The Swimmer

goals set for myself and the team. My swimming career has been primarily known for the leadership I have brought as a captain, the sportsmanship I displayed during meets, and the dedication I have put forth every practice enabling me be the best swimmer I could possibly be. Being captain of a varsity sport was a major responsibility I did not take lightly. Knowing that my teammates were dependent on me, I became more open minded…

Top Three Secrets of the Triathlon Swim Swimming is good for the health and equally daunting for the various triathletes worldwide. They need to maintain their swim techniques in order to do well every time they plunge into the pool. In case you are a beginner in triathlete, you need to keep in mind a lot of things in order to achieve success. Becoming a triathlete isn’t an easy task, though. It takes a lot of practice, a good amount of determination and loads of hard work. But did you know…

Michael Phelps, an American former competitive swimmer, has won a total of twenty-eight metals, twenty-three of them golds. Provided that, what gives Phelps the ability to be such a fast swimmer and why can’t we be like him as well? The answer is our DNA and protein within our bodies, which makes everyone different and individually built, causing Phelps to have long arms and a strong torso. The structure of DNA and forming proteins are two extremely complex aspects. Though, throughout the unit…

A swimmer can feel drag by Friction, pressure and wave dog. Frictional is caused because of the rubbing of the swimmer’s body against the water molecules. (Newtons Laws of Motion) Even if the swimmer is going at a low pace the swimmer will still be able to feel this going on by slowing the swimmer down. The swimmer pushes against the water, the water pushes against the swimmer in return. Wave dog can be challenging for swimmers, as the speed increases it can lead…

I am very nervous writing this because I am a perfectionist, everything has to be the done the absolute right way. So thinking about posting this and people reading it is frightening to me because I know my tendency to focus on the few negative comments over the multiple positive ones. It is so easy to focus on what you could have done better over simply enjoying what you did well. So here it goes. Being a natural perfectionist, I thought my intentions were to do everything the right way.…

idea that he was going to travel home by swimming through all the swimming pools in the county. Ned seemed to see, “with a cartographer’s eye, that string of swimming pools, that quasi-subterranean stream that curved across the county” (Cheever, “Swimmer” 1316). He wanted to name that stream of swimming pools after his wife, Lucinda. At first, Ned felt that he was an explorer when he planned to swim through all of these swimming pools in the county. Many of the swimming pools Ned visited were…

Razorbacks, would be the tiebreaker to win champions. Boys’ fifteen-and-over one-hundred yard butterfly was the last race. Swimmers were Matt Gratton from the Razorbacks, Tony Grillo from the Dolphins, and Ernie Plingus from the Barracudas. Before his race, swimmer Grillo said, “After I swim the fly, the Dolphins will be taking home gold again like every year.” The butterfly swimmers walked through the pool gate and stood behind their starting blocks. The starter…

My Swimming Story Swimming never fails to appeal to me. I grew up swimming and had continuous year-round swim workouts and competitions. Being born and raised in China, I started my swim career in an elementary school. Since then, I swam through elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. It could not be denied that my hard work paid off since I managed to obtain lots of medals and broke multiple local records. What’s more valuable was that I became the team captain in my…

90% is dealt by the pool”(17 Major Health and Mental Benefits of Swimming Daily). When you’re in the water oxygen flows to the muscles, and it forces you to regulate your breathing. In the article Stay Happy, from the magazine, Swimmer, Jim Thornton says, “It can even promote so-called “hippocampal neurogenesis” - the growth of new brain cells in a part of the brain that atrophies under chronic stress” (Thornton). Atrophy means to progressively decline, so basically under chronic…

If you’re a swimmer or other recreational user of Lake Ontario, you might want to hang up your jet ski, put away your flippers, or find another beach for your summertime activities. Local marine biologists who specialize in the Great Lakes and surrounding waterways recently released a startling statement regarding Lake Ontario, saying there may be a bull shark population on the rise. In late summer of 2015, scientists released roughly a dozen bull sharks into Lake Ontario in order to curb the…