What are the benefits and functions of swimming?

Nowadays, people pay great attention to the maintenance of their bodies, not only in terms of food supplements, but also in terms of exercise. Exercise can not only help people maintain a slim and healthy figure, but also enhance their physical fitness and make them have a strong body. Running, skipping rope, playing basketball, playing football, etc. are all sports that people love, and swimming is also one of people's hobbies. But what are the benefits of swimming? Next, the editor will tell you what benefits swimming brings to people.

Swimming can ensure life safety. The earth is covered with rivers, lakes and oceans, and humans inevitably have to deal with water in life. Whether you actively go into the water to swim, play or do water work, or passively fall into the water or have an accident while on a boat, your life will be threatened if you cannot swim. If you can swim, your survival will be guaranteed. You can not only save yourself, but also save others. Therefore, the ability to swim has become one of the important means to ensure survival.

Swimming can also keep fit

When swimming, all organs of the human body are exercised due to the water pressure, resistance, buoyancy and lower water temperature. The thermal conductivity of water is about 25 times greater than that of air. It has been determined that the amount of heat given off by a human body when staying in 12-degree water for 4 minutes is equivalent to the amount of heat given off by a person on land for 1 hour. Regular swimming exercises can improve the body's ability to regulate temperature and adapt to changes in external temperature. In addition, muscle activity during swimming consumes calories, so the human body must replenish calories as quickly as possible, thereby promoting the enhancement of metabolism in the body.

Regular swimming exercises can effectively enhance physical fitness, so swimming is also a means of preventing and curing diseases. When swimming, due to the stimulation of cold water, long-term exercise can enhance the body's ability to adapt to changes in the external environment, resist cold and prevent diseases, so regular swimmers are less likely to catch a cold; due to the buoyancy of water and the body lying flat on the water surface, the spine is fully stretched, which is beneficial for preventing scoliosis caused by sitting or standing for a long time; due to the water flow and wave breaking, the whole body surface produces a special massage effect, because it can help and promote functional recovery, it is very helpful for the rehabilitation of paralyzed patients and disabled people. It is reported that regular swimming has obvious therapeutic effects on people with weak bodies and many patients with chronic diseases, such as chronic gastrointestinal diseases, neurasthenia, habitual constipation, chronic bronchitis, asthma, etc.

Judging from the above information, there are really many benefits of swimming. Swimming is indeed a great sport and it helps our body a lot, but you should also pay attention to swimming in a regular swimming pool area, otherwise it is easy to get into accidents. Children should not go swimming alone without an adult to avoid accidents.