Find out all the cardiovascular benefits of swimming!
Swimming is the most beneficial sport of all for both your body and mind: it keeps you fit and improves your overall health, particularly your cardio-respiratory system.
Various studies (one of the most important of which was carried out by Texas University and published in the “American Journal of Cardiology”) show that swimming regularly improves the heart’s vascular function and lowers your blood pressure.
Researchers reached this conclusion after studying the results of forty volunteers with sedentary lifestyles. After three months’ swimming, various benefits were noted: their systolic blood pressure dropped and their carotid artery became more flexible enabling it to pump more effectively.
You heart will smile and thank you for it!
Swimming is mainly an aerobic activity with various definite benefits on a cardiovascular level.
If you swim regularly and consistently (I advise twice or three times-a-week), your heart muscle gets used to consuming less oxygen and wasting less energy, which means it beats more slowly.
As well as this major benefit, swimming will also have the following effects on your heart:
- It will get bigger
- The capacity of the left ventricle will be increased.
- It will…
