Dive into a swimming regimen
When you think of a swimming workout, you may envision an athlete pounding away at the water, racing from one end of the pool to the other. But you don't have to break speed records to reap the rewards of swimming back and forth, and you don't even have to do the competitive swimming stroke known as the crawl.
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