Swimming

Swimming

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= = = = = = = = = = = = = = =**Introduction ** = Swimming is a sport that requires strength, stamina and endurance to have its full benefits. One of the things that really cool about swimming is if you swim in the morning it will help your blood circulation and help you concentrate at school. For this reason most swimmers get better grades then students with other sports.

=**Benefits of swimming ** = Swimming has many other benefits. It is a very good sport and you could do it your whole life. Swimming is considered to be the best exercise a man can do. For example Swimming is one of the few sports that use all your muscles. Three good reasons why you should swim are; first, it will increase your acrobatic capacity because you use your arms legs and lungs at the same time. The second reason is it will strengthen your heart since swimming allows you to build up your heart **muscles** which will increase your blood circulation. Another reason is that swimming is the safest exercise. If a person suffers from joint pains, swimming will be a good **exercise** for them. It will cause them less pain then exercising in land.

= = = = =**How to be a good swimmer **  =  Number 1 you have to swim at least 3 times a week if you don’t do an average of swimming 3 times a week you will lose your feel for the water and Your technique will also start to deteriorate swimmers seem to do better if they swim frequently. Number 2 do wear a swimsuit made for competitive swimming that doesn’t mean that you should buy the latest high-tech swimwear but it means that you should not wear baggy shorts if you’re trying to improve your technique or speed. Also wear fins/**__[|flippers]__** can help you achieve (artificially) a better body position so you will learn what the position feels like while moving

= **The best Swimmers ** = = = One of the best swimmers in the world is **__[|Michael Phelps]__**. He won eight gold medals at the **__[|Beijing]__**__**[|Olympics]**__in August 8, 2008, breaking the world record for getting the most gold medals in the Olympics. Every run he had at the Olympics, he broke a world record, and <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: yellow;">for example he broke the world record for 100 meter **butterfly** at a time of 49.82. Another great swimmer is **__ [|Frederick Bousquet] __** who broke the world record for 50 meter **freestyle** with a time of 20.94. Another record was shattered by **__[|Liam Tancock]__**, for 50 meter **backstroke** with a time of 24.04.

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=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Commitment needed for competitive level swimming ** = You really need a lot of commitment to swim competitively. You need to train at least 4 times a week. If you do not practice regularly you will feel that you have gotten slower and then you need to start over. <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: yellow;">For example Michael Phelps, a very competitive swimmer, trains six hours six days a week. He swims approximately 50 km a week. You can only imagine how much commitment international competitive swimmers need.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What competitive swimmers eat ** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> = You might think that competitive swimmers eat stuff like fruits an d vegetables to be very healthy. But the truth is they eat burgers and a