The Effects of Practicing Swimming on the Psychological Tone in Adulthood

Swimming is the only sport to be recommended in more than 80% of the medical cases and to have a large target audience, accessible to both children and the elderly. From a psychological perspective, swimming reduces the mental tensions and anxiety, caused by everyday stress and the competition one, while avoiding hostility and frustration in life, in a beneficial way. What we propose in this paper is to highlight the role and importance of practicing swimming for the mental tone in adulthood. Women and men go through adulthood and old age in personal and complex manners, which involve numerous social, psychological and biological processes. The study results show that regular swimming practice has significant effects in terms of psychological tone in adulthood. It appears that women are more optimistic than men, as the average of this variable is greater for them than for men, both with the initial testing and with the final testing. As the significance level is statistically significant for both moments of the research, this allows us to say that the practice of swimming in adulthood has significant influence on the mental tone.