Swimming develops high quality aerobic endurance , the most important key to physical fitness. In other sports, an hour of practice may yield as little as 10 minutes of meaningful exercise. Swim teams use 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 natural flexibility by exercising all 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. Participants in the Master's Swimming Programs are still training and racing well into their 80's.