coffee daily. But I can unleash my inner fish! I joined a Masters group a few years ago not for competition but for fitness. I thought it was not for me. The aquatic jocks looked scary from the outside but when I got to know them it was fun. Even though I am in the slow lane, I am thrilled to be an aquatic turtle. I fight to be last! and laugh the whole way. Lesley Simpson
- —Guest LESLEY SIMPSON
Wow!
- I lost two inches waist size, and grew a good inch or more neck size, within 7 months of starting a swim regimin. Glad I started. Great aerobic exercise, without pounding your joints and bones to death. Best to all!
- —Guest Brian
Tick Tock, a novel by Gail Ramsey
- Hi Matt: Good or bad, I have been learning to swim for at least three years. I began with a real fear of the water. With each lesson, however, fear is less and confidence in the water and many other areas of my life enhanced! The thing is: I will never give up until I am diving from the clips alcoves in Bermuda!
- —Guest Gail Ramsey
Literally, swimming saved my life
- Mat, I've swimmed for over ten years now. Last november, I was swimming the "Whale Marathon", a 10 day event where the goal is to swimm the most accumulated meters. After my first 30 minutes, I started to feel pain on my torso and triceps, with a little shortness of breath. Took a rest and decided to suspend the session; after being out of the pool, I felt dizzy, and feeling something was wrong, headed to the hospital. Getting there, I got the news I was having a heart attack! Fortunatelly, I acted quickly and the doctors could act during the 3 hour window, putting a stent in my right carothide artery. The following day, when I was feeling very sad with the idea that swimming and exercising didn't prevent the infartation, my cardiologist said what I want to share: "No, swimming saved your life. Your heart was used to lack of oxigen and it prevented you from getting anxious and your heart to stop". This is indeed a great benefit of swimming, don't you think? Saving one's life, wow!
- —Guest Lalo Duron
dorothy-mccormick@sbcglobal.net
- I fell into a "rabbit-hole" playing golf a couple Novembers' ago in Texas. For a week I did not know if I would be able to walk, let alone golf again. When I got home to Mich, and after several steriod and pain shots, I started "treading water" rather than doing "laps" as I was accustomed to doing. Now I regularly "tread" for an hour at least 3 days a week, alternating my strokes after a 10 minute warm up. My technique then includes kicks, graduated speed "doggie paddling" working up to about 40 furious paddles in a 15 second block. I then cool down for at least a minute before going back to my furious paddling. After 10 minutes of that, I go to alternate power-walking in water to a stroke of 100, then a 100 second cool down. I then go to alternating breast-stroke, side-stroke, both sides, and back stoke. I repeat the above until the last 10 min. where I conclude with a slow "tread", about 20 strokes in 16 secs for 5 mins, then I "float on the water". I' play golf AGAIN!
- —Guest Dorothy- 70 in July
The Benefits of Swimming
- I feel swimming is my personal time just for me. I work to my potential and feel relaxed, tired and hungry when I am finished. Doing H2O (running in the water)is totally exhillerating and water aerobics is a great way to use all your muscles. I love to do water aerobics in the deep end with a belt around me working my core muscles better. I have noticed that weight loss is not happening but a total body workout is what you get. I thoroughly enjoy just being in the water. It can be very tranquil with only my thoughts. It's easy on the joints and the water resistance is like a mild weight training.
- —Guest Shershe
The zone
- When I haven't been swimming in a while, I find it easy to make excuses and hard to make time. But when I finally get to the pool, get in the water and start swimming, I realize how good it feels. I love to get into the zone where it's just me and the water -- and my normal day-to-day anxieties fall away. When I get out, I have a whole new perspective. The anxieties don't feel so big and I feel both relaxed and proud of myself for doing something healthy.
- —Guest Susan
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