Experts detail the benefits of swimming, from strengthening your muscles to reducing inflammation and boosting your mental health—and how to get started. Swimming offers a low-impact exercise with ...

Move over, cycling and running. There’s another way to get your cardio in: swimming. We get it—getting yourself to a pool and strapping on your goggles might feel like a lot of extra effort—but ...

Dear Doctor K: I’m overweight and I want to exercise. But I have painful knees that make it difficult to walk. Is swimming a good alternative? Dear Reader: Large studies looking at the benefits of ...

While you could always swim laps if you want to work out in a pool, there are plenty of other exercises to do in the water that are just as beneficial. Think squats in the shallow end, push-ups ...

Dear Dr. Donohue • Please clear something up for me. Is swimming considered an aerobic exercise? It's my choice of exercise. Dr. Roach: I have such a minor question that I do not think you would want ...

Do you take your fitness journey by land or by sea? Anyone picking a new exercise routine won’t lack for opinions from among the tens of millions of runners and swimmers in the U.S. There are ...

Fast swimming comes from powerful strokes. Powerful strokes come from a strong core. And a strong core comes from more than just a few crunches in the gym. Here are five core exercises for swimmers.

One is vertical, high-impact and performed on land; the other is horizontal, low-impact and performed in the water. On the face of it, running and swimming share about as much in common as chalk with ...