{"id":1008,"date":"2008-08-23T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/swimming-101-the-fitness-benefits\/"},"modified":"2009-08-26T10:45:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T15:45:42","slug":"swimming-101-the-fitness-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/swimming-101-the-fitness-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming 101: The Fitness Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swimming is an\u00a0excellent total body exercise and offers no joint impact or any such stress on the body like many other types of activities. <a title=\"swimming workouts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/swim-for-an-effective-total-body-workout\/\" target=\"_self\">Swimming workouts<\/a> are perfect for any kind of\u00a0rehab, muscle endurance, burning unwanted calories, controlling breathing,\u00a0and a good\u00a0way to switch up the workouts in general.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"swimming\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/swimming.jpg\" alt=\"swimming\" width=\"400\" height=\"238\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are six types of strokes, all of which work\u00a0almost every muscle in the body:<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Free-style stroke <\/strong>(with flutter kick) mainly\u00a0works the deltoids, hips, quads, and hamstrings.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Butterfly Stroke<\/strong> (with Dolphin kick) focuses on the complete lower body, deltoids, and chest muscles.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Side Stroke<\/strong> (with scissor kick)\u00a0mainly works the <a title=\"triceps\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/top-5-tricep-exercises\/\" target=\"_blank\">triceps<\/a>, hips, quads, and hamstrings.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Back Crawl <\/strong>(with flutter kick) emphasizes the deltoids, back, hips, <a title=\"quads\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/top-5-quad-exercises\/\" target=\"_blank\">quads<\/a>, and hamstrings.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Breast\u00a0stroke <\/strong>(with &#8220;frog kick&#8221;) mainly targets the chest, triceps, and complete lower\u00a0body.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Elementary Back Stroke<\/strong> focuses on the deltoids and complete lower body. I have put together a list of exercises to help\u00a0with your swimming and recommend doing\u00a0three sets of twenty repetitions of each movement.\u00a0Congratulations\u00a0to Michael Phelps for his great accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 Exercises To Target Each Major Muscle Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>External\u00a0Cable Rotation (Deltoid)<\/p>\n<p>Internal Cable\u00a0Rotation (Deltoid)<\/p>\n<p>Cable\u00a0Chest Press (Chest)<\/p>\n<p>Leg Raise (Hips)<\/p>\n<p>Leg Curl (Hamstrings)<\/p>\n<p>Leg Extension\u00a0(Quads)<\/p>\n<p>Hip\u00a0Adduction (Inner Thigh)<\/p>\n<p>Hip Abduction (Outer Thigh)<br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.physicalfitnet.com\/video_syndication\/embed\/js.aspx?chid=163&amp;pid=7CD58ACC584612579209C593BF6B6F47\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimming is an\u00a0excellent total body exercise and offers no joint impact or any such stress on the body like many other types of activities. Swimming workouts are perfect for any kind of\u00a0rehab, muscle endurance, burning unwanted calories, controlling breathing,\u00a0and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/swimming-101-the-fitness-benefits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1027,687],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-swimming","tag-workouts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11457,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/11457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}