Promotion of Swimming in Fitness

Jiang Wei

Sports department of Jiangsu University, Jiangsu, Zhenjiang, 212013, China

Keywords: Swimming, Fitness, Promotion.

Abstract: Reasonable swimming promotes the health of certain groups, including infants and old people. Meanwhile,

it has positive effects on disease prevention and health keeping. The work analyzes and summaries

significances of swimming with literature review method. Therefore, we get the promotion of health with

swimming. The innovation point of the work is to analyze ordinary and special people independently. Thus,

it will be discussed comprehensively. Moreover, it will have certain positive effects on the development and

popularity of swimming.

1 INTRODUCTION

Swimming is quite a popular seasonal sport among

people. In ancient times, people learn it by seizing

birds and fishes in the water for survival. Modern

swimming actions are formed gradually by imitating

postures of fishes and frogs. It can be divided into

butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle from

a competitive perspective. However, swimming is

just one of the various water sports that cater to

people of different ages, which explains its

popularity. It is not only interesting, but also plays

an important role in exercising, strengthening body

and fitness. Therefore, studying its promotion of

health is of significant importance for the

development and popularization.

2 PROMOTION OF SWIMMING

IN BODY BUILDING

2.1 Promotion of Cardiovascular

Function

Due to resistance of water, people’s energy

consumption will lead to the acceleration of cardiac

motion and heart rates. Meanwhile, heart pressure

grows and blood output becomes large. Thus, people

who insist on swimming will have exercise-induced

increase in hearts in physical activity. Contraction of

heart muscle strength will also increase. Meanwhile,

heart rates of people above in quiet places become

slower; each pulse output grows; blood vessel wall

thickens; elasticity increases. Thus, increases in the

operational efficiency of human cardiovascular

systems will strength cardiovascular functions and

human health.

2.2 Promotion of Respiratory

Functions

According to the research, lung capacity of high-

level swimmers reaches 7,000ml, which also reaches

4,500-6,500ml among ordinary people. People who

have lung capacity ranging from 3,000-4,000 are of

standard level, which means swimming improves

more than 1/3 of lung capacity. The reason why

swimming improves it so greatly is that water

density is more than 800 times of air density. Thus,

people get more pressure and have more difficulties

in breathing underwater than on the ground. When

chest and abdominal cavity are pressed by water,

bigger chest muscle strength is needed. Moreover,

sports underwater need more frequent breathes to

absorb lager amounts of oxygen. Thus, health of

athletes’ respiratory functions will be promoted.

2.3 Role in Promoting Body

Temperature Regulation

Temperature of body is clearly higher than that of

swimming pool, and water in the pool is more than

10 times faster than air in temperature conduction.

Therefore, body will keep regulating temperature to

keep it stable. People who swim often have relative

healthier and faster temperature regulation and adapt

to outside temperature easier.

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DOI: 10.5220/0006025403270329

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2.4 Role in Promoting Immune System

Thanks to the stimulation of cold water for a long

time, swimming can improve body’s adaptation to

environment changes. Meanwhile, long time

swimming can effectively exercise the zang-fu

organs, which will improve cell viability and

strengthen body. Great improvements will be seen in

preventing colds and viral flu erosion. Thus, immune

system will be improved effectively and people will

not be vulnerable to viruses or bacteria. Some

patients with chronic diseases get better or even

recover after swimming under the guidance of

doctors. For example, patients with chronic asthma

or bronchitis can improve their immune system with

swimming. Thus, their health will be improved due

to the strengthening of disease resistance.

2.5 Role in Promoting Fit-keeping

Compared with other sports, swimming exercises

body more fully and completely. Meanwhile, it

produces more extensive impacts. With limbs, head

and neck’s working together, and cooperation of

waist, legs, back, chest and abdominal parts’ muscle

groups, athletes can exercise whole body despite

water resistance. Besides, the exercise of muscle and

coordination will make figure more flexible and

more standard. Therefore, swimming can make

athletes more fit and trim.

2.6 Role in Adjusting Psychology

Will is crucial to human beings, which is a state of

mind that fights to realize dreams. Meanwhile, it is

an important manifestation of human self-initiative

and motivation. Exercising is to discipline relentless

in people, so as to lay a solid ideological foundation

to achieve goals. As a fitness sport, swimming also

exercises will and regulates mentality. In particular,

swimming of long distances, in the winter or deep

water, needs people to overcome it psychologically

and to improve skills. After struggling with hard

work, people can do sports in the relatively extreme

environment. With the right guidance of theory and

own efforts, not only physical fitness is improved,

but also athletes feel proud. Moreover, it is a more

profound success that is obtained after overcoming

extreme conditions or hardships. Therefore, long

time participation in swimming can effectively

reduce pressure of work and study, eliminate some

bad moods, and relax people while exercising.

