If you have thought of owning a swim spa, you’re on the right track. Being able to swim daily in the privacy of your own backyard provides numerous health benefits. Here are just a few of the top health benefits.

Improved cardiovascular health. Any physical activity is good for your heart. Swimming is yet another excellent way to work out the most important muscle of your body, increasing heart rate and blood flow to every part of your body. Because swimming is a terrific aerobic exercise, it helps strengthen your heart by helping it become larger and a more efficient pump. It can also aid your body’s inflammatory response, which is one of the issues that can lead to heart disease. Did you know…? A daily swim for 30 minutes can reduce coronary heart disease for women by 30-40%!

Weight management. Daily use of a swim spa is a solid way to burn calories and assist with weight control. Consider these swim strokes and the calorie burn from each in a ten minute circuit: breast stroke—60 calories; backstroke—80 calories; freestyle—100; butterfly—150 in just 10 minutes! Boost calorie burning during a swim by varying the distances swum (50, 100, 150 yards) in each period with 10 second rests in between.

Improved cholesterol. Swimming can help balance the levels of HDL & LDL cholesterol in your body. Because it’s a great aerobic exercise, swimming helps increase the level of HDL (the “good” cholesterol) in your bloodstream. For every 1% increase in HDL in your body, the risk of heart disease drops by 3½%.

Stress reduction. As with any exercise regimen, you’ll certainly find using a swim spa to be a terrific way to discharge the stress of the day. Swimming produces that natural high that comes from increased endorphin production. The stretching and relaxing of your muscles during a swim, along with its rhythmic breathing, is similar to the way your body responds when doing yoga. The sound of your own breathing coupled with the sounds of splashing water will drown out the day’s distractions and get you back to center. Did you know…? Research has shown that brain cells lost through stress get replaced during swimming. The term for this–hippocampal neurogenesis—is encouraged during swimming.

Extend your life! Swimming in a swim spa can ultimately lead to living a longer, healthier life. The University of Carolina conducted a swim study, following a group of over 40,000 men for 32 years. The men ranged in age from 20-92. The results? Men who swam had a 50% lower rate of death compared to men who used running or walking as a consistent way to exercise, or those who did no physical activity.

These five reasons are just the start of what daily swim spa use can do for you! Visit Oregon Hot Tub today to learn more about TidalFit Swim Spas and how they’ll help you improve your health.

So many people love to swim, and there’s certainly plenty of evidence that regular swimming is good for you. How do you get the benefit of swimming year round at home in an economic way? The answer: a swim spa.

There are a number of reasons people choose to install swim spas over a swimming pool today. We offer up the top reasons for you here:

1. Expense. This is the biggest driver today making swim spas a good answer for those who want to swim at home. While a swimming pool today could cost you $25k-$50k to have constructed, a swim spa can often be purchased and installed starting at around $14k.
2. Ease of installation. While a swimming pool can take anywhere from 3-6 months to plan and have constructed, a swim spa can usually be installed in as little as three weeks.
3. Convenience. The more accessible a vessel where you can swim daily is, the more likely you are to use it every day and get the great health benefits swimming affords. This is especially true in climates that aren’t warm year round, where community pools may close up to 6 or 7 months a year.
4. Versatility. A swim spa allows you to get the health benefits of swimming, as well as the massage action from jets normally reserved for hot tubs. You can soak and enjoy the massage when needed after a hard day, a marathon, daily run, or cycling.
5. After install costs. While maintaining a swimming pool could involve routine visits from a pool service, a swim spa is usually much easier to care for, given it’s a smaller body of water in a portable unit. Energy and water expense will also be minimized. Many swim spas can be sanitized without high amounts of chlorine and other water care products as well, letting you swim in water that’s healthier, and at considerable reduction in money laid out for chemicals.

When the urge to install a swimming pool seizes the water babies of the world, give considerable thought to a swim spa instead. You may find yourself taking the plunge in no time, enjoying years of personal healthy swimming at home. Visit one of our stores today and check out our entire line of TidalFit Swim Spas. You’ll be thrilled at what you discover!