The Benefits of Gratitude
Swimming can be hard. It can get repetitive and boring to have to work on the same stroke consistency and work equally on your turns and drills. The feeling of swimming everyday and not getting any faster can lead you to feeling stuck in a rut. It can be hard to make it to the end of the workout without feeling like long distance swimming sucks and is a waste of time.
This is where a simple daily practice can have a big impact.
Gratitude helps you appreciate what you have in life. It helps you recognize everything the world has given you, and not take anything for granted. Instead of dwelling on all the reasons why you can’t accomplish something, you see the things that you can do in a new light.
There are many ways to practice gratitude. “Writing in a gratitude diary about things you are grateful for can increase happiness. ” Likewise, if you don’t want to write it down, try saying it out loud to someone in your life whom you feel gratitude towards, or include a daily gratitude practice as part of your swimming routine.
It will help you sleep longer and better.
Another big benefit of swimming is that you can sleep better at night. A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania discovered that swimming can improve your quality of sleep and, consequently, your mood the following day.
This study measured the effects of a swimming session lasting 50-60 minutes on ten healthy individuals and two mild sleepers. After a non-extensive warm-up of about 15 minutes, the group put on fins and swimsuits and then swam for 50-60 minutes at a pace that allowed the easy breathing pattern. They were then tested for sleep latency (how long it takes to fall asleep). The results showed that after a 50-minute swim, the participants had on average 19 minutes better sleep latency compared to not swimming. The follow-up was the following day when subjects used a daily electronic diary to grade how much they slept the night before and how well and consistently they slept. These results also suggested that swimming before bed decreased sleep latency. These findings are significant because sleep has been proven to be an important stress reducer, among other things.
It will improve your overall health .
Swimming is such a great exercise that it can benefit everyone. It’s gentle but high intensity, getting some major muscles without putting too much pressure on them.
Swimming is such a great exercise that it can benefit everyone. It’s gentle but high intensity, getting some major muscles without putting too much pressure on them. It improves cardiovascular fitness. One of the best ways to increase your cardiovascular fitness. Swimming is considered to be the best exercise to get fitter and burn fat.
One of the best ways to increase your cardiovascular fitness. Swimming is considered to be the best exercise to get fitter and burn fat. It will get you in awesome shape. Swimming improves muscle tone and builds lean muscle mass, which is essential for a strong heart. It also tones up the arms, legs, torso and glutes.
Swimming improves muscle tone and builds lean muscle mass, which is essential for a strong heart. It also tones up the arms, legs, torso and glutes. It’ll help you relax. Being in the water will make you feel calmer and more relaxed than you could ever be on land.
Being in the water will make you feel calmer and more relaxed than you could ever be on land. It will help you sleep better. Swimming uses your large muscle groups and exercise is proven to make it easier to fall asleep.
It will improve your mood and punch stress in the face .
This is the easiest way to swim faster!
Somewhere along the lines of growing up, swimming became associated with doing the back stroke. If you really had to swim, you did it so that you could be like everyone else, compete in races, and win medals.
All of this focus on races and medals stripped swimming of the reason why people first started doing it in the first place. It’s meant to be a healthy and fun way to stay active and connect with nature. It’s meant to be done without feeling competitive or pressured.
Swimming should be about having a good time and building the strength, endurance, and body awareness that are the bases of any good workout. That’s not to say I don’t like competitions and racing. I just prefer to do those activities outside of the pool.
It’s important to remember that swimming is about having fun. You’ll work harder without feeling the pressure of a race. The added benefit is that the more fun you have, the more you’ll be able to loosen up and really connect with nature.
Put It Into Place
As you develop your swimming fitness, there will be situations in the pool that will cause you stress. Sometimes those situations are out of your control. For example, you get pushed into the lane line and almost stop breathing and going in the wrong direction, or maybe someone in your lane keeps kicking you as they do their flip turns. Or maybe you just miss the turn, causing you to have to struggle to make another lap.
These situations will cause some action to be taken by the person or people creating the problem, whether the action taken is by you (not fixing the problem) or by someone else (like a lane-worker or lifeguard). However, there are three other things you can do to respond to these situations.