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• Knowing how to swim significantly decreases the risk of drowning. Fatal drowning is the second-leading cause of unintentional injury death behind motor vehicle crashes for children ages 1–14. 
• Swimming improves mental health reducing stress, depression and anxiety.
• Swimming delays the physical indicators of aging up to twenty years. If there is a fountain of youth in the world, it is swimming. 
• Swimming is the best cardio-vascular workout and cardio-vascular exercise is linked to improved academic performance.
• Swimming improves brain health as you age by decreasing brain atrophy and shrinkage resulting in improved thinking and memory abilities.
• Swimming is low-impact and does not cause head injuries.
• Swimming improves flexibility and works every muscle in the body.
• Swimming reduces chronic pain, particularly from arthritis.
• Swimming can help reduce exercise-induced asthma symptoms. It also relieves the condition overall by increasing lung volume and teaching proper breathing techniques.
• Swimming is the only sport that can save your life.
• Swimming builds confidence, self-reliance and helps kids learn to set goals and work to achieve them.
• Swimming can teach strategies to overcome fear and swimmers tend to be academic achievers.
• Pool workouts can reduce the risk of chronic illnesses such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke.
• Swimming is one of the few sports you can do throughout your lifetime.
• Swimming is the excellent exercise as it works all the body’s muscles and burns the most calories. 
• Swimming aids in helping develop better athletes and conditioning for various other sports.
• Swimming offers a lifetime of health and fitness.
• Swimming can be a beneficial workout for anyone suffering from MS. 

Being a competent swimmer opens a world of water sports and outdoor recreational opportunities, including and not limited to:

scuba diving

 snorkeling

 becoming a lifeguard

competing in triathlons

water polo

competing on a swim team

 teaching swim

• Swimming promotes a foundation for healthy, active lifestyle to help lower obesity rates and diseases like diabetes.
• Swimming can make you smarter. 

*Sources: CDC.gov, Swimstrongfoundation.org, Swimmingworldmagazine.com, healthline.com, womenshealthmag.com