What's the benefit of swimming?

I'm 13 years old, a girl, and in 8th grade right now. This year, is my last year of cheerleading since i dont want to do it in the highschool because i want to do band instead. I need something to do, thats kind of competitive, can get me in shape and...

whats the fashion and whats its benefit

I lap swim every day, usually just doing freestyle swimming. Today I used a snorkel and loved it but wonder if holding your breath while swimming is a better workout for you....

Okay, so I stopped swimming over the summer for say.. 2 months, so I've been working out in place of swimming. I do about 10 x 5 pull ups, 3 x 40 push ups, and 2 x 30 crunches, ...show more

When I first started swimming again, I cramped horribly on my leg. I jumped back in after the pain sub-sided and soon after that my other leg cramped up. I kind of limped back home. :( After swimming daily I stopped cramping, but I'm worried that one...

Im 20 years old and really enjoy swimming for lesuire, have been doing it for a very long time now and thought it would be fun to start competition swimming. where should i go? do i have to join a club or is there open events were anyone can go, no matter...

I inherited a 46 gallon bowed front aquarium. My friend who left us the aquarium bought a huge stock of fish: two Tiger Oscars, two Zebra cichlids, two jeweled cichlids, two spotted algae eaters, an unidentified algae eater, a male Malawi cichlid (very...