...Swimming Survival Whenever learning swimming it is very important to not only get better in a fitness aspect and a way of staying healthy, but one of the most important things to learn about while swimming is swimming to survive. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2004, there were 3,308 unintentional drowning’s in the United States, an average of nine people per day. Also according to the American Academy of Pediatrics it is estimated that for each drowning death, there are 1 to 4 nonfatal submersions serious enough to result in hospitalization. Children who still require cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the time they arrive at the emergency department have a poor prognosis, with at least half of survivors suffering significant neurologic impairment. There are many different instances in which the ability to swim affectively can save yours or somebody else’s life in a certain situation. Some of these situations include flood, ocean, river or even your basic swimming pool can all produce its own level of hazards or obstacles that can potentially cause saver injury or death. One technique that will help in some of these situations according to essortment.com is back floating also known as "sculling," the back float is performed by lying flat on your back with your feet relaxed and slightly apart. Your arms are at your sides moving slowly side-to-side. If you feel yourself sinking, raise your chin putting your head further back in the...
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...STATE UNIVERSITY LA PAZ, ILOILO CITY I. INTRODUCTION SWIMMING Swimming is an aquatic sport which is based on the human act of swimming. Basically, the goal of swimming sport is to complete a given distance in the smallest time. Different swimming competitions are held which are totally based on speed and endurance such as crossing an English Channel. Swimming as a sport, is different from other aquatic sports like diving, synchronized swimming and water polo that involves the act of swimming but the goal is neither speed nor endurance. However, it is widely believe that swimming is the best aerobic exercise in the world. During 19th century, competitive swimming became very popular and the international swimming association, Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) was formed in the year 1908. Professional swimming develops with the formation of this swimming association. There are thirty six officially individual swimming events including 18 male events and 18 female events. These competitive swimming events are governed and organized by FINA. However, among 36 events only 34 of them are recognized by the International Olympic Committee which includes 17 male and 17 female. (Source: sportslister.com/swimming) WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY LA PAZ, ILOILO CITY II. HISTORY SWIMMING The sport of swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Agepaintings from around 7,000 years ago. Written...
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...Swimming competitively is one of the most difficult and challenging sports there is. Why? Because like basketball, football, baseball or any other team sport you can never "win" the game, because a swimmers main goal is to improve there time not to win. Of course all swimmers like to win though. Part of what make swimming so difficult is not just the in the water part but also what is called "dry-land", which is various exercises a swimmer would do on land to work there swim specific muscles in a more specific way. Most dry-land programs consist of running, sit- ups, push ups, and weight training. Weight training is done differently than in football because swimmers want to be tone but not weighed down by excess muscle. Swimmers use less weight but do more repetitions than most athletes. Another thing that makes swimming harder that most people don't realize is that swimmers get little to no attention especially compared to the "big money sports" like basketball, football, and baseball. A question many top swimmers are asked is "Are you a pro swimmer". The answer from everyone is "No, there is no professional swimming. I am a competitive swimmer-an amateur competitive swimmer." (Swimming World March 1997, Phillip Whitten) When there is no money in a sport it seems to get over looked. Most swimmers practice twice a day during their season. Olympic swimmer Jeremy Linn swims about 12,000 meters a day (Swimming World March 1997). Each practice has its physical demands, but...
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...personal preference, and event(s) being swum as with actual science. Extremely warm or cold temps are bad for obvious reasons. Some swimmers like the jolt colder water gives while others feel like it tightens their muscles. Some swimmers like the warm water because there is no jolt and their muscled stay loose. Others overheat. As a result, your preference and experience coupled with the kind of event you are swimming will have a large impact. Generally, upper 70's (Fahrenheit) is considered a good temperature, but this is highly debatable. There is little debate over the theory that temperature plays a part in a pool's speed. There is, however, a lot of debate over what is the ideal temperature. We believe, no one right answer will ever surface, but a range of temps for particular body weights and fat percentages and events may eventually surface. For now, just use your experiences as a guide.Air Quality. This characteristic plays a large role in how the swimmers perform. Low humidity, relatively cool temperatures, low elevation, and clean air make for ideal swimming. Since the air a swimmer breathes provides the body's muscles with the oxygen to help it to perform, it only makes sense that better air equates to better swims. As most parents of swimmers know, good air quality is rare in most pools. But as anyone who has ever swam at some of the best pools in the world will tell you, most of the fastest pools have excellent climate and air quality. As with water temperature...
