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Importance of learning to swim
Oct 10 2022
Swimming is the only sport which could save your life and is a tremendous amount of fun for all people of all ages and children especially, enjoy getting into the water. But it is important to swim safely. It’s also important to remember children (and adults) who appear to be confident in the water are not always competent swimmers.
Reasons why you should learn to swim
- Swimming provides many health benefits by keeping your heart and lungs healthy
- Improves your strength and flexibility
- Increases stamina
- Improves balance and posture
- Increases stamina
- Swimming provides challenges and rewards accomplishments – which helps children to become self-confident and believe in their abilities
- Lastly, your child will have plenty of opportunities to make friends and grow in confidence.
- It’s the only sport that can save a life
- Swimming teaches us about water safety, not only in the water but around it too
- If taught early on in life it will help with physical development skills such as muscle tone and hand-eye coordination
According to Swim England:
- Swimming provides challenges and rewards accomplishments, which helps children (and adults) to become self-confident and believe in their abilities
- You can have the opportunity to make friends and grow in confidence
Learning to swim is a skill for life and is rarely forgotten, swimming doesn’t care about age either making it an accessible sport for all.
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