Swimming

Is swimming enough exercise?

This is an excellent form of exercise that can provide a full-body workout. It’s a low-impact exercise that can be beneficial for people of all ages and fitness levels. Swimming helps improve cardiovascular health, build muscle, and improve flexibility and balance.

Whether swimming is enough exercise depends on your fitness goals and personal preferences. If you’re looking to build significant amounts of muscle, swimming alone may not be enough, but it can be an excellent complement to other forms of exercise, making your efforts even more effective.

Benefits compared to other forms of exercise

What will happen if you swim (30 minutes) every day?

1. Conditioning of muscles
   1. The water reduces the stress on our joints while the muscles are working to their fullest.
   2. The condition of all the muscles in your body will improve. Because when you are swimming, all the muscles are involved. Some muscles that are not often used in day to day activities get more involved during swimming because the body is in a horizontal position.
2. Some experts in the scientific community think that swimming is the best way to get a full-body workout. Swimming provides a low-impact method of burning calories and elevating your heart rate.
3. Mental Health Benefits
   1. Great effect on your psycho-emotional state. It will put you in a good mood.
   2. Staying active is one of the best ways to improve your overall mental health. Getting lost in vigorous exercise allows you to forget your troubles and focus on something productive.
   3. Recreational swimming is even better for mental health than other forms of exercise. This is because spending time in moving water produces an abundance of negative ions that energize you and make you feel happy.
4. Great For Heart Health
   1. Significant improvement in your cardio-vascular system.
   2. Swimming is one of the best forms of cardiovascular exercise. It is not as abrasive as running and allows you to activate almost all of your muscle groups.
   3. Going for a swim each day will help your blood flow and overall cardiovascular health. If you are worried about your heart, swimming is one of the best activities to strengthen it.
5. Significant improvement in your respiratory system.
6. Swimming Helps You Build Lean Muscle
   1. Unlike lifting heavy weights or engaging in other strength-based exercises, swimming helps you build lean muscle. You can shed pounds and downsize your waistline much easier participating in swimming than other sports.
7. The posture improves.
   1. Because swimming improves the stabilizing muscles of the body.
8. Calorie consumption.

Swimming - Pacing

Swimming on the back

1. Being able to swim on the back is important. Helps in many situations.
2. When you are in the sea, if your goggles leak water, or if you are tired, by turning on your back, you can get your goggles fixed or have a break to recover.
3. If we cannot swim on our back, it will be uncomfortable and not safe.

Swimming after eating

In most cases, there’s no need to wait at least 30 minutes after eating to go for a swim, doctors say.

That old warning stems from worry that people might drown or struggle because blood will be diverted to their full stomachs instead of their muscles.

In reality, people still have plenty of blood flowing to their muscles after eating.

The old warning can actually cause complications. It’s important to quench your thirst before swimming, especially on sunny days. People often don’t realize they can still get dehydrated, which can lead to muscle cramps.

We sweat when we are in the water, we just don’t appreciate the water loss.

So, jumping in the pool or ocean after eating is no big deal for recreational swimming. But people planning to swim laps or exercise may want to let their food digest to avoid cramps, just like they’d wait before jogging.

Also, swimming after tossing back a few beers is risky. People tend to be more aggressive, less coordinated and prone to bad choices when they swim after consuming alcohol. Those factors all can cause problems when dealing with strong currents or ocean tides at the beach this summer.

You’re just not going to be as sharp.

References

1. https://www.swimfitforlife.com/single-post/become-a-better-and-faster-swimmer-by-nailing-the-basics
2. https://www.totalimmersion.net/total-immersion-training
3. https://www.totalimmersion.net/ti-core-principles
4. https://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/practice/
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppY1lHIa5nI&list=PLVOspl3tsfnrgkVTWoAKnLQPnq_3rg0HR&index=2

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1. Pocket of air while breathing

2. How to use Garmin watch to help with swimming?

3. Exercise

4. How to improve swimming?

   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvE_vsc8Jo&t=120s
   2. Technique
      1. Head position and Body position
      2. Swimming - Rotation
      3. Swimming - The pull
      4. Swimming - The kick
   3. Breathing
      1. Swimming - Breathing under water
      2. Cadence
      3. Mechanics
   4. Training
      1. Break it up
      2. Get fit plan
      3. Test sets

5. Exercise - shoulders

   1. Pull-ups are in the top three exercises for swimmers. If we get better at pull-ups, we will see a direct impact on our speed and endurance in the water because the pulling pattern in most strokes is closely related to the pull-up movement.
   2. Swimmers who can perform multiple and technically sound repetitions (usually more than five) of pull-ups don’t experience shoulder problems.

TODO

What are the next steps after learning basic swimming?