As we all know, exercise helps us to be strong and healthy. Regular exercise is compulsory for the people who fight with some health issues. Well, one of them is Diabetes.
Even swimming is a wonderful exercise for improving cardiovascular fitness because constant moving while swimming allows the blood and oxygen to be pumped more efficiently.
Unlike other sports like football, rugby and golf, it doesn’t strain your muscles or joints. Swimming also exercises both upper and lower muscles of the body, where other exercises cannot do. It can helps in burning more than 400 calories per hour.
It is especially good for those people who have numbness by diabetic neuropathy. When you burn number of calories while swimming, it results in lowering cholesterol and lowering blood pressure and makes you feel fit and help you to control your diabetes.
Health Benefits Of Swimming
Here are some of the health benefits of swimming apart from treating diabetes.
- Swimming acts as aerobic exercise where it involves all the activities of different parts of the body like legs, hands and for your entire body to provide amazing muscle strength.
- Swimming is also recommended for the people who want to burn their calories which results in weight loss.
- Even several researches in Indian university have found that, an hour of vigorous swimming can burn more than 700 calories in your body and swimmers are far more healthier than non swimmers.
- 30 minutes of regular swimming can make you stress free, and boosts your energy levels.
- As swimming increases the strength of muscles and lowers blood pressure, improving blood flow to the brain etc.It is really helpful in slowing down the ageing process and makes you look younger.
- Swimming is the only exercise that can be enjoyed thoroughly; include swimming in your regular exercise to enjoy all the benefits of it.
But don’t overdo at the beginning, and do not consider it in your regular routine without consulting your physician.
Manage Diabetes With Swimming
Following are some of the tips to be followed for the people with diabetes who are insulin dependent.
- Swimming should not exceed more than 30 minutes.
- Do not plan it for longer distances, because it may lead early hopes, when the blood sugar levels are lower than 12 mmol.
- If you are unfamiliar with consistent swimming, then it is recommended that do not continue to swim alone, especially if you cannot identify symptoms of high and low blood sugar levels.
- Once you are habituated for swimming and confident enough, then you can start swimming on your own.
- Regular swimming requires frequent blood test, just to know the perfect condition of you.
