When i turned 50 I turned to swimming to keep moving after rheumatoid arthritis began to take its toll on my regular weights and martial arts routine. Swimming in ice cold water or the ocean in the winter has improved my health & overall joint pain immensely. Swimming can also be a great zen gateway for learning to meditate as it can focus your breathing when that ice cold burn hits you during the swim.

I had basically no visible muscle through middle school, despite being one of the top in my grade for cross country. Then, in 7th grade, I join a winter swimming team with the high school. I knew so little about competitive swimming they basically have to teach me how to swim all over again. I wasn't going too well, and almost quit in the first 4 or so weeks. But then, I started to get the form right on stuff. Then I had rapid, daily improvement. I went from not even being able to do the butterfly to being able to do two laps consecutively in just a week. Needless to say, I go the most improved award, and when I went back to running, everyone immediately brought up how I was kinda jacked, which I hadn't really noticed. Swimming does a lot, so if any of you have spare time in the summer or winter, join a swim team or club. I could deadlift 200 at 13 with no prior attempts, all because of good ol' winter swimming. Though the water was like, 68 degrees F because the water heater was always half broken...

A Water Samurai has to be the most badass things I’ve ever heard of in a long time

That had so much info in less than 10 mins. Plus, it's making me want to look for a nearby pool and schedule swimming into my routine. Good job mate.

Hell yeah brother I've been meaning to join my local aquatic centre. The way you present information is exactly my style, thank you for putting out awesome content

Off topic but that Mike Tyson Pushup from your last video is the best exercise I've ever done!!

ive always known how important swimming was despite never knowing how to swim or making an effort to learn, but after watchin this vid, i am beyond fascinated and determined to become an advanced swimmer one day. AMAZING work

As a lifetime swimmer for more than 50 years, I can't but agree! And there were quite a lot of facts even I didn't know. Great video.

"Go into the water. Live there, die there" - Nathan Explosion

The Bajau people is exactly who I’ve been talking about with friends recently it amazes me that humans can achieve such superhuman feats once we develop new skills in our chosen environment 💪💪😎

This channel is a great mix of anthropology and animation, very educational. TYSM!!!!

All I'm hearing is any baby I have will be familiarized with the process of baptism until they're old enough to choose to be baptized, and they'll be swimming and sprinting.

I used to stand up to my neck in a pool and practice tai chi. It's a great way to test your body alignment and get used to moving slowly and with intention. Teacher Cheng Man Ching described the feeling of tai chi movement as "swimming on dry land" and having practiced for a couple of decades now, I see what he means. Got to get back to swimming

I was born and raised on an island. Needless to say, me and my cousins were always at the beach, swimming even in treacherous waves and running in sand. We were all naturally ripped. We didn’t even try to be. Just this lifestyle made us like that. Now, I live in a big international city, I gained a ton of weight, and I’m struggling to lose it.

Thank you. Was a dedicated swimmer in College, Stopped after graduated. I swim every now and then. I want to get back 2 it. Currently have a broken hand, this is probably going to be great therapy to rehab my hand.

These animations and drawings are truly amazing!! You are very talented and I really enjoy watching your videos!! Keep it up😁

Ok. So about the sea food. In my region in settlements dated with stone age we find literally hills of river oyster shells. Of course humans settled near fresh water, cause they needed source for it. Noone dug wells back then. As for children having swimming reflex - they swam most of their existence in mother's belly. It makes sense.

I've always loved swimming as a kid, But now that I'm almost 30 I've chosen swimming as my main exercise. All I can say is that I'm the most fit I've ever been in my life, and If I keep this up there is no reason to slowly degrade as I approach my "older" years. All that " oh im 30 now, guess i'll have bad knee's" couldn't be further from the truth.

The quality of content in these videos is phenomenonal.. One my favourite channel by far.

Forgot to mention the butterfly stroke. Swimming the butterfly stroke builds insane whole body fitness, given the individual is performing it with decent technique to avoid swimmers shoulder. If you have muscle to do it it can be a game changer.

Mad I just said my self yesterday that I should swim more for max human gains, now this video comes out a day later….

The swimming pool got closed for two weeks, the toll on my mental health was great.

I Swam everyday for a month and by the end of it I got used to my body being heavier so when it came to my regular weight training and basketball my muscles were able to stay under stress for a lot more time / reps ( this is the only benefit I distinctly remember but there were many more)

Makes me think of the book, The Aquatic Ape…you should look that up. Great read and very thought provoking

I haven't swam in water for 20 years much to my dismay. I miss it so much. I need to face my ears and just swim tomorrow with a shirt on. Body issues, lovely right? When I was in the water, I was always more under it, than I was over it. Always crawling along the seabed floor.

Excellent video! I always learn something new while watching.

Man I'm loving your channel!! would be ecstatic to see ya'll make a video about Tennis! cheers

This video is perfect for this hot summer we're having. If you are going to be spending time in water, might as well make it count ❤💪

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming Swimming! Swimming! Swimming! What do we do? We swim! Swim! Swim!

Damn, swimmer's knee is a thing, didn't know that.

Great video and love the illustrations. As a frustrated (due to injury) open water swimmer, it is always great to recap and even learn more.

the disrespect to the butterfly lol

Your channel is without a doubt my favourite I love the topics you delve into and research 👊👊 mucho’s gracias amigo 🫶

Been swimming a lot. And I've been a great swimmer since a very young child.

Really love your channel and content mate. Great stuff, keep the videos coming

this should be shown in schools

Just like the band, TOOL sings... Learn to swim 🌊

Eddie hall built his base as an elite swimmer before he hit strong man and has a world record deadlift and arguably the strongest shoulders in the world, coincidence?

I just discovered your content and Im loving it, cant wait to watch and learn from all your videos. I love the animations too! So beautiful do you do these yourself?

I've never heard of any of these injuries lol. I don't doubt that they exist, but in my 7 or so years of swimming 3-6 times a week to a reasonable level as a kid/teenager I can't think of a single time anybody I swam with ever got injured doing so. The closest I can think of is myself being on and off hurt in the groin area by the breaststroke kick (never serious, it really only impacted me swimming breaststroke and only slightly lol), but then I'm unusually inflexible and I never knew anybody else have this issue. For reference, I once couldn't sit on a quad bike when I was around a friend's house. I wasn't injured in any way at the time, it just had a very wide seat and I couldn't make that angle. I was barely able to play a game of cricket without picking up some sort of minor (or sometimes major) injury, but swimming was "smooth sailing" (sorry 🤣). I guess this is why I'm so "veiny". At ~30% BF% I can easily track multiple veins all the way from my hands to my mid chest in any lighting. I never knew. Thanks. P.S. Freestyle isn't the name of a stroke. The stroke you were referencing is front crawl. Freestyle simply means "you can use any legal stroke", and obviously everybody swims front crawl.

Yet again an amazing video. Thanks for the amazing work 🎉 But have you seen @Urban Leo, move through the trees yet?

The aquatic ape theory was very interesting!

I found your comments on an enlarged spleen interesting as I started swimming regularly a couple of years ago and I just had a physical which showed an enlarged spleen

Swimming is awesome, so is yoga. Add in some circuit training and a static bodyweight regime and you are complete.

2:40 you do realize that reflex is called the *mammalian* dive reflex, right? It's present in all mammals lol

I need to learn how to swim, badly! 😂

I feel like I found a treasure. Your channel looks awesome!

Damm, I dont know if I've ever learned so much in so little time.

Can you talk about the effects of climbing on the Human body please ?

Saludos desde Venezuela que buenos videos amigo!!

The problem I have is with chlorine in pools and sharks in salt water and disease in freshwater.

Great video. Thanks for sharing!

really deep rabbit hole why we are half monkey half seal... you can find the holy grail following that path. imho.

Nice video! You just got 1 subscriber more!

Long term swimming can also decrease bone density.

You can weigh yourself before and after swimming to see if you sweat underwater

I get really bad swimmers' knee, even after about 9 months of consistent swimming (because I have to do eggbeater kick / alternating breaststroke kick for water polo). I was very sedentary as a teenager so it's hard for me to get that hip flexibility but I'm trying to strengthen and increase flexibility in the adductors and hip flexors. I find it very hard to find proper stretching exercises or training programs for treating swimmers' knee or breaststroke knee even though it should be such a common issue, I would appreciate it if anyone can recommend :)

Great video. Lots of information, I loved it

Aww what about butterfly?! That's the hardest stroke in my opinion.

Love that you didn't even include butterfly stroke. Stupid thing. PTSD from getting that as an event in swim meets when I was younger.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO BRO, finally ama show my wife❤😂

Props for hiring an artist instead of using ai

If I swim every week how much better will my stamina be?

The only person who makes me strong

Underwater shadow boxing!💪🙏 Sweat is Heaven!

Subbed, very cool.

9:06 (The Book of Five Rings) sounds like the Olympics to me!

Please teach us how to jump the highest peak.

Well, my Sport right now is swimming and I am really glad I am doing it!

W for the miyamoto musashi quote.

that s true mate this informations will benefits whom raised near seess rivers if they are going to this at the first hand. thank u

Very informative ! Thankyouu!

wow i don't even swim but i think i have swimmer knee on my left knee, i feel something similar when squatting

the strength you need to rescue a drowning person is highly underestimated since you see in movies that if you know how to swim you can rescue someone drowning and let me tell you right now its not as easy as it seems

I ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR CONTENT, I'M A WEEKLY SWIMMER.🙏🏽 💪 VIRGIN ISLANDS PEACE ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

We are hairless to allow us to sweat and therefore run long distances. Not for swimming.

Thanks for the video!

Great video, thank you.

Very nice and technical video

Dude forgot about butterfly stroke

Excellent

What about isometric exercise in the video

It's called front crawl, not freestyle, and I will die on that hill - or in that puddle.

What about chlorine in the pools?

Why no butterfly 😫

I was just wondering about this. There's these two sisters I know that are both my size or smaller and are both lean and athletic, the smaller and younger of the two quite muscular. Despite their somewhat inconsistent diet, they are really healthy and fast in the water, and have been taking many summers off to swim daily. Last timeI swam with them, the older one wanted to race. Knowing how much experience she had in the water, I reluctantly agreed. Sure enough, we raced and even with me going all out she still won by a second or so. Edit: I swam again with her a day ago, and she relayed to me how she was half impressed half irritated that I could keep up with her considering how much work she's put into swim meets and such.

I will say, the aquatic ape hypothesis is thoroughly debunked, even though humans do coincidentally have the adaptations mentioned here. Also, the dive reflex is present in most/all mammals, not just humans.

im currently swimming in our lake 3-4 times per week and i feel great physically and mentally. sadly summer wont last forever.

Great video!

The only point to note is that there is no impact with swimming, the body is always supported. Bones adapt and become stronger with the right amount of impact. I believe the same can be said for cyclists. Other than that swimming is perfect. Amazing sketches by the way!

Plzz Make a video on plyometric exercise to increase vertical jump 😊 for volleyball 🏐❤

Hi, i have a problem with my knee. It hurts the most when i go upstairs and I make big steps or i ride i bike. It hurst my inner part of the knee and I Wonder If it hurts because of that i swim. I swim the most by breast style and it hurts but not that much. I would be very glad If you could answer my question.

What’s most important about human that you haven’t mentioned is that a human is developed in a water environment while asleep in it for 9 months.. give it a thought

How do you breath when swimming?

Dive to 200 ft? 😂 Yeah right

can you make a video on how to do the standing hip abduction on your website

what software is this

What about swimming in chlorine?

That was awesome !

Peak fucking content as always 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️