IMPORTANCE OF SWIMMING

Right from the beginning of time man has been engaged in several physical activities to pass time in a positive manner. Sometimes those activities became the cause of physical pain and as a result the person was unable to perform his routine duties properly. In those old times there was one activity that was done by just a small number of people only for the sake of use in emergency situations, this activity is called swimming. It took centuries and countless accidents of boats and ship wrecks to learn the importance of swimming.

Even after the awareness about the need to learn swimming started, there were very few people who were interested in learning the skill. There were times when only men used to swim. With passage of time even the women started to learn swimming. Till now though the number of people interested in swimming is on constant increase but the interest of people in swimming is still low as compared to other sports. If we see at the number of swimmers in a single country the results of the super power America tell us a story as it is only 20% of the population who actually know how to swim.

SWIMMING FOR HELP

Though it is counted as one of the sports swimming is also a skill that should be learned to save the lives of others as well as that of your own. There are incidents reported where the death toll was high because of lack of knowledge among people about breathing in water or keeping ones head above water till the help arrives.

There are certain Alle soorten zwemshorts voor heren en dames situations in which the need to know swimming is felt with even more intensity rather than in normal situations, these situations where everyone needs a swimmer for help like floods ,tsunami and other rainstorms.

SWIMMING THE BEST EXERCISE

In today’s modern era swimming is considered the best exercise ever as it involves all the muscles and bones of the body. As a complete body exercise swimming not only strengthens your heart and lungs it also gives shape to your body by toning the muscles. Swimming is the only exercise that does not need any expensive equipment and can be done by people of all ages and genders. Swimming is a blessing for people with bone problems as well as the overweight people. It is the only exercise that can be done by all those patients who are not allowed to do any other exercise due to their health problems.