What are the pros and cons of swimming?

Because swimming can allow people to find a cool place in the hot summer and can also help lose weight, many people now go to the swimming pool to swim in their spare time to relax their body and mind. However, everything has its pros and cons. If we can make good use of it, we can expand the advantages and avoid some adverse effects. So, what are the advantages and disadvantages of swimming?

benefit:

1. Strengthen physical fitness. Enhance immunity. Cool down in summer and keep out the cold in winter.

2. Enhance heart and lung functions.

3. Shape the body. It can make the body healthy and fit. Children who swim regularly can grow taller. Thin people can become strong (including body shape) through swimming exercise. Obese people can also lose weight (tighten the abdomen and buttocks) by swimming properly.

4. Make muscles firm.

5. It is good for the spine, especially for people with spinal diseases. When doing other exercises, the spine needs to bear a certain amount of pressure due to the body's own weight. However, swimming is good because of the buoyancy of water. In addition, the body is in a lying position during exercise, which allows the spine to move without pressure, which is conducive to returning to its original position. Therefore, many doctors recommend that patients with spinal diseases participate in swimming appropriately to assist in recovery.

6. Exercise the coordination, strength and flexibility of hands and feet.

7. Anaerobic training can increase muscle, while aerobic training can burn fat and achieve the goal of losing weight.

8. Swimming regularly can effectively promote blood circulation in the waist and abdomen. Women who suffer from dysmenorrhea can swim regularly (except during menstruation) to make the dysmenorrhea disappear.

9. Swimming breaststroke regularly can enhance sexual function.

harm:

1. Prone to otitis media.

2. Easy to be infected with infectious diseases (mainly various skin infectious diseases).

It can be seen that the benefits of swimming are still very many, and the advantages of swimming outweigh the disadvantages. If you can protect your ears when swimming, avoid sewage flowing into the ear canal, reduce swimming in environments with poor water quality, and never swim in unfamiliar environments, you can avoid the adverse effects of swimming.