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Swimming builds a strong foundation for a lifetime of good health, by teaching healthy fitness habits.
- Swimming develops high quality aerobic endurance, the most important key to physical fitness. Swimming uses every precious minute of practice time developing fitness and teaching skills.
- Swimming does a better job in proportional muscular development by using all the body's major muscle groups. No other sport does this as well.
- Swimming enhances children's natural flexibility by exercising all of their major joints through a full range of motion.
- Swimming helps develop superior coordination because it requires combinations of complex movements of all parts of the body, enhancing harmonious muscle function, grace, and fluidity of movement.
- Swimming is the most injury-free of all children's sports.
- Swimming is a sport that will bring kids fitness and enjoyment for life. Participants in Master's Swimming programs are still training and racing well into their 80's.
- Competitive swimming is a family affair and community affair. Swimmers develop lasting friendships with their fellow competitors.