The Swimmer

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 Olympic Games. When he was 9, he started to perform swimming at Arden Hills Swim Club, located in California. Then, he is…

gain more knowledge on the nutrition and diet that suitable and best for athlete especially for swimmers. First of all, carbohydrate is the main fuel for all athletes. There are no other nutrients burn as efficiently as the carbohydrate does. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics,…

swimming. Swimming is an extremely demanding sport both physically and mentally. Swimmers train year round for just a few hundred yards of racing. The one who is always there making up the sets, workouts, and motivational speeches is the coach. Coaching has come a long way from where it was, for example, in the 1930's when only rich, white men could swim or even have access to a pool, let alone have a coach. Swimmers had to find their own way to train, in lakes, ditches filled with water, the…

Why should swimmers wear swimming caps and goggles in a pool? Swim caps are used mainly to keep the swimmers hair dry and protected; it also helps protect the hair from the chlorine in the water. Wearing a swim cap can reduce long strands of hair floating in the pool resulting in the hair getting stuck in swimming…

Amazingly others pursue this sport because it’s the sport they dream about and want to do it competitively. Swimming’s difficult, fortunately and unfortunately. In swimming oddly we practice daily, compete fiercely, and have the most decorated Olympian. Swimmers attend swim team and practice daily so we can keep our speed…

Growing up, I was a swimmer. I started swimming competitively when I was nine years old and continued throughout high school. Since high school, I have kept swimming a part of my life by using it for exercise and coaching swimmers from age five to eighteen. Swimming has provided many benefits to me. As the American Academy of Pediatrics suggested, swimming has become my "life sport" (AAP, 2006). For me it's like riding a bicycle, I never forget how to do any of the strokes. It is a…

barrier breaking swim. Simone Manuel’s 100-meter freestyle victory made her the first female African American gold medalist swimmer. Coming into the race Manuel was going to face a tough challenge going up against the Australian sisters Cate Campbell and Bronte…

quantity of water being pushed around against the flow. As a swimmer myself, I was greatly interested in determining the optimal angle to kick in order to enhance my swimming. In swimming, kicking can be defined as the continuous up and down movement of the legs; also a way to help stabilize and mobilize your body in the water. With this knowledge, I am interested in ascertaining the relation…

Mullen! Sorry to bother you, as I'm sure you're busy, but we’ve had a few of our top swimmers sidelined with shoulder injuries this past year. I want to start a team prevention program, but don’t know where to begin! How old should the swimmers be? How much time should we spend? I want to do this right, but can’t afford a physical therapist to come work with the team. Right now we’re just doing band external rotations…

If a pool made you sick, would you go back in and swim in it over and over? Probably not. However, swimmers who swim for a club or swim for the high school swim team have no other option than to practice in the same pool. This is a problem that is occurring in the Ames Municipal Pool, where I swim for practice each night and on Saturday mornings. Kids are getting bumps from the Ames Municipal pool water all over their arms and legs and bloody noses from the air in the pool area. Coughing and red…