{"id":3221,"date":"2021-08-23T17:35:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2021-08-23T17:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T21:35:10","slug":"why-you-should-get-swimming-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/08\/23\/why-you-should-get-swimming-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Get Swimming This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we continue to enjoy the warm weather and the summer break, it&#8217;s great to take this time to jump into the water, especially to cool off. In addition to it being a great summer activity, new reports show that swimming also has some cognitive benefits, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/Habits-Good-Brain-Health\"><strong>boosting your brain\u2019s health<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With previous research done on aerobic exercise, it\u2019s shown that this workout helps the creation of neural connections, increasing the brain-derived neurotrophic factor protein, and improving brain plasticity and cognitive function. However, researchers deep-dived into analyzing the benefits of swimming, and it appears swimming offers a rise of these benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/neuroscientists-go-to-nutrients-and-their-sources-for-brain-health\"><strong>one research project<\/strong><\/a>, researchers found that elderly individuals who swam regularly had improved both memory and cognitive function compared to those who didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Another research analyzed the<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.asha.org\/doi\/10.1044\/2021_JSLHR-20-00359\"><strong> benefits in children\u2019s experience<\/strong><\/a> and found that they successfully learned new vocabulary words after three different exercises \u2013 swimming, Crossfit, and coloring. In fact, vocabulary retention was higher after swimming than other activities.<\/p>\n<p>With given results based on the research conducted, it shows swimming, or simply getting into the water and moving around seems to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/swimming-gives-your-brain-a-boost-but-scientists-dont-know-yet-why-its-better-than-other-aerobic-activities-164297\"><strong>great method<\/strong><\/a> to improve mental health, memory, and cognitive function.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As we continue to enjoy the warm weather and the summer break, it&#8217;s great to take this time to jump into the water, especially to cool off. In addition to it being a great summer activity, new reports show that swimming also has some cognitive benefits, boosting your brain\u2019s health. With previous research done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,45],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}