Swimming is an excellent method of helping the healing process without stress to the bones and joints while stretching the tendons and muscles. The traditional swimming pool offers many benefits. This includes:

*Relieves stress on joints
*Provides greater resistance
*Develops muscle groups not easily attainable with normal ground-based program

Swimming is an excellent way to recondition a horse after an injury or surgery, or to improve fitness. Swimming provides the ideal medium to achieve, or maintain, a high level of fitness and condition without the dangers and potential injury that are inherent in track and ground workouts.

Swimming also assists in the development and strengthening of certain muscle groups,   primarily the hind end, diaphragm and shoulder muscles. Building the diaphragm promotes stronger and deeper breathing control for better oxygenation of the blood. Building hind end and shoulder muscles gives greater strength and power, providing greater speed, control and balance.