3 PROMOTION OF SWIMMING

TO SPECIAL GROUPS IN

BODY BUILDING

3.1 Promotion of Infants’ Health

Many people feel incredible when they know infants

can swim, after all it is dangerous. However, in

foreign countries, people attach importance to

infants’ swimming in the middle of last century.

They think swimming can exercise infants well and

make them adapt to the outside world better.

However, China’s research on infants’ swimming

just started, and is still in the primary stage. Many

documents prove that swimming can improve

infants’ health. Information shows a maternity

hospital in Guangzhou introduces swimming to

newborn babies, once a day for 10-15 minutes.

Researches among 100 infants prove that contact

with water for some time not only develops infants’

organs, but also lets them enjoy healthy life. They

are listed as follows:

Firstly, it will help infants adapt to the outside

environment in the shortest time as they experience

the biggest change when they come from wombs to

earth. When in the amniotic fluid, they cannot

breathe with lungs. After birth, they sense

differences of the world themselves. However, it

needs a process to get used to the changes.

Therefore, infants’ contact with water for some time

helps them finish the most important transition

period better.

Secondly, it helps better develop infants’ brains.

Due to the stimulation that water poses on infants,

their brains sense changes of different environments

and respond to them. Thus, it contributes to the brain

development and improves response capacity of

brain.

Thirdly, it helps to develop infants’ gastro-

intestinal digestive system. With the help of water,

infants’ digestive organs develop better. Thus, it will

enhance the gastrointestinal absorption and make

them heavier.

Fourthly, the buoyancy of water also eliminates

its gravity on the infants’ vascular loop load and

reduces heart burdens. Thus, it is helpful to the rapid

and healthy growth of infants.

However, as infants are weak and strange to

water environment. If you are not aware of safe

operations, negative effects may happen. Therefore,

when infants are swimming, the following work

needs to be considered: firstly, you need to follow

doctor’s arrangements and advices, and let them

swim according to health conditions; secondly,

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water environment needs to be controlled, along

with temperature and quality; thirdly, swim for 10-

15 minutes.

3.2 Promotion in Fitness of the Elderly

With the development of economy and progress of

science, people live longer and the elderly increase

in large numbers. As China has entered the aging

society, it is vital to appreciate the popularity and

development of old people’s sports. Nowadays, an

important factor that threats the elderly is the

fracture and paralysis that results from osteoporosis.

It has become a serious social problem and got

attention by governments and health workers for old

people. Judging from medical studies, human bones

grow with ages and reach peaks between ages of 35-

40. When they become old, bones decline with ages.

Nowadays, there is no scientific way to stabilize

bone mass in the medical field. Therefore, it is quite

important for the elderly to prevent osteoporosis.

Swimming improves body’s anti-aging ability

effectively. Study found that long time swimming

promotes the density and mineral content of bones.

Regardless of gender differences, old people who

keep exercising for more than 4 years are better than

controls in bone density and mineral content. The

statistical analysis P<0.01 proves that swimming

effectively prevents bone losses. Moreover,

considering the relatively small physical activity of

the old, swimming is a perfect non-traumatic

campaign. First of all, swimming is a systemic sport.

While doing sports, mechanical stress of bones

comes out due to water stress. Thus, it stimulates the

osteoblast activity to improve bone mass of the

elderly and perfectly prevents osteoporosis.

3.3 Role in Promoting the Fitness of

Pregnant Women

Human’s health can never be separated from

congenital genetic factors. Meanwhile, mother’s

health during pregnancy is critical to fetus’s healthy

growth. Appropriate swimming during pregnancy

has positive effects on herself and fetus. It promotes

healthy development of fetus and avoids the hypoxic

conditions of fetal life. Meanwhile, it has active

impacts on the development of visceral organs.

Moreover, it is good for psychological development.

In the 4th month of pregnancy, stomach becomes

bigger and pains appear in the spine and pelvis area.

With blood’s concentration on the abdomen,

mothers prone to prenatal symptoms such as

constipation, anemia and ailment. It is good to

promote blood circulation of pregnant women with

water massage through swimming. Moreover, this

enhances metabolism and muscle strength to ease

the pain of waist and spine. Furthermore, it corrects

abnormal fetal position and contributes to normal

childbirth.

4 CONCLUSIONS

In all, with scientific theory, swimming properly and

exercising regularly effectively strengths

cardiovascular, respiratory system, regulation of

body temperature and immunity. Meanwhile, it

helps to shape body, regulate psychology and

exercise will. Moreover, scientific swimming

contributes to fitness of infants, the elderly and

pregnant women. Due to the benefits to fitness,

swimming needs promotion and popularization in

society. Improvement and development of modern

swimming venues and infrastructures will support

the development of mental health of Chinese people.

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