What muscles does swimming exercise?

Swimming is not only a competitive sport, but also a national sports and fitness exercise. Especially in coastal areas, almost everyone can swim. There are many benefits of swimming. For example, it can exercise a person's internal organs, especially the heart and lungs. In addition, swimming can also shape the body and make the person's body more fit. At the same time, swimming can cultivate a person's strong will.

Swimming is the skill of floating on the water by one's own power and moving forward in the water by using the movements of one's own limbs. Swimming can be divided into competitive swimming and practical swimming. Competitive swimming is the second largest event in the Olympic Games. It includes four swimming styles: butterfly stroke, backstroke (also known as backstroke), breaststroke and freestyle (also known as crawl/freestyle), as well as synchronized swimming.

Swimming is a full-body exercise. There are many swimming strokes, and it is difficult to say which muscles are targeted. If we talk about the swimming strokes: Butterfly stroke: the pectoralis major, dorsal dilators, and rectus abdominis are more exerted. Backstroke: The back dilators and quadriceps are used more. Breaststroke: gluteus maximus, quadriceps, dorsi extensors, triceps Freestyle: biceps, triceps, trapezius, gluteus maximus.

But it should be emphasized that the above are only slightly biased, and no matter which swimming style you use, it involves the whole body. The muscles developed through swimming training are more streamlined and not blocky and distinct. If you want to build muscle, it's best to use equipment. The exercise value of swimming is also particularly good for the cardiovascular and pulmonary blood vessels.

If a person swims for a long time, the most obvious thing is that the muscles in the shoulders and back become prominent, giving people a very broad feeling. If you want to build muscle through swimming, you must persevere. People who swim regularly have much higher explosive power and endurance of their muscles than normal people. Not only that, swimming can also increase a person's lung capacity and increase myocardial contractility.