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Swim Don’t Sit: Sitting (before or after mat practice) not only widens your hips, it hikes your risk of heart disease. Why? The more you kick back, the harder it is for your body to process blood sugar and blood fats levels,  activities that require contraction of the muscles. What workout trumps all the rest? Swimming, concludes a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Swimming Pool Foundation.  Swimmers appear to have lower death rates than sedentary people, runners or walkers.