Health and Fitness Tips

Swimming and its Benefits:

• Swimming is a good exercise. Swimming involves the use of almost all the muscles required for movement, without the weight of your body pounding you with each move like when you are walking or running to work harder
• Regular swimming will build your muscle strength, endurance, and cardio-vascular fitness.The longer you swim, the more your endurance and speed will improve
• Without overworking the heart, swimming improves the body’s use of oxygen and increases lung function
• Swimming stimulates circulation
• Swimming promotes proper breathing
• Swimming helps to combat the aging process
• Swimming burns calories at about 3 calories a mile per pound of bodyweight and improves one’s ability to control and maintain a healthy weight
• Swimming is fantastic for toning the upper arms, shoulders and legs. The best strokes for whole body toning are the freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke
• When you swim, cool water lower your body temperature, so that you don’t get hot and sticky as when you do other forms of exercise or sports
• Swimming is more than a fun sport and a way to stay healthy

Tennis / Badminton / Squash and its Benefits:

• Improves cardiovascular health; a game of squash will see you running, leaping and diving for the ball
• Increase strength and fitness
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Increase flexibility and strength in the back
• Promote good coordination, agility and flexibility
• Build hand–eye coordination

Other benefits:

Squash also has many other benefits including:

• Improved general and psychological wellbeing
• Greater self-confidence and self-esteem
• Better social skills and an opportunity to make new friends
• Improved concentration
• Stress release

Strength Training and its Benefits:

• Healthy bones through exercise
• Great posture through muscle conditioning
• Fewer injuries as muscles are stronger
• Exercise can raise your metabolism
• Weight training leads to better sports performance
• Faster rehab with strong muscles
• Improved balance
• Strength training prevents obesity
• Being strong can make life more fun
• Good exercise prevents a number of ailments associated with aging