Fifty reasons:
Why swimming is so good for you!
50 amazing, bizarre and interesting facts about swimming in your own pool. Carefully collected, compiled and written down for you
- A feeling of weightlessness: Swimming is like flying. Maybe even more beautiful!
- Whole body workout: One swim stroke effectively uses almost all the muscles in your body.
- Cardiovascular training: Your heart is a muscle too, and swimming is the perfect workout to strengthen it in the long term.
- Stress relief: Get into the water, get out of the daily grind. Swimming is great for letting off steam and calming your nervous system.
- Improved breathing: If you swim regularly, you can improve your breathing technique and thus increase your general well-being.
- Happy joints: There is probably no sport gentler than swimming
- Exercise for everyone: There are countless swimming variations. Everyone can find the right way to keep fit.
- The burner! When it comes to burning calories, swimming makes other sports look old.
- Improved blood circulation: More oxygen. More nutrients for you and your cells. When you swim, your blood circulation can improve.
- Mood enhancer: The endorphins that are released during your swimming movements are potential happiness boosters.
- Tighten your skin: Water "massages" your connective tissue when you swim. Your skin looks smoother and firmer.
- Sandman's favourite sport: regular morning (!) swimming sessions can help you get a more restful night's sleep.
- Boost for the immune system: Sporting activities such as swimming can help to strengthen your immune system and protect you from illness.
- (Not)a bone job: Resistance training in the water has the potential to strengthen bones and reduce the risk of osteoporosis.
- Improve your coordination: Arms, legs, breathing and preferably in unison. Not so easy, but super effective!
- So cool! On a hot summer's day, there's nothing better than cooling off and refreshing yourself in a cool pool.
- Boost your confidence! Who practices, gets better. And stronger. And prouder! This also applies to swimming.
- Hello, neighbour! Bet the neighbours will quickly become very friendly when they find out you have a Polyfaser pool.
- Lifesafer: If you can swim, you can quickly become a lifesaver. If you swim regularly, you can quickly become a lifesaver for others in need.
- Back to nature: feel like a fish in the water, this saying is no coincidence: swimming connects us to the ancestors of all mammals.
- Increasing endurance: The more you swim, the more your endurance improves. Logical, right? And wonderful, isn't it?
- Quiet please: Under water, the world becomes silent and the noise of everyday life quietens. Therefore: dive in!
- Detox: It is said that swimming flushes many unnecessary things out of your system. Why don't you give it a try?
- Stay focused! If you set yourself swimming goals and work on them every day, you will stay fit and motivated.
- Prove your backbone: Proper swimming can help improve your posture and relieve back pain.
- Neurons fire: Swimming can optimise your cognitive functions. How? Through better blood circulation and its increased neuronal activity .
- The best break: Before or after work, quickly in between and whenever you feel like it: With a swimming pool from Polyfaser, you're in "pool position".
- More creativity: Some people find that the best ideas come while swimming. What do you think of?
- Inside view: The water can be a perfect space for thinking, reflecting and making decisions.
- Forever young. Splashing and splashing around is good for your inner child. Fancy a water fight?
- Longevity: We all get older. If you swim regularly, you are more likely to stay healthy for longer.
- Longer season: With a pool enclosure, your summer simply lasts longer and you can swim regardless of the season or the weather
- Concentration! The mental discipline required for swimming can help improve your ability to concentrate in other areas.
- Healthy reward: After a hard day's work or an intensive training session, you deserve a relaxing time in the pool as a reward. Better than chocolate!
- Away to the blue and green: A deep turquoise pool against the green backdrop of a garden is simply beautiful to kneel down in and a balm for the eyes and soul.
- Water concert: The rhythmic splashing, rushing and flowing of the water will get you and your inspiration flowing.
- Me-time: Time in the pool is all yours. Self-care is so important!
- Lose the flab: If you want to, swimming can help you regulate your weight. How? It boosts your metabolism and promotes muscle building.
- Relaaaaax: The well-tempered water of your pool can relieve muscle tension
- Vitamin D: Goes by the way: Fill up on sunlight and replenish your vitamin D stores.
- Be satisfied! It's hard to describe. But that special feeling of fulfilment that you experience after a few lengths is simply priceless!
- Living dreams: Did you know that many people often dream about swimming? But we don't know what that means either.
- Your own realm: Once a pool owner. Always a pool owner. Once you have a Polyfaser pool, you'll never want to do without it again. Bet?
- New energy. A few laps in the pool and you'll feel like a new person. Better than the third espresso in a row!
- Our confidence: We come from the (fruit) water. Maybe that's why we humans love swimming so much.
- Bye boredom! While it quickly gets boring in the gym or on the treadmill, you can never get enough of swimming in your own pool.
- Place to be: A pool is not just a place to swim, but also a chic meeting place for friends and family.
- Fantasy world: Remember when you were a child? You dived into the water and imagined you were a mermaid. How wonderful that was!
- Moving meditation: The rhythmic movements and controlled breathing calm the mind and bring you back to your centre.
- Fun: Last but never least - swimming is simply fun!