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Looking for a new alternative to your daily walk, or trip to the gym? Why not try water aerobics! Water aerobics is a low impact exercise that will still make you sweat! You may think that swimming in a pool is all it takes for water aerobics. But this is not true! Water aerobics is a full body workout, using every muscle from your legs to your shoulders. After an hour doing water aerobics you are sure to feel the burn! So how can one get started? Surprisingly, many local pools offer a…

I was watching the Santa Clara Arena Swim Series over the past weekend and I was reflecting on elite swimming careers. I watched the ageless Anthony Ervin and Natalie Coughlin race and compete at a high-level into their mid-thirties. Twenty years ago, no one was competing at this age! I kept asking myself, how are these older athletes having this historic swimming career? After much thought I realized, health is the answer! Health is a broad term, but holistically all the elements of health…

The modern ballet performance The Deep End exert 'swimming' is about Australians love for water. The piece is made of both modern ballet and contemporary. The dance could be interpreted in a couple of ways, either swimming in the beach or in a pool. The deep end was performed in 1996 by the Australian ballet and choreographed by Meryl Tankard. Meryl Tankard is one of Australia's greatest and most controversial choreographers. One particular move in section A of The Deep End was the circular…

Kids Swim Lessons: What are the Steps Toward Water Mastery? Summary: Kids swim lessons teach life-saving skills that strengthen muscles and improve coordination. This article provides information about Aqua-Tots swim school and how their instructors organize swim classes. Included are the age groups that each level serves and which skills students can expect to learn. Kids once learned to swim at the local stream or pond. Children spent warm summer days teaching themselves and each other to…

The crowd before me, my stage in sight, and the all too familiar scent of chlorine in the air; I live for these moments. All of the swim practices before now have been in preparation for my success in today’s meet. My vision is blue from my old plastic goggles that are now scratched from past meets and reminiscent practices. They are my good luck charm. I fidget with them, assuring for the fifth time that, yes, they are still exactly where I left them ten seconds ago. I take deep breaths, each…

Hi Journal, Since it is the summer time I am having a blast swimming in my pool, but with one exception I am swimming in my new mermaid tale. Today was my first day swimming in it because it took the past couple months to perfect. While I am swimming in it I hear this simple melody which is at odds with the strength I feel in my lower body. Whenever I swim I feel so powerful as if there are no limits to what I can do. When I was still recovering from my depression, art became a visual way for…

Since my High school years, the years where everyone and everything was vulnerable and susceptible to failure, judgment, pain, and rejection it has always been a dream and interest of mine to learn how to swim. The relaxing feeling and confidence of submerging in a large array of water without fear or hesitation of drowning by such a necessity, I couldn’t imagine living without. Little did I know that my childish desire would haunt me till the days of my adulthood. Foolish and naïve thinking…

Since swimming uses all five senses, it leads to activity in the brain which then creates growth. Cross-patterning movements such as swimming activate both cerebral hemispheres and all four lobes of the brain simultaneously, which can result in heightened cognition and increased ease of learning (“Swim Kids”). Immersing the body in water to the level of the heart increases blood flow through the brain's cerebral arteries, thus improving vascular health, blood circulation, and cognitive function.…

Since the age of five, I have always been on the swim team. During the younger years of my swimming career, I did not attend practice very often. I would take weeks off and the only reason I gave for missing was simply "I did not want to go." My parents never wanted to push the issue because they felt as if it would make me hate the sport and they wanted me to like swimming for me. The thing about swimming is practice does not only make a swimmer faster but it also makes them swim legally.…

How I learned to swim I was sputtering in the water, and I felt as if I were to drown. Some water got into my snorkel, and as I was coughing the water out, I forgot to hold on to the edge of the pool. I started to sink. With nothing to grab on to, I started sloshing with my arms as much as I could. The pool was not that deep, only five feet deep, but it was more than enough to be deep for me, since I was only seven years old, and I was less than four feet tall. I was trying to hop out of the…