It’s a good workout for delicate people.
Since swimming is a low-impact workout, it’s great for people in delicate conditions. This includes injuries, pregnancy, and other restrictions such as age or physical limitations. In fact, water yoga and water jogging have only increased in popularity throughout the years for people with joint pain. It is also used for physical therapy or rehabilitation.
You can take 9400 baths with all the water found in an Olympic-sized pool.
Olympic sized pool volume is around 660,000 gallons of water. An Olympic-size swimming pool is approximately 164 feet long, 82 feet wide, and 6 feet deep. The average bathtub can only contain 70 gallons of water. It’s only fitting, because…
…Swimmers sweat underwater.
It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves. Why don’t fish drown? Do fish pee? Similarly, do swimmers sweat? Yes, in fact, they do. Sweating is the biological function of the body to cool itself. During intense workouts, the body will perspire even in the water. However, it’s barely noticeable even to the swimmers themselves since the water washes the sweat off.
The youngest competitive swimmer was 10 years old.
Alzain Tareq of Bahrain became the world’s youngest competitive swimmer to ever debut in a world championship. She competed against swimmers twice her age for the 50m butterfly, which she finished in 41.13 seconds.
Surprisingly, children can learn how to swim as early as two months of age. A majority of drowning casualties are children, so teaching them how to swim will reduce this risk. In fact, drowning risks reduced by 88% in 2009 when children between the ages of 1-4 participated in swimming lessons in the U.S.
Swimmers use every major muscle group in their bodies.
Swimming is a total body workout that engages all the major muscles in the body such as the chest, back, arm, foot, and leg muscles.
More specifically:
The latissimus dorsi muscle or “lats” are the muscles in your middle back. Push your hands together in front of the lower part of your chest, and you’ll flex your latissimus dorsi muscles. Lats are vital to your ability to pull and swivel through the water to take breaths.