With all the sports and activities that kids have to choose from today, why select swimming? Swimming is the largest and most successful                      program of guided fitness activity for children.  

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The reasons are many:

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Swimming develops high level aerobic endurance, the most important key to physical fitness.

Swimming is the best activity for promoting proportional muscular development because of its use of all the body's major muscle groups.

Swimming helps enhance children's natural flexibility by exercising all their major joints through full range of motion.

Swimming helps to regulate breathing, enhances flow of oxygen to muscles and reduces and prevents high blood pressure.

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Beyond your body. 

 

Swimming puts you in a different mind frame. It will help you decrease stress, increase alertness, improve mental functioning and even enhance your self-esteem. Swimming helps develop superior coordination because it requires combinations of complex muscle function, grace, and fluidity of movement.

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Gain, No pain.

 

There is no swimming exercise that will cause you pain. Swimming is a low impact exercise. Your bones and joints are never up against anything hard. In fact, swimming relaxes muscles and can be especially beneficial to people recovering from injury. Swimming is the most injury free of all children's sports. Swimming makes your body better able to resist disease and quicker to recover from illness or injury.

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Whatever the weather. 

 

In the summer, it’s great to swim in an outdoor pool. But swimming doesn’t leave you hostage to the weather, you can swim in an indoor pool come rain, sleet, hail, or snow.

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Swimming is a sport that promotes fitness and enjoyment for life.  

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Additional Benefits  

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In addition to physical development, children can develop greater intellectual competence by participating in a guided program of physical activity. Children can learn to be better learners from swimming. Developing and using swimming skills engages the thinking process. As new techniques are learned, children must develop and plan movement sequences, and they will explore new ideas. They will learn that greater progress results from using their creative talents. Self-expression will be enhanced, and their accomplishments in learning and using new skills will contribute to a stronger self-image.