Why is Age Group Swimming a Winner?

With all the sports and activities that kids have to choose from today, why select swimming? Age Group Swimming is the largest and most successful program of guided fitness activity for children.

The reasons are many:

  • Swimming develops high level aerobic endurance, the most important key to physical fitness.
  • Swimming is the best activity for promoting proportional muscular development because of its use of all the body's major muscle groups.
  • Swimming helps enhance children's natural flexibility by exercising all their major joints through full range of motion.
  • Swimming helps develop superior coordination because it requires combinations of complex muscle function, grace, and fluidity of movement.
  • Swimming is the most injury free of all children's sports.
  • Swimming is a sport that promotes fitness and enjoyment for life.


    • Additional Benefits

    In addition to physical development, children can develop greater intellectual competence by participating in a guided program of physical activity. Children can learn to be better learners from swimming. Developing and using swimming skills engages the thinking process. As new techniques are learned, children must develop and plan movement sequences, and they will explore new ideas. They will learn that greater progress results from using their creative talents. Self expression will be enhanced, and their accomplishments in learning and using new skills will contribute to a stronger self- image.

    Age Group Swimmers also learn

  • to link quality of effort with quality of results;
  • to work cooperatively and unselfishly with others;
  • to value persistence and commitment;
  • to set goals and enjoy their achievement; and
  • to make intelligent choices and decisions.


    • Swimming Club Members on the average are more successful academically than participants in other organized sports and non-participants. This achievement in part can be attributed to some of the important priorities in the sports of swimming; such as goal setting, self-discipline and efficient time management.