Swimming is one of the greatest fitness activities for you. It improves the fitness of almost your entire body, works both your upper and lower body muscle groups, improves your cardiovascular system, improves your endurance, reduces stress and calms your mind. One of the best aspects of swimming is that it is almost totally impact free, that means it does not put stress on your joint, and is a great fitness activity to use in recovering from injury. Swimming is also an easy fitness activity to start if you are overweight, as the water supports your weight, it lets you improve your fitness and loose weight to allow you to add more impact strenuous fitness activities to your fitness routine. Swimming is also a great activity for the elderly, as the risk of injury is very low.
Types of Swimmers[]
example of varsity swimmer
There are several different types of swimmers:
- Varsity swimmers
- Leisure swimmers
- Competitive swimmers
- Triathletes
- Lake swimmers
- Polar bear swimmers
- Melissa McHenry
Types of Strokes[]
There are several different ways to swim:
- Breast stroke / Breast stroke (Wikipedia)
- Butterfly stroke / Butterfly (Wikipedia)
- Freestyle
- Backstroke
- Front crawl / Front crawl (Wikipedia)
- Back crawl / Back crawl (Wikipedia)
- Doggy Paddle / Doggy Paddle (enjoy-swimming.com)
- Side Stroke Side Stroke (enjoy-swimming.com)
- Pulling
- Kicking
Workouts[]
- Easy swim (normally slow crawl or breast)
- Long swim (normally crawl)
- Intervals (25s, 50s, 100s, 200s, 400s) (choose your stroke, or alternate medley)
- Pyramids (25-50-100-200-400-200-100-50-25) (choose your stroke)
- Kicks (flutters, dolphin, whip)
- 1 arms (crawl, back, breast, fly)
- breathing (breath every 2,3,4,5 strokes)
- use pull bouy and flippers
Racing[]
Links[]
- Swimming on Wikipedia
- Swimming on About.com
- FINA - International swimming association
- Masters Swimming USA
- Masters Swimming Canada
- Swim Training for Triathlete
- Calories burned swimming
- https://impactflow.com/event/swim-team-hosted-by-lynbrook-moms-and-dads-club-7430
