#360fit: Swimming - The ultimate body workout

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  • Swimming has many benefits.

    Very few sports or activities allow you to exercise virtually your entire body without causing stress to key muscle groups and increasing the risk of injury.

    But swimming is one of the ultimate non-impact workouts that ticks these boxes and more.

    Whether you want to tone-up, burn calories, lose weight, strengthen your muscles or are in the recovery stage returning from injury, you can do yourself no harm by getting in the pool.

    Swimming gives you an element of freedom in your training and relaxation to the body as you very much control your own workload and intensity.

    Take front crawl or breastroke, for instance. It doesn’t matter if you are a strong, component, average or beginner swimmer, the strokes will work your legs, arms, shoulders, back and buttocks, while providing important cardio exercise whatever your pace.

    As mentioned, there’s very few exercises that can do this simultaneously.

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    The Talise Fitness Swimming School at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai.

    On top on this, regular lengths in the pool combined with stretching will help tone your body and certainly burn fat if you are looking to lose a few extra pounds. It’s good to increase your heart-rate and blood circulation and make your heart work harder and faster.

    Swimming also gives your lungs a much-needed boost and can help you breathe more freely and effectively.

    As I’ve found recently on the road to recovery back from a broken foot, it is the best way to try and maintain a good level of cardio fitness, body weight and neutralise joint and bone issues because you simply don’t feel the injury affecting you in the pool.

    I also found that isolating muscle groups, for example by kicking back and forwards holding onto the side of the pool, worked and strengthened areas I would have otherwise found difficult.

    Regular swimming, around two to threes time per week for a four-week period at Talise Fitness’s state-of-the-art pool facilities, definitely sped-up my recovery and I returned to running again in around seven weeks.

    Overall, swimming is a great sport to make part of your daily or weekly routine and you will soon feel the health benefits it provides.

    Click here to find out more information about membership with Talise Fitness. For queries on class timetables and for bookings please visit www.TaliseFitness.com or call +971 4 3666821.

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