The American population is big on workouts and gym regimens these days. Millennials even prioritize fitness, health, and wellness over cars and financial independence. They spend more money on workout than any other generation before them. Yoga, Pilates, cross-training—the works.

But why spend a fortune on gym memberships and personal trainers when you can get a wholesome fitness package right at home? By building a swimming pool in your Sterling home, you can have all the perks of a gym and only have to spend money once!

It’s a great workout regimen—as you’re about to find out.

Work Out Your Whole Body

When you go to a gym, you’re working on one thing at a time: the abdomen, the chest, the legs, and so on. With swimming, all of it is worked at once. You have breaststrokes, sidestrokes, backstrokes, the butterfly, and the freestyle.

Each of these strokes involves a specific group of muscles, with natural water resistance gently nudging you on. Without even knowing it, you tone your muscles, build endurance and strength, and improve your heart rate.

It Keeps You Fit

Swimming burns calories too! You can burn around 423 calories (if you weigh 160 pounds) just by swimming an hour. If the same person swims more vigorously, you can burn around 715 calories.

Since there is little stress and many benefits involved, swimming is an all-round better option for weight loss. Forget those damaging treadmills that injure your muscles in the long run. Go the safer route with swimming.

It’s Affordable!

As we’ve already mentioned, gymming is expensive. Annual gym memberships don’t come cheap, and personal trainers can charge the equivalent of a kidney.

A swimming pool in your home means you can go to your very own gym any time of the day—without paying a hefty sum for the membership fee. You don’t need a personal trainer.

And oh, an added plus: you don’t need to put up with those annoying Instagrammers at the local gym either.

It isn’t Unnatural

Unlike those extensive exercises you undertake at the gym that demand you assume absurd postures, swimming is natural. Humans have been swimming for as long as they have existed—or since 8,000 B.C., to be exact.

There are no unnatural postures in swimming that can lead to sports injuries and poor posture later on. Swimming is au naturel, and thus, completely safe.

Talk to a Professional Pool Designer and Builder in Sterling

There’s good news for Sterling millennials with a quest for physical fitness: Perfect Pools is offering free consultations for its clients. We can build a customized pool for you just how you want it—all you need to do is tell us about it.