Workout Ideas

Looking for workout ideas? Stop by the guard room and ask for a workout book.

It falls from the sky, and it comes from the ground. Two thirds of your body is made of it. It keeps you skin from wrinkling, flowers from wilting. You wash with it, drink it, and cook with it. Kids love to play in it, wars have been fought over it. Three quarters of the earth is covered with it. Some believe it cleanses the soul and purifies the mind. What is it? It's water-and it's also what makes swimming unique in the world of sports and physical fitness.

What Can Swimming Do For You?

• It Helps Your Heart, Blood Vessels, and Lungs

Swimming is an excellent aerobic (heart pumping) exercise, which means that if you do it regularly and vigorously enough to raise your heartbeat to 70 percent of its Maximum Rate for a half hour or more, your cardiovascular system will gradually grow stronger and more efficient.

• It Gives You Stronger, Firmer Muscles

Swimming is the single best exercise for toning your arms, shoulders, waistline, hips, and legs all at once. And since water cushions and supports your body, your chances of straining a muscle are greatly reduced.

• It Increases Flexibility

Swimming's long, sinuous motions, along with the increased range of movement that your body has in the water, actually elongate your muscles while strengthening them.

• It's Easy on Your Muscles and Bones

Swimming is the one exercise that doctors-especially sports medicine specialists-unfailingly recommend to those who have sustained injuries in other sports, or in life.

• It Helps You Lose Weight

Studies have shown that strenuous exercise may actually diminish your desire to eat. After a vigorous swim, the last thing you'll want to do it stuff yourself!

Sun Devil Masters

Sun Devil Masters Swimming (SDM) is a swim club for anyone interested in the benefits of swimming. We currently have about 160 members including beginning swimmers, fitness enthusiasts, triathletes, Masters national champions and world record holders, former NCAA champions, Olympic medalists and World Record Holders.

Everyone enjoys the benefits of structured workouts and professional coaching in a relaxed environment. Members must be 18 years of age or older and registered with the Arizona Local Masters Swim Committee (LMSC) of United States Masters Swimming (USMS). Swimmers range from their 20's to 80's in age and across all skill levels. Competition is voluntary. Workouts are scheduled conveniently and the friendly coaching staff has over 50 years experience and is very dedicated.

Visit website at www.sundevilmasters.org