How does swimming laps build your body?
Regular swimming builds endurance, muscle strength and cardio-vascular fitness and burn 3 calories a mile per pound. Swimming with increasing effort will gradually increase your heart rate and stimulate your muscle activity so it's a great warm up.
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About Swimming
Swimming is movement through water using one's limbs, and usually without artificial apparatus. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful, recreational, and has developed into a highly competitive sport on local levels through international..
About Muscle
There are over 600 muscles in the body. They do everything from pumping blood throughout your body to helping you lift heavy objects. You control some of your muscles, while others (like your heart) do their jobs without your even thinking about them at all. Muscles are the tissues in the body that contract and affect the movement of and within the body. Muscle tissue is classified as striated, smooth, or cardiac, according to its structure and function.
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