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Lowell Bush, who’s logged many meters in the the indoor pool at Greenwood since it opened in 1987, supplied me with the following article from The Denver Post, March 15, 2005.
The Fountain of Youth Actually a Swimming Pool?
An exercise specialist believes it’s possible to swim yourself young. Joel Stager, and Indiana University exercise physiologist, studied the blood pressure, muscle mass, blood chemistry and lung function of 200 over-50 swimmers at a U.S. Masters Swimming championship. The swimmers’ bodies were functioning at levels comparable to much younger people, he found. Stager says any amount of swimming is beneficial, but swimming about two to three milesabout 3,500 to 5,000-three to five times a week could actually postpone the aging process by decades. “We’re starting to find out that a lot of decline is probably related to a decline in activity rather than aging per se, “Stager says.
