10 Health Benefits Of Swimming

Whether it’s for leisure, pleasure or competition, swimming is a great way to improve your health and wellbeing!


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What do you love most about swimming? Share your favorite benefit of the sport in the comments!

[potatohunter]

I'm quite stressed on a day to day basis. But when I swim, all my worries fade away. I can only think of the water.

[aligholami]

another amazing thing about swimming is that it’s the only sport we can do it while our body is in horizontal position. As a result out heart gets rid of gravity and pump blood easier to all part of the body and our performance increase by 20%.

[zakurhako]

quit heavy drinking two months ago and decided to pick up swimming in a local pool. life changer. i look much better already and feel much happier

[Jajukween]

Swimming is definitely a stress reliever also floating on your back & looking at the clouds ☁️ is soo relaxing 😌

[alisonbittner]

I'm 12 and I have swam since I was 6 months old. I started a swim team when I was 8 and have gotten a lot better. Swimming has helped me in many ways. It helps you get fit and it help with mental health and it really helped me believe in myself. I hope this helps anyone and I recommend swimming.

[netsirk]

“If you can control your diet after a swim” 😭 that cracked me up! We swimmers know how hungry we get after a good workout!

[sarahsmile]

I am 37 and used to swim in high school and throughout my entire childhood I was a fish. I have been training in the gym for the past 15 years but recently picked up swimming again and I forgot my love for the water. I just zone out when I'm in the pool.

[brianhill]

Coronavirus has closed the public swimming pools and caused us swimmers to realize how much we like and need swimming.

[pavolp.]

I can confirm the mood boost! I felt like sh*t after work, then went swimming for an hour and I was happy, like really HAPPY. It felt great.

[nannettemackenzie]

am 73 years old beenswimmming about one years it drops my blood pressure i like the sprints sys and swim one mile every day if possiable love to freestyle, backstroke every other day work out on a light weights. keep the faith swim for life.

[skyguy]

Yeah there's a reason people say "swimmer's body" and not soccer player's body

[TheGilbalfas]

You forgot to mention it helps flexibility. Unlike gym training.

[jimmyvanzeno]

100% spot on dude!
I’m 51 and took up freestyle swimming 3 times a week since November 2023. Lost 7kg, feel amazing, ALL of what you just pointed out, I’m a singer as well and I’ve found it’s helped me with my stamina immensely!! I Look better, I feel better.
I still need to cut back on the red wine and vaping but…I’m working on it 😄
Swimming has 100% improved my life.

[reviraciones]

This is the only sport that makes you feel and be better after finishing a workout in other sports you feel tired or even injured!

[EuiHwanP]

I started taking swimming lessons this month to get over a lifelong fear of water, and it's shocking how something that I've feared so much can put me in such a good mood!

[lemontree]

Being a swimmer since a kid..left for hiit training at home now that i got plantar fasciitis i went back to swimming..it s a whole different world of training..nothing hurts and when i got out of water i feel light as a feather and rejuvinated mentally and physically..top sport for me!! Ciao from italy!

[marilynlegaspi]

I am 63..I just started swimming recently bec of my backpain.. And it makes me feel better..so my ortho doc told me today to do it 2x week. Thanks for the good info on the benefits of swimming

[robohippy]

I have used exercise to help maintain stress since my teenage years.... My workouts are 'mental health Also, it was huge in prepping for and recovery from bilateral hip replacement and one knee replacement. I got through rehab in half the required 'therapy' sessions because I was swimming so much, and my rehab time back to normal was way ahead of any one else...

[ichigo]

swimming is fun. i notice my shoulders getting broader