Swimming For Exercise Swimming for exercise is an excellent way to tone up all over without putting any strain on your joints. For this reason swimming for exercise is especially suitable for people who are unable to do regular land based exercise like running or jogging. Also when you are swimming you will benefit from water therapy. Water makes your body seem almost weightless, so no matter how large you are, or how unfit you are, you will be able to move your arms and legs easier because the water reduces your body weight to 20% of your normal weight. This weightlessness virtually eliminates the potential risk of back, knee and other muscular injuries that are common in high impact land activities. The water also adds resistance to your movements and the faster you move the more resistance you will get from the water. Because water offers both buoyancy and resistance, swimming for exercise is the same as doing two forms of exercise at once. Even just raising and lowering your arms in water has the same toning effects as doing arm curls and arm presses, but the difference is you don’t have to go to a gym and use two separate machines. Swimming For Fat Burning Exercise Swimming for exercise burns fat at the rate of 790 calories per hour which makes it the most efficient of all the fat burning exercises including running, jogging and cycling. The drawback is that whereas running, jogging and cycling produce intense heat and continue to burn calories even after you have stopped exercising, swimming does not. The water keeps your body cool so you will only burn calories while you are swimming but if you are unable to do strenuous land exercises then swimming for exercise will be extremely beneficial for you. Swimming For Exercise Benefits Swimming for exercise is one of the fastest ways of improving your general strength, stamina, cardiovascular fitness, breathing and circulation. Continual water pressure against the legs and arms, for example, assists your blood circulation by exerting muscle pressure on your veins which helps in returning blood to the heart and lungs. Regular swimming will lower your blood pressure and cholesterol levels. These benefits alone will greatly reduce the risk of you suffering from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Swimming also reduces the risk of breast cancer, osteoporosis, and miscarriage. Pregnant women in particular find swimming an effective way of keeping fit because the buoyancy helps them exercise further into their term whereas most land exercises would be impossible for them. Recent researchers have concluded that pregnant women who swim suffer 75% less miscarriages or stillbirths compared with those who jogged or didn't exercise at all. Swimming can also increase bone mass in older women thereby reducing the risk of osteoporosis. Because the heart is not over worked while swimming yet your... | 