how you can benefit from swimming

Swimming in my opinion is maybe the greatest workout a person can do. It stetches and builds up every muscle in your body along with stamina. To me it is way better then running or sometimes a better workout then lifiting weights because in running your just using your legs and no upper body, and each stroke you take is like dragging a 10 pound weight. Their are so many different strokes one can do to make it difficult so then you can work on every part of your body and make an amazing workout for yourself.

In high school I was on the swim team and at first i hated it. Every lap I took i swallowed a gallon of water and i would go abolsutly nowhere. But now, after 2 years of the swim team I almost cant get enough of it. I love just going down to the pool and knowing that i can do something fun yet workout at the same time. The pool here at Cortland is up at night so you can usualy find me down there just swimming a few laps, nothing crazy or fast but just doing it to keep in shape.

I was so excited to see that Michael Phelps did such an amazing job at the olympics and how he just completely dominated. He really showed the world the work ethic it takes to become such a great swimmer becuase it is a difficult sport to master. He made everything just look so easy and simple it was almost like you knew he was going ot win even if he was losing a race by a couple of seconds. you knew nothing stood in his way and he was going to do whatever it took to win that race. Michael Phelps has almost re-invented swimming and has put it back on the map.