Swimming rules for kids are designed to help keep kids safe and organized while in the pool. While there are basic swimming rules that must be adhered to anytime your children are in a pool, there are also several rules that are unique to pools with slides and diving boards. Swimming rules often address poolside manner as well as overall swimming etiquette.

Swimming Gate Rule

This gate rule is designed to prevent kids from swimming unattended in a pool. According to Kids Health, fences must be at least 4 feet high and surround the entire pool. The slats on the pool fence must be less than 4 inches apart, preventing any young children from getting through. As a rule, you should always make your kids fully close and lock the gate to the pool after leaving the swimming area. Failure to do so may result in a younger child getting into the pool area unattended. The more secure your parameters are the less likely an accident will occur.

Swimming is good exercise (that's obvious). Swimming is a lifetime sport that benefits the body and the whole person! But what is it that makes swimming good, specifically? That depends on what you are trying to accomplish as a swimmer.

Swimming is a healthy activity that can be continued for a lifetime. The health benefits swimming offers to a swimmer are worth the effort it takes to get to the swimming pool, get into your swimsuit, and then get into that pool and swim. If you do not know how to swim, taking swimming lessons or teaching yourself how to swim better are great ways to help you to enjoy fitness swimming.

Swimming works practically all of the muscles in the body (if you do a variety of strokes). Swimming can develop a swimmer's general strength, cardiovascular fitness and endurance. It does not help with bone density - you need to weight bearing exercise for that - but that is about all that is missing from what swimming could do for your fitness.

From the moment human beings find themselves immersed in water, several things become apparent: It takes a lot of energy to stay afloat, the body needs to move in unfamiliar ways, using unfamiliar muscles, and motivation!? What's more immediate than sink or swim?

People swim to survive floods, cross rivers, escape shipwrecks. Staving off disaster rarely incurs such pleasant physical results. You can achieve life-saving benefits - more muscle, greater endurance, major calorie burn - in the safe confines of a community pool.

All you need to know is: • Which muscle group each stroke engages • Where swimming fits in your broader regimen • How to fuel for the pool