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...completing the task and relying on another persons advise. If we relate this quote towards the way we learn in university, it can relate towards the way that many students may establish the way of learning in university, and rather than being practical and focusing within lessons and attempting all tasks and completing coursework, many students may always rely on the help of other students and take their notes to revise and complete work this way they will not be learning on the basis of their own effort and putting in the hard work leading to them not being able to learn anything. Relating back to this quote if a person wants to learn how to swim without getting wet, there are many alternatives to this, for instance practicing the swimming movements that you will need to know to help you to begin to learn to swim. However practicing inside water and practicing out of water can be a very different experience, and still not teach you how to be able to swim properly, this goes for if we took a persons advice and their experience on how to be able to swim and the different techniques that would need to be used, even despite knowing what we would need to do it would still be difficult for us to jump straight into the water and be able to adapt ourselves into this situation. In conclusion I feel that in order for us to ‘learn how to swim without getting wet’ it is necessary for us to actually get in the water and learn how to swim rather than taking the advise of other...
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...Swimming is one of the most popular sports in Australia. Our nation is surrounded by water and swimming is one of our great passions. As well as being fun, swimming is a great way to keep fit, stay healthy and make friends. Swimming is a healthy activity that you can continue for a lifetime. It is a low-impact activity that has many physical and mental health benefits. Swimming for recreation Swimming is a great recreational activity for people of all ages. Recreational swimming can provide you with a low-impact workout and it’s also a good way to relax and feel good. Common swimming styles in recreational swimming are breaststroke, backstroke, side stroke and freestyle. Competitive swimming Some people who enjoy swimming want to take it to a competitive level. This can provide the health benefits of a vigorous workout as well as the fun and thrill of competition. The main strokes used in competitive swimming are breaststroke, freestyle, backstroke and butterfly. The distances swum in competition swimming can vary from 50 metres in a pool to much further distances in open water. Health benefits Swimming is a great workout because you need to move your whole body against the resistance of the water. Swimming is a good all-round activity because it: Keeps your heart rate up but takes some of the impact stress off your body Builds endurance, muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness Helps maintain a healthy weight, healthy heart and lungs Tones muscles and...
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...“Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do was learn how to swim. I was always afraid of the water, but I decided that swimming was an important skill that I should learn, .I also thought it would be good exercise and help me to become physically stronger. What I didn't realize was that learning to swim would also make me a more confident person. New situations always make me a bit nervous, and my first swimming lesson was no exception. After I changed into my bathing suit in the locker room, I stood timidly by the side of the pool waiting for the teacher and other students to show up. After a couple of minutes the teacher came over. She smiled and introduced herself, and two more students joined us. Although they were both older than me, they didn't seem to be embarrassed about not knowing how to swim. I began to feel more at ease.” Learning to swim made my summers more enjoyable by making my time in the water safer. As a teen that didn’t know how to swim I was terrified by the thoughts of drowning, afraid to look weak or ashamed for not knowing how to swim. Learning how to swim increase my self-confidence and eliminated my fears of drowning. I had to overcome the fear of the water that was a huge step for me. Before deciding to take swimming lesson, I would spend many days on the side of the pool also walking in the shallow end. My instructor started my first lesson with kicking, holding on to the side...
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...The Challenges of Swimming Most everyone has been swimming at least once in their life, but competitive swimming is more than just floating in water. Competitive swimming, from the inception in 1896, has greatly evolved to the sport it is today. It includes four strokes which are; Front stroke, Back stroke, Breast stroke, and Butterfly. Swimming is one of the hardest sports in the world because of the mental and physical attributions. On the mental side of swimming, there are many factors that can make or break a swimmer. One factor is how focused you have to be to swim not only well, but outstanding. A swimmer has to clear their mind completely before entering the water. Mental toughness is defined as “having the natural or developed psychological edge that enables you to: generally cope better than your opponents with the many demands that spurt places on a performer” by Jones, Hanton and Connaughton, three authors (Jones, Handto, and Connaughton. 2002, p209). These three authors conducted research on thirty elite swimmers and concluded that “mental toughness” can be categorized into four dimensional framework, which included one general dimension, (attitude/mindset), and three time specific dimensions (training, competition, and post competition) (187). A swimmer’s attitude and mindset can control how they will do in the competition. If a swimmer is feeling low or terrible on how they will do in a race, the swimmer will actually do poorly because...
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...ἰ HISTORY Swimming can be dated back to the Stone Age, but did not truly become an organised sport until the early 19th century. AN ANCIENT DISCIPLINE Prehistoric man learnt to swim in order to cross rivers and lakes – we know this because cave paintings from the Stone Age depicting swimmers have been found in Egypt. Swimming was also referred to in Greek mythology. DAWN OF A SPORT Swimming was not widely practised until the early 19th century, when the National Swimming Society of Great Britain began to hold competitions. Most early swimmers used the breaststroke, or a form of it. DISCOVERING THE CRAWL Based on a stroke used by native South Americans, the first version of the crawl featured a scissor kick. In the late 1880s, an Englishman named Frederick Cavill travelled to the South Seas, where he saw the natives performing a crawl with a flutter kick. Cavill settled in Australia, where he taught the stroke that was to become the famous Australian crawl. OLYMPIC HISTORY Swimming has featured on the programme of all editions of the Games since 1896. The very first Olympic events were freestyle (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904. In the 1940s, breaststrokers discovered that they could go faster by bringing both arms forward over their heads. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststroke, but gave birth to butterfly, whose first official appearance was at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. This style is now one of the four strokes used in competition...
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...Let go of your fear. A lot of people put off learning how to swim because they're afraid of drowning. While drownings do occur, most of them could have been prevented by simple safety measures. Follow these guidelines whenever you're swimming, and the odds of drowning will decrease dramatically: • Never swim alone. Always go swimming with one other person who is a strong swimmer, if not several other people. • Don't start out swimming in moving water. If you're learning to swim in an ocean or river, you'll need to be more aware of the motion of the water. If you must learn to swim this way, try to make sure you're with someone who knows what he or she is doing, and be sure to read the step about getting out of a riptide or a rushing river (below). • Stay within a depth you can handle. When you're first learning how to swim, don't venture into water that's too deep for you to stand in. That way, if something goes amiss, you can simply stand up and breathe. • Never swim during inclement weather conditions. Swimming in a light rain shower should be fine, but if you see or hear a storm approaching, get out of the water immediately. This rule is to be followed regardless of how well you can swim. • Don't swim in water that's too cold. Moving your limbs to paddle can become suddenly difficult if you're in frigid water. Get used to floating. When you're in the water, hold on to the side of the pool or a dock, and let your legs float out behind you - they should lift easily if...
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...to slide Next in my room, I hit her from behind Doing and doing like I’m pressing rewind Cause I have never baby sitting, I be lining up shots I’ma show you how to turn it up a notch First you get a swimming pool full of liquor, then you dive in it Swimming pool full of liquor, then you dive in it I wave a few bottles, then I wash them apart All the girls wanna play Baywatch I got a swimming pool full of liquor and they dive in it pool full of liquor I’ma dive in it Pour up, drank, head shot, drank Sit down, drank, stand up, drank Pass out, drank, wake up, drank Faded, drank, faded, drank Now I done grew up Round some people living their life in bottles Granddaddy had the golden flask Back stroke every day in Chicago Some people like the way it feels Some people wanna kill their sorrows Some people wanna fit in with the popular That was my problem I was in the dark room -Loud tunes, looking to make a vow soon That I'ma get fucked up, fillin' up my cup I see the crowd mood Changing by the minute and the record on repeat Took a sip, then another sip, then somebody said to me Cause I have never baby sitting, I be lining up shots I’ma show you how to turn it up a notch First you get a swimming pool full of liquor, then you dive in it Swimming pool full of liquor, then you dive in it I wave a few bottles, then I wash them apart All the...
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...A. Website address: URL: http://www.swimmingwithoutstress.co.uk/about-us.html B. Description of the website: This website is established by some coach in UK. In order to help people overcome the fear of water, there are a lot of information about swimming in this website which can be divided into two core parts. For the first part, it is the swimming theory. The readers, especially for the beginning, can refer to the “Swimmer Experiences”, “Swimming technique” and “Swimming advice”. Not only words, there are many pictures and videos to explain the theory so that the readers can clearly understand the complicated theory. Apart from the theory, there is online shop for the swimming products. Except the swimming basis, there are some poolside products which can let the swimming process more convenient, like Goggle Case and lens cleans. These two products can protect the goggle. Moreover, there are training aids for the swimmers to improve their swimming skills while practise. For instance, the Sphere Microfin Hp and Sphere Fitness Gloves can help the swimmer to feel the strength of hands and legs. C. Name any information from the website that can help to improve your swimming skill. These two parts of the website provide some basic reminder for the swimmers, as the writers of the blogs focus on some common problems that the swimmer will face. One of them is quite inspiring, it is about breathing. Unlike the traditional way of teaching beginner to swim which is ...
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...Physical And Education PROJECT Proposal Project proposal The project is all about Advance swimming and explanations every step of swimming technique and each phase/skill. Advance Freestyle Advance Breastroke Video (explanation) * Right arm pull 3 counts * Right arm pull 2 counts * Basic backstroke Advance swimming: * Advance Freestyle A competition in which the contestant is given more latitude than in related events, “especially “ swimming competition in which the swimmer may use any stroke. The freestyle stroke, also known as front crawl, is the fastest and most efficient of the competitive Swimming Stroke. That's why it is always used in the freestyle event of swimming competitions and is also often the preferred stroke of experienced swimmers and triathletes. Your arms execute alternating movements. One arm moves backwards in the water from an overhead position towards the hip and provides propulsion. The other arm recovers above water from the hip towards the overhead position. Afterwards your arms exchange their roles. Your legs do the flutter kick, which means they are extended and kick downwards and upwards in the water with pointed toes. This is a simple and efficient kicking technique. * Your head is in line with your trunk and you look straight down. * Both arms are extended overhead. Your palms are turned downward. * You kick using a supple flutter kick. The Swim Stroke's Cycle: 1. The wrist of your propulsive...
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...populations; however, in swimming many of these can be swapped out for better performance and reduced risk of injury. Consider making the following tweaks to optimize your dryland training program. The 5 Most Over-Prescribed Dryland Exercises for Swimmers 5. Barbell Overhead Press As...
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...stands and prepare for the 100m breast stroke. Ever since I was a young child I had loved being in the water. In the neighborhood I lived in I was able to go to the pool every day in the summer, and it became a second home to me. Many long days were spent at the YMCA pool in Cornelius where I would play common pool games and compete in races with all the other kids. As I grew up I continued to stay in the water with the introduction of new hobbies such as surfing and wakeboarding. After what appeared to be ages, senior year came around and I decided I wanted to swim competitively for my school, something I had never done in the past. After training for a couple of months I found myself doing well and after a great season I ended up swimming in our regional championship meet. With the ongoing race coming to a close, I stand up and cheer for my teammate. “You’ve got this Elliot finish strong, only a few more pulls and you’ve got him!” The race ends, every swimmers’ hands touching the walls within seconds of each other. Coach Marsh walks over to the edge of the pool and congratulates Elliot for qualifying for the final round. “Go sit down and...
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