What muscles does swimming work?

One of the great aspects of swimming is that it works the muscles all over your body. With regards to good technique and what stroke you are doing these will differ. For freestyle we try to work the lats - the larger muscles rather than the smaller muscles in the shoulder, your obliques on your core along the side of your stomach. The leg muscles glutes are worked with kicking. Breastroke swimmers with the wide legs movements work the abductor and adductor thigh muscles.