Swimming is considered to be one of the most popular sports in many European countries. Despite it could be considered a “boring” sport; it has now overtaken football and many other, “more visible” sports in the number of participants.<\/p>\n
You can swim at any age and on any level:<\/strong> from newborns to the elderly, going from simple swimming lessons to pre-competitive and then to competitive swimming, from the teenager to the masters training where you never stop “competing”.<\/p>\n Today we’ll be talking about the older age group, but we won’t be talking about master athletes that compete and train constantly, obviously proportionally to their age, but simply as a way to keep fit.<\/strong><\/p>\n Staying healthy is what we should focus on both before and after swimming. Remember to do a series of stretching exercises before getting in the pool, which should be a fundamental part of any warm-up and can help avoiding any unnecessary injuries.<\/p>\n In the water the laps should be done in a slow but continuous matter.<\/p>\n I suggest doing the following set of exercises:<\/p>\n When you’ve finished, do some relaxing exercises on land, have a shower and… good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Swimming is considered to be one of the most popular sports in many European countries. Despite it could be considered a “boring” sport; it has now overtaken football and many …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1372,"featured_media":18270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10090],"tags":[2250,2484,2486,2232,2488,1896],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n