Brasse, crawl, butterfly, back: what swimming for me?

Swimming is a sport without impact. It spares the joints, strengthens and works their flexibility, while muscling the entire body.

Beyond developing musculature, swimming, practiced regularly, improves cardio and allows you to train while avoiding injuries. The effort is constant, enough to limit the risks of muscle tears or tendonitis.

Do you suffer from various ills?

All swimming have very different virtues. This is why some are more recommended than others, depending on the evils from which we suffer:

• Pain in the knees? We recommend the crawl. The breaststroke more requests the knee joint, with a rotation of the latter which is unnatural.
• Back pain? Try your back crawl. The other swimming, and in particular the crawl, have a slight twist during breathing, which can cause small pain.
• Osteoarthritis? All swimming work the amplitude of the joints and can relieve this type of pain.

Obviously, following an injury, the best repair is to slow down the rhythm, even to put your body on a break time to recover completely. Some experts offer an alternative to sport generally practiced, and swimming is often part of it. Be careful, however, swimming remains a sport, even if it is a soft sport. Nothing beats the advice of health professionals before you start, some movements may be prohibited.

Do you want to build muscle?

Do you want to gain tone through swimming? It is possible. Good to know: it is often said that swimming stretches and strengthens the muscle without it swelling. The body is thus toned and refined, but to gain volume, it will be necessary to practice sessions of muscle strengthening in parallel.

Although all swimming allows the body to build muscle in depth, it is interesting to adopt a specific swim depending on the part of the body you want to strengthen.

• Upper body. The muscle swimming as a priority the upper body, especially the dorsals and the shoulders. The breaststroke may seem less effective, but it muscles pectorals (also think of the butterfly swim) and the biceps. With the crawl and the crawl back, the triceps are put into action. The abdominals will be more contacted with the crawl (the obliques) and the butterfly.
• Lower body. We focus on breaststroke lengths that build adductors (interior of the thighs), quadriceps (before thighs) and hamstrings (back of the thighs).

Are you pregnant?

Swimming is recommended for pregnant women up to nine months of pregnancy, there is no restriction in the swimming. We just note that the breaststroke can accentuate the camber. If you tend to dig your back, prefer crawl or crawl back for about twenty minutes. There is no point in forcing, the whole thing is to listen to. Bonus: This sport limits or even stops certain perceptible pain during pregnancy such as back and joint ailments. In short, ideal sport!

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