• Swimming is a healthy activity that can be continued for a lifetime.

• Learning to swim keep children safe in many common water activities.

• Regular swimming builds endurance, muscle strength and cardio-vascular fitness.

• Swimming is a low impact exercise activity that can be continued when other activities may turn out to be too strenuous.

There are other psychological benefits to swimming. Relaxation through swimming acts as a form of meditation that help you gain a feeling of well-being, leaving your water sessions refreshed and ready to go on with the rest of your day. Many swimmers find an in-direct benefit from swimming. They develop life skills such as sportsmanship, time-management, self-discipline, goal-setting, and an increased sense of self-worth through their participation in the sport.

Swimmers seem to do better in school, in general terms, than non-swimmers as a group.