Why Swimmers Are Smarter Than You

Rented Mule · 30-11-2012 12:55pm #1

http://news.menshealth.com/why-swimmers-are-smarter/2012/11/27/

Middle school may have been a helluva lot easier if you had spent a little more time in the pool. New research out of Australia says that children who are taught to swim at an early age hit certain physical and developmental milestones faster than kids who learn later in life.

Over the span of 3 years, researchers surveyed the parents of more than 7,000 children age 5 and under and found that the age kids learned to swim correlated with when they began accomplishing certain skills. In pre-school, early swimmers had better visual-motor skills (like cutting paper and drawing lines and shapes), but also fared better as they got older (i.e. understanding directions, math, and writing and reading skills).

I'm sure that all of the swimmer already knew this before opening this thread.....because we're smarter

Burkatron · 03-12-2012 9:37am

Rented Mule wrote: »

http://news.menshealth.com/why-swimmers-are-smarter/2012/11/27/

Middle school may have been a helluva lot easier if you had spent a little more time in the pool. New research out of Australia says that children who are taught to swim at an early age hit certain physical and developmental milestones faster than kids who learn later in life.

Over the span of 3 years, researchers surveyed the parents of more than 7,000 children age 5 and under and found that the age kids learned to swim correlated with when they began accomplishing certain skills. In pre-school, early swimmers had better visual-motor skills (like cutting paper and drawing lines and shapes), but also fared better as they got older (i.e. understanding directions, math, and writing and reading skills).

I'm sure that all of the swimmer already knew this before opening this thread.....because we're smarter

Maaan, I was in the pool on a weekly basis as soon as the Dr. gave my mom the go ahead, was in regular lessons from the age of 4 & swam copetitively till I was 18! I'm 29, I still cant stay inside the lines in my colouring books,my books consist of illustrations & wiggledy finger puppets I suck at maths & I get directions from my phone!! What a way to start Monday, I'm more broken then I thought! :P

juan.kerr · 03-12-2012 9:48am

Burkatron wrote: »

Maaan, I was in the pool on a weekly basis as soon as the Dr. gave my mom the go ahead, was in regular lessons from the age of 4 & swam copetitively till I was 18! I'm 29, I still cant stay inside the lines in my colouring books,my books consist of illustrations & wiggledy finger puppets I suck at maths & I get directions from my phone!! What a way to start Monday, I'm more broken then I thought! :P

Your typing and spelling are okay though, so it's not all bad.