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Swimming Benefits - Articles
The Benefits of Swimming
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Vionna J.
Posted
Wed 10 Jun 2009 5:47pm
So, if you are wondering why you should bother adding swimming to your regular fitness routine, consider these benefits:
-Like yoga, swimming encourages proper breathing... fitness while swimming.
-Swimming improves the body’s use of oxygen and increases lung function.
With all of these benefits, why not give it a try? For more benefits
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The Many Fitness Benefits of Swimming
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Mark D.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:34pm
Swimming is a fun way to vary your workout routine and keep your body from adapting to your normal workouts. You can avoid fitness plateaus by changing up your routine every two or three weeks. So, let's look at some of the benefits of swimming:
1. Swimming provides great cardiovascular conditioning for your heart and lungs. It is a great
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WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF SWIMMING?
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CoachKennedy
Posted
Wed 28 Oct 2009 10:31pm
flexibility?
f you said yes to one of these questions then you better start stretching now and dive in the pool!
Swimming is recommended for the elderly to have a healthy and fit... physical activity for those who love to exercise, and it’s also important for physical therapy. A lot of athletes from different sports are finding swimming to be a great way
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Benefits of Swimming for Weight Loss
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Tom H.
Posted
Wed 23 Jun 2010 9:41am
exercise five times per week to encourage weight loss. U.S. Masters Swimming notes that swimming is a fun, healthy and challenging form of exercise appropriate for all fitness and experience levels. In addition to helping strengthen your heart, improve flexibility and enhance your mood, swimming encourages weight loss.
A pound of weight is equivalent to 3,500
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Swim swim swim
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Amy G.
Posted
Wed 22 Oct 2008 6:15pm
I think I'm swimming in my sleep now. The little sleep I'm getting, that is. Last night's training swim took me an hour and 20 minutes to complete. Back and forth and back and forth and back and repeat. This morning in our coach's weekly email we were told that we should register for the 1 mile swim at the Aqua Challenge at Lake Del Valle
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Swim, swim, swim!
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Kathy ..
Posted
Tue 22 Jul 2008 8:21pm
Today I got up and went to the gym to begin my new swim routine.
I picked up a great new bathing suit at TJ Maxx the other day. A Nike for just $20! It worked perfectly. I did half an hour.
I forgot how much I love to swim, and can you believe it is a great calorie burner? Not only that but after the brutality of running on my ankles, legs
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Just Keep Swimming, swimming, swimming...
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Francine R.
Posted
Wed 20 Oct 2010 7:09pm
We roll merrily along as usual. Micah's birthday party has morphed - I got him to narrow his list to about 11 other kids, and I found a decently affordable magician, so we are having it at home. If he really really wants a pinata, it'll be out in the driveway, hanging from the bedroom window. No more dents in my walls, please.
Sofia started he ...
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How to actually swim Across the Atlantic Ocean
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Roman M.
Posted
Wed 11 Feb 2009 2:40pm
feet of endurance.
She did!
And better yet she used the publicity that her swim generated for a worth cause: The Volvic' s "Drink 1, Give 10" program to benefit UNICEF....
At that rate, she would have had to swim about 112 miles a day."
The newspaper also did the math for the last Frenchmen to claim that he swam across the Atlantic and it also did not add
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Swimming with Autism
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JohnL
Posted
Wed 01 Jul 2009 12:00am
In “‘Benefits Go Beyond Sports’: Autistic Children Find an Outlet In Swimming,” Bill Oram of the Washington Post reports about the social benefits of participating in sports.
Justin Etherton, 13, a swimmer in the Montgomery County Swim League, is autistic. Swimming provides him a social outlet, and has been “the best thing that’s ever
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