Learn the Lingo and Swim Your First Workout If you don’t have a coach to put a workout together for you, tons of swimming web sites list workouts you can do.

“That’s always a good first step just to gain confidence in what you’re able to do,” says Kristopher Gagne, a USA Swimming–certified swim coach in Houston.

Swimming three times a week for 30 minutes at a time can help you lose weight and belly fat. Experts explain the types of swim strokes and weight loss tips.

Learning to swim is both a survival skill, and a good way to get exercise. We'll give instructions on how to do certain strokes, as well as beginning tips for adults and kids.

Swimming and paddling aren’t just refreshing — they can offer low-impact ways to get fit. The pull of gravity doesn’t feel as strong underwater, and water provides a lot of resistance.

With summer just around the corner, family medicine physician Dr. Jen Caudle stops by TODAY with tips on how to stay safe around water, including at what age a child should learn to swim, safety ...

Fitness pros share their favorite exercises to do in the swimming pool. (Getty Creative) Let’s be honest: The last thing you want to do on a hot summer day is go for a run. But just because the ...

Even though swimming is easy on the body, exercising underwater can still feel fundamentally unnatural. So it’s not surprising that you might need more instruction as an adult to do it well.

First Strokes, a nonprofit based in New York City, is helping students learn water safety skills and how to swim. They offer free swimming lessons for teens — taught by other teens.

It almost seems too fun to be effective, but swimming can burn fat, too. "It's just like any other aerobic exercise, in that we use both fat and carbohydrates for energy as we swim," Cindy Dallow ...

Christina Macfarlane goes to find out how to be part of a synchronized swimming team with the Hungary national team ahead of the FINA World Championships.