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Both are equal exercises. If you do both it's even better. Both are good exercises, but swimming is better because it uses every muscle in the body and because the buoyancy of the water less traumatic on the body. When I worked out at the University of British Columbia I would spend my lunch hour doing a few laps. It keeps you in great shape.

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