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- swimming

injuries

Even though you use a powerful exercise in swimming the water prevents damage to the ankles, joints and legs. It's quite common for people to get a cripple on their back because they don't open the chest enough. Injuries in swimming are not common except strain injuries in shoulders due to a lot of strain on the shoulders

good and bad impacts

Swimming has good impacts on the vascular system and reduces the risk of heart disease when you get old. Swimming is a very good exercise for your body and you burn a lot of calories. Movement will be lighter, although there is a certain resistance in every move. Breaststroke and crawl train all the main muscles of the body. Swimming keeps your body agile. Blood currents to the heart become lighter and the heart pumps more blood to your body which means that the heart rate is lower than on land. If girls start training sports like soccer, handball and basketball young it will have good effects on their bones but swimming doesn't have these effects. Swimming is often recommended for people with injuries to get full recovery. In swimming it doesn't matter how you look because swimming is for almost everyone.

equipment

It's important to wear a good swimsuit and boys can't wear shorts but instead they have to use swimming pants, it's good to have swimming glasses, kids with long hair have to use elastic or swimming hats. On some exercises you use aids like fins and flippers.

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