https://community.usms.org/swimming/f/general/6773/swimming-makes-you-smarterHow Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter Robin Nixon Special to LiveScience LiveScience.com Wed Aug 6, 9:40 AM ET Athletes and people who exercise not only have better bods - they have better brains too, a host of studies have now firmly establisheden-USTelligent Community 12https://community.usms.org/thread/99680?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:43:18 GMT3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:b1ef18c6-65b5-44a9-8bc6-46d2c3648d6dFormer MemberI&#39;d have to agree that aerobic exercise in general is good for the brain. Swimming I&#39;m not so sure about. The first open water race I ever entered was cancelled due to rough conditions at the last possible moment... so of course a whole bunch of us got suited up and went for a swim anyway. :rolleyes: No doubt our judgement was impaired by snorting pool chemicals up our sinuses for years on end. :laugh2:<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.usms.org/thread/99780?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:43:18 GMT3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:a423aa7f-001a-40af-ade2-4d7a8179827fSLOmmafanI came to doubt my intelligence over 4 years of 5 am practices (with after school practices as well) during high school. I tended to be a bit &quot;water-logged&quot; through most of first period, but it did keep me out of trouble (minus the occasional nod-off mid lecture).<div style="clear:both;"></div>