Swimming is a beautiful sport (in fact, it is the most practiced in the world), able to produce countless benefits for the body and mind. Everyone does it for personal reasons: there are those who do it for fun, others who do it to get back into shape or to maintain their weight and those who just like the spirit of competition or even pure relaxation. In fact, swimming is also a great anti-stress activity, which allows us to relieve tension and anger, and can be done alone or with others.
It depends on how you want to experience swimming and your personal experience
Swimming alone is useful for finding your own dimension, meaning being more “intimately” in contact with the water by staying with your thoughts and facing challenges and objectives alone. However, water activities in a group allow us to make new friends and strengthen team spirit, collaboration and healthy sports competition. To each his own. But if you are a beginner, it is more than recommended to be followed by a qualified instructor, who will teach you good swimming techniques for the 4 main styles (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, dolphin). Once you manage to master at least two of the major styles, you can even begin to follow a training program alone, which you can do 2 or…