Swimming is one of the best exercises that improves fitness and also tones your body. There are no age barriers and people is different age will be able to do the aquatic exercises in swimming pools, as for gym exercises children under 16 won’t be allowed in, swimming is one exercise where there is no age barrier.
There are plenty of exercises, which can be done in a swimming pool such as abdominal, biceps, hamstrings, shoulders and other exercises for different parts of your body. At the gym to do these various exercises, you will have to use different machines, from cardio to muscle building make is going to be twice as hard than swimming. You can work out various parts of muscles by doing one stroke in swimming.
But if you are a first timer or have come back after lengthy time off then you shouldn’t over do it at the swimming pool or the gym as overdoing can cause some serious damage to your body/health. I believe swimming definitely is one of the best form of exercise for everyone and anyone.
Swimming is also used for aquatic therapy, for people who have asthma, broken bones, cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes, joint replacement, multiple sclerosis, spinal injuries, stress reduction, weight management and chronic pain of muscles/joints.
But bare is mind that aquatic therapy is completely different than aquatic exercise. Aquatic therapy focuses on techniques and healing of your body, whereas aquatic exercise is done when you are already in good health and focusing on strength, weight loss and endurance.
I hope the above gives you some sort of idea on what sort of exercise is needed to lose weight, increase your strength or to tone your body.
And if you have a swimming pool, good thing about this is you can do all those exercise at home. Swimming pools are being built these days as a form of investment. Please also bare in mind for swimming pools there are swimming pool equipments and swimming pool chemicals to keep up the costs for maintaining your swimming pool and they will be around as long as you own your pool.
