Swimming pool

said you will do fine but I wasn’t positive about it. I mean this was only my first time swimming at champs. I looked over at the other kids they looked good but I have been practicing all summer. Then, I looked around the pool and see hundreds of people there watching me. I had butterflies in stomach when I stepped up on the block but I was feeling confident. I can smell the yucky chlorine from the cold pool. You can do this just don’t mess it up to myself. I can hear the muffled cheers…

Compassion, leadership, grit. But for the first few years, I was mostly in it for the rewards. I loved going to meets and winning ribbons; practice not so much. However, something changed, I eventually learned to appreciate the daily struggle of swimming and began to focus on the lessons beyond the returns. There’s one particularly brutal swim practice that I attribute my change in mindset to. I think I was about 9 or 10, and the practice started out fairly standard. A 600 warm-up, followed by…

on Central High’s swim team. Living in California, Susie was used to spending most of her time in the water. Both of her parents loved to be outdoors and enjoyed an active lifestyle that they passed that onto their daughter. Easily passing though swimming lessons, the lead lifeguard approached Susie’s parents about the possibility of Susie joining a swim team. She said, “Even though Susie is too young to compete, I think Susie could get a head start on learning the basics, that way when she…

felt as if were in slow-motion. Everything had gone fine until my body hit the water and my goggles rolled off my face and onto my forehead. I remembered what the coach told me two nights before, If your goggles ever fall off in a race, don’t stop swimming,That’ll end the momentum of your dive. The familiar salty flavor and rush of cold water arose as I kicked with all my might. Never had I raced…

Pilates is named after Joseph Pilates. Joseph Pilates was born on December 9, 1883 in Monchengladbach, Germany. He was a sickly child who got bullied and he became determined to make himself stronger and healthier. He invented Pilates as a new method to work out and in the early years of the last century. Pilates primarily focus is on improving litheness, strength, and body mindfulness, without necessarily having to work out at the gym and lift weights. Pilates is primary a resistance exercise,…

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 water…

Cove in order for me to get an experience with dolphins. They gave in to my persuasions, and we scheduled a day to experience this ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity. I had high expectations, and I would never have guessed that a kidney shaped, ice-cold pool where I would swim and interact with a dolphin would be the location where my hopes of becoming a dolphin trainer would be crushed. I woke up in a citrus smelling room, in between my two sisters in a semi uncomfortable bed and exhausted from…

lifeguards where they can eat, take their breaks, and also they have their first aid kits available and other medical supplies in case of emergencies. Social issues in the lives of the population: There are too many people that come in to this swimming park that we do not know how healthy and sanitize they are, but there is a wide spread of people from ages to as young as a 1 year old to 85 years of age that can and possibly get sick. Even if the water is filtered, there is still a mass of…

The Lesson in Quitting For the past 7 years of my life, swimming has played a huge role. Growing up, I had always enjoyed being in the water, and was one of the odd kids that genuinely enjoyed swimming lessons, no bribes required (thinking about it, I wish I had some of those kids in the lessons I teach now). Overtime, it began to feel less like a passion and more like an obligation; something I had committed to that was too late to stop. I was afraid to quit, afraid to disappoint, and trying to…

felt like I would be sick. Scuba diving taught me that I need to calm down and not worry so much. My parents had been planning a trip to Italy and asked me if I wanted to go scuba diving. I answered so fast as I thought about being under water and swimming with all the beautiful fish and aquatic life. My parents had researched for a guy for me and my brothers to take lessons with. A few days later my dad brought us a book and told…