LIFESTYLE

Owning a pool can affect your lifestyle and enhance your quality of life in many ways.

Outdoor entertaining is becoming increasingly popular.

• In-ground pools are a focal point for outdoor entertainment.

When hosting a family reunion one of the biggest concerns is making sure that there are plenty of activities.

• Swimming pools provide hours of enjoyment.

After you purchase your property you may start to picture the improvements that will make the property more attractive and appealing. This is the normal course for most and since visual attraction is the key selling feature to most people, the right improvements will increase your property value.

• In-ground pools increase property values from 8 percent to as much as 15 percent, depending on lot size and the style of the property, according to a recent study sponsored by NAR.

Increase the usability of your home by extending your livable area to the backyard.

• When you own a swimming pool you can create an outdoor room that you can use for entertaining or relaxing. Incorporating items like outdoor furniture, fire pit, grill, and a pergola or gazebo can help to create your ultimate backyard retreat.

FITNESS

Doctors agree that swimming is an excellent choice of fitness for just about everyone, especially those who have physical limitations or who find other forms of exercise painful.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both women and men in the United States.

• Swimming can help reduce and possibly prevent high blood pressure, which lowers your risk for heart disease and stroke.

The body needs physical exercise to remain happy and healthy.

• Swimming works all muscles without putting strain on your body. It’s regarded as the best all-around exercise that allows you to lose and maintain weight.

When you watch television, your body’s metabolism drops almost to sleeping levels.

• Swimming relieves stress and enhances your body’s metabolism.

A 145 lb runner can easily burn 300 calories in 30 minutes

• On average, a swimmer can burn as many calories in an hour as a runner who runs six miles in one hour.

Excessive or prolonged stress and anxiety produces a physiological flood of hormones and chemicals into your system that can wreak havoc with your body’s delicate internal balance. Links have been found between the ill effects of stress and anxiety and a decline in immune system function and your body’s ability to ward off illness.

• Swimming helps to relieve stress; it allows more oxygen to flow to your muscles and forces you to regulate your breathing.

More than half of all pregnant women suffer from back pain or some other orthopedic problem.

• Pregnant women benefit from swimming because it helps strengthen the shoulder and abdominal muscles, which can be strained when carrying a baby.

Babies are born with natural instincts with regards to their water environment.

• The water is a great place for new mothers to spend time with their baby.

Obese children have increased average blood pressure, heart rate and cardiac output when compared to non-obese peers.

• Swimming is extremely fun while also being a great form of exercise; in today’s society this is necessary due to the sedentary lifestyle in which children live.

Often one of the reasons motioned for not engaging in exercise, decreasing or even stopping exercise is the risk of injury.

• There is a low risk for swimming injuries because there’s no stress on your bones, joints or connective tissues due to buoyancy and the fact that you weigh 1/10th less in water.

Depression is a symptom of our increasingly hectic lifestyles.

• Swimmers reported significantly less tension, depression, anger, confusion, and more vigor after exercising. What better way to exercise than in your very own swimming pool.