Swimming styles

NURTURING SKILLS AND BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN THE WATER For more than 160 years, the YMCA has nurtured potential and united communities across America to create lasting, meaningful change. Everything the Y does is in service of building a better us. One of the most effective ways to accomplish this is to teach youth, teens, and adults to swim, so they can stay safe around water and learn the skills they need to make swimming a lifelong pursuit for staying healthy. Y swim instructors are nationally certified. Their training includes CPR, AED, First Aid and Oxygen Administration. Swim lessons provide important life skills that could save a life and will benefit students for a lifetime. WE’RE HERE FOR EVERYONE All ages—from infants to seniors—…

How to Get a Good Workout in the Pool Working out in the pool might not seem like the most effective way to slim down and shape up, but a pool-based workout burns a surprising number of calories, boosts your metabolism, works every muscle in your body, and improves your over-all fitness level. Working out in the swimming pool is so effective because water provides natural resistance – as it is almost 800 times denser than air – so each movement that you make while submerged in water works your…

fun. I don’t like going to the gym and working out because I get easily bored. Painting in the Cave in Egypt indicate that Ancient Egyptians were swimming 10,000 years ago. However the competitive swimming we know today started in Great Britain in 1837. Breaststroke is the most common style of swimming, Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. Backstroke the only one of these styles swum on the back, Butterfly stroke is a swimming…

Swimming is a professional sport that requires some high qualifications in fitness, commitment to training hours, etc. Many people who seek this sport are starting as amateurs and then moving to be professionals. Swimming includes many styles, such as backstroke, butterfly, etc. In this article, you will view a list of the top 10 greatest swimmers. 10- Mark Spitz Mark is deemed one of the greatest swimmers of all times. He gained 11 Olympic medals, so he is the fourth highest medalist in the…

Swimming has become an extremely popular and well-enjoyed sport or activity. But what most people do not know is the origin of this unique sport. Swimming can be dated all the way back to ancient times as prehistoric men had to swim in order to cross large bodies of water, but there were also many written works related swimming in the Early Modern Era and moreover, swimming eventually became a competitive sport during the 19th century. The competitiveness of swimming has translated into…

Have you ever seen someone dive off the diving board? Do you enjoy swimming? Well now I’m going to give you a little more information on swimming and what the physics of it is. You will see swimming in a whole different way. Gravity is always affecting you while swimming. Even you don’t think it is. Force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies fall toward the center of the earth. Newton’s first law of motion has a part to do with swimming. An object in motion stays in motion until another…

throughout the fall, it takes a true dedicated group of people to commit themselves to a task like that beginning daily at six A.M. Another discrepancy is the individualism that consists within the sport of swimming. To me this actually hurts the strength of the culture created. I believe that a culture is stronger when more people are working to reach a common goal. However, knowing Ross and the swim team this is not the case. All of the boys and girls on both teams push one another to achieve…

affected both women’s and men’s times. Yet, the men have surpassed this time and have a limit that is nearly 20 seconds faster. The article “Assessing Time Trends in Sex Differences in Swimming & Running" explains, “…women seem to be limited to achieving speeds about 8% slower than men’s and that women’s improvement curve lags men’s by about a decade” (Wainer 14). That indeed women seem to be swimming at a slower rate than men. This could be due to the variations between sexes. Each sex seems to…

During Junior year I began to play football but two weeks into practices, I had to quit due to fracturing my back the year before in football. In November, I began swim practices. I was greatly excited for swim since I wasn’t able to swim the year before. By the end of swim season, I swam a 24.45 personal best for my fifty free, my favorite event. I was super excited and began to realize I could possibly obtain some scholarships for swimming at possibly a D2 college. In the fall and spring I…

Imagine that you are at the Olympic Games, swimming the 100-metre freestyle. It is your first time there and you are surrounded by the most prestigious swimmers in the world. Do you quit right away? No, this is what you have grown up on, what you were trained to do. In Hero by Perry Moore, it explores Metro City and it’s residents. In particular, Thom Green. In Metro City, superheroes are the talk of the town and are no longer pieces of the imagination. Thom is a sixteen-year-old boy who is…