Health Benefits of Snorkeling. Why should you choose guided snorkeling snorkel tours in Waikiki?

Some may consider snorkeling fun and relaxing adventure, others see it as a sport. However, there is something magical in the opportunity to explore and become the one with a mysterious and majestic marine world.
But along with excitement, fun, and lifetime memories, snorkeling have certain recognized health benefits, which makes it a perfect activity for all ages and any kind of vacation. And while snorkeling will be the #1 recommended activity once you visit Waikiki, in this article we shall describe all the benefits of guided snorkeling that will help you get the most from your experience.

Relax and Let it go

From all the benefits of Snorkeling at Waikiki, stress relief might be #1. Nothing helps you forget your everyday routine and anxiety better than observing the majestic underwater scenery. This is an opportunity to visit an ultimately new world without having to leave Earth. You won`t believe all the wonders and exotic discoveries the underwater world is ready to reveal to you.
And once you use the services of professional guides, who know all the peculiarities of the Waikiki underwater landscape, you get a chance to receive a VIP invitation to the most sacred view sides and see the ultimate gems of the underwater world, hidden from laymen.

Fitness and Cardio

Water fitness becomes the hottest trend in the wellness industry today as a fun and engaging way to stay fit, develop flexibility and maintain cardiovascular health. Once you snorkel for the very first time in your life, you will instantly notice that it activates every muscle of your body, making you more flexible, strong, and agile. At the same time, snorkeling will improve your heart rate and blood circulation. It is a perfect activity for prophylactics of high cholesterol, heart disease, and high blood pressure.
However, snorkeling may have certain contraindications once you already have significant health complications. That is why it is highly recommended to prefer guided snorkeling tours. The supervision of a professional who is aware of all the safety protocols will guarantee your safe and joyful snorkeling experience. Also, a guide will gladly recommend breathing and movement technics most suitable for your physical condition and swimming skills.

Muscle strengthening

Except for flexibility and cardio effect, snorkeling can become a powerful strength and resistance workout. Using different techniques that our guides are happy to demonstrate to you, you can concentrate on any group of your muscles, having a comprehensive workout while observing the underwater treasures.
Seawater provides additional resistance, making your habitual quads, hamstrings, calves, ankles, hip flexors, core, and shoulders workout even more efficient. Moreover, eliminating gravity, snorkeling will help you discover ways to exercise and develop muscles and body parts that you might have found quite challenging before.
So if you have been looking at snorkeling as an entertainment option only, our guides will help you discover new opportunities and benefits Waikiki snorkeling has to offer.

Low joints impact

Waikiki is famous all over the world for its majestic nature and breathtaking scenery. Observing all the wonders of this unique land may take a lot of traveling all over the land. However, sometimes all that walking and wondering around may become pretty challenging end even tiresome. Especially for those who are dealing with joint wear off or trauma. But this is not a reason to deprive yourself of the wonders of Waikiki wildlife. Guided snorkeling is a perfect opportunity for anyone to embrace the wonders of untouched Hawaiian nature without the exhausting long walks and excruciating joint pains.

Increase lung function and discover therapeutic breathing techniques

Snorkeling may be similar to swimming and diving, but it has its peculiarities. The special breathing technics you will learn during your guided snorkeling experience are among them. Not only they will help you feel literary like a fish in the water, but those breathing practices may appear pretty handy throughout your whole life.
Scientific research proves the impact of breathing techniques on chronic pains. It helps stabilize oxygen circulation in your blood helping your brain block and eliminate faulty signals from the nerve system that cause chronic pains.
Another therapeutic application of snorkeling is post-traumatic physiotherapy. There are several obvious benefits of this technic:

• Swimming in water helps release muscle tension and takes the burden of joints;
• Concentrating on your breath, you switch attention off your pains;
• Observing wildlife and vast underwater spaces is beneficial for your mental health, stress, and anxiety relief.

Overcome phobias and discover new opportunities

Modern people have lots of phobias. Most of them are connected with the lack of control and panic attacks that occur once we appear in an unhabitual environment. Being a unique opportunity to immerse into an unknown world, snorkeling can become an opportunity for you to overcome your phobias and take ultimate control over your fears and instincts.
Starting at shallow waters our qualified instructors will smoothly introduce you to the vast and limitless treasures of the Waikiki underwater world. Step-by-step you will learn to abandon your habitual mental restrictions and let yourself embrace all the treasures and benefits that guided snorkeling has to offer.

Mental health benefits

Just like any physical activity, snorkeling provides a powerful release of endorphins. It also requires certain breathing techniques, which help to release tension and even soothe chronic pains, having a powerful impact on your mental health. Our qualified guides will gladly demonstrate to you those techniques that will help you fully enjoy the majestic underwater scenery and the unique opportunity to become one with Nature.
Giving and preserving life, the ocean serves as a powerful conductor between your conscious and vibrations of wild nature, allowing you to relax, let go and learn to go with the flow. Snorkeling is one of those activities that demonstrates how vast and undiscovered or the world is and what is our role in it. Those observations may become a powerful therapeutic experience with a vast impact on your mental wellbeing.

Available excitement

Snorkeling is an activity for everyone. Children can do snorkeling from the age of 10. Seniors also don’t face any aging restrictions in guided snorkeling groups. It is available and pretty beneficial for pregnant women.
Even if you don’t swim or have quite a modest experience with physical activity, you may enjoy all the benefits of guided snorkeling in Waikiki with our qualified experts. We shall make sure that your experience will be comfortable and safe.

The ultimate connection with Nature

The world ocean remains mysterious even for modern science. Only 2% of the marine world entirely studied and mapped. It means that snorkeling allows you to ultimately become the one with a virgin and untouched world that lives its mysterious life covered from the technical progress.
Even the most protected on-land nature reserves leave you with a realization of human impact on nature. The underwater world lives according to its own rules and rhythm, which remains a mystery for people. However, it allows those who come with respect and a positive attitude to get in touch with its vibes and discover its wonders. Our snorkeling experts will gladly become your guides to the majestic and mysterious underwater world of Waikiki.
Observing the wildlife – turtles, fishes, corals, and other underwater treasures is an educational experience for children and relaxing therapy for grown-ups. Nothing bonds families, couples, and friends like a unique opportunity to get in touch with an undiscovered mystery. Your guided snorkeling in Waikiki will become a lifetime memory. We also offer photoshoot services that will help you preserve and cherish those memories.

We hope now you see all the benefits of Waikiki snorkeling and seriously think about adding this activity to your schedule next time you visit Hawaii. However, we want to remind you that although snorkeling is a fun and accessible activity for everyone, it may still have some restrictions and health contraindications. That is why you should always prefer guided snorkeling tours in Waikiki to make sure that your experience will be not just fun and educational but also safe and secure.
And of course, it is always easier to discover the hidden gems of a vast underwater world with a qualified guide who knows the landscape, its peculiarities and can take you to hidden locations that don`t reveal their secrets to every layman.
Contact us next time you plant your Hawaii rip and learn about various activity options we have to offer. Except for snorkeling tours we offer romantic sunset tours, whale watching, and various boating tours for couples, families, and groups of friends. Discover all the beauties of virgin Hawaiian nature, its majestic and healing energy, and take home lifetime memories and unforgettable experiences.