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Kids love playing in water and many parents are busy enrolling their kids into swimming classes. Well, if you were to ask yourself, is this just a trend or are parents actually aware of the benefits that swimming can confer on their kids? Besides health benefits, swimming is an asset when it comes to safety. Kids must be encouraged to take up swimming at an early age while their body is still flexible enough to adopt to different strokes.
Swimming is a fulfilled aerobics that involves movement of several body parts, making it is an ideal fitness exercise to stay fit and healthy.
Physical health
Swimming is an excellent workout for the heart and lungs. Stamina, body flexibility, muscle toning, balance and body strength can be easily achieved by practicing swimming on a regular basis. Swimming is good for lubricating joints. This aerobic form of exercise puts stress more on several body parts and helps exercise legs, arms, joints thus burning calories in case your kid is overweight. Thus, swimming at an early age can also help to reduce the risk of health problems such as juvenile diabetes arising due to obesity.
Emotional health
Swimming gives a sense of mental peace and kids find it refreshing to swim after a tiring day at school or from play. A sense of confidence and self-esteem is built within kids, and this in turn helps to combat depression or mood swings if your kid suffers from any. Swimming classes held in groups allow kids to mingle with other children of similar age and ability; this in turn helps them to move along socially with other kids. They learn from each other and strive to achieve and perform better than their peers with a competitive streak, which gradually increases their self-esteem and boosts confidence in their overall personality.
Safety and life skill
Lifeguards, a certified coach and a safe environment is the ideal way to practice this lifesaving skill. There are possibilities in lifetime that your kid may come in contact with water. To avoid the danger of drowning or the intent to rescue someone drowning, this lifesaving skill will always come in handy to your children. Moreover, there are probabilities that they may have social circles that are into pool parties, going to the beach and involved in various other water activities, swimming can help them mingle with such groups.
Water safety guidelines are not be ignored, that can be learnt and understood from a professionally trained master. To pick one very useful guide would be to avoid swimming during a lightning storm. Lightning is electricity; electricity and water combined together may prove to be fatal. However, proper training under a certified coach and appropriate guidance from a personal trainer will help you decide the best for your kid as far as swimming is concerned. There are various fitness studios that have swimming pools and swimming trainers, and you can easily find them online. So, impart this lifesaving and enjoyable skill to your kid!
