Swimming as a Popular and Healthy Summer Sport

Swimming as a Popular and Healthy Summer Sport

Besides the fact that swimming improves balance, coordination, and posture, it is also a flourishing physical activity to enhance cardio, burn calories, and gain muscle! The popularity of the sport is a result of open participation — everyone can learn how to swim! Swimming is a non-impact activity which helps those who have problems in their joints, knees, lower back, and those who are differently abled to improve their health, movement, and their accessibility.

While swimming, the nerves and muscles all over your body are working together to keep you afloat; to create a balanced effort in your underwater movements. Your muscles gain memory from swimming, which strengthens and improves posture for your spinal placement. Swimming throughout your life — young and old — matures into an ageless recreation where your body will feel young forever!

Swimming is an excellent way to burn off calories to obtain your summer body! NutriStrategy has provided a list per weight of how many calories one can lose for an hour’s worth of swim time of a certain stroke, such as freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, etc. In addition to being a healthy pastime, swimming is also an essential life skill for one to have. Many of our summer activities include the popular destinations of outdoor pools, lakes, and beaches for summer fun. Coast2Coast offers swimming lessons such as private, mobile lessons at your residence, or semi-private and group lessons at one of our participating community pools in Toronto, North York, and Thornhill to get you healthy and educated for your summer of swimming.

Learning to swim not only promotes a healthy lifestyle and fun under the sun but gives you a tool to relax your body and mind in a low-stress environment. We live in a stressful world and what better way to let go then to hop in the water and kick your way to happiness! Letting your body go and jumping in the water is sometimes the best medicine to relieve yourself and enjoy the summer in a relaxing and restored setting. Contact Coast2Coast to get trained by a Canadian Red Cross Swim Instructor that will give you the essential abilities to be healthy, active, and stress-free all year round!