# 5 Interesting facts – Swimming (Fun & Weird)

We all Know swimming is very helpful to us. Here are some facts about it:

• Elephants can swim around 20 miles per day. Actually they use their trunks as snorkels.

• An average person produces enough saliva in a lifetime to fill two swimming pools.

• Swimming is a good exercise. It helps you exercise most of your body parts without straining your joints.

• Swimming increases your body strength, it also helps in strengthen your bones, especially at an advanced age.

• Swimming improves your endurance. The longer you swim, your body can tolerates hard workouts.

• Swimming improves your fitness. It burns about 450 to 950 calories per hour, all it depends on your pace.

• Swimming helps asthma patients in avoiding asthma attacks; it can improve their condition in general as it helps in their breathing methods.

• Swimming restores your body’s blood movement. After an intense out-of-the-pool workout, it helps your muscles in their recovery.

• Swimming releases endorphins and has the same effects as yoga on the human body, so it helping in relieving stress.

• Swimming gives you discipline and sportsmanship. It also gives you a healthy competitive side, by pushing you to overcome your visibility and/or yourself.

• Swimming is the best way to cool down your body in the sizzling hot summer, independent of how high the temperature is, water never fails to refresh or freshen you up!

So, keep swimming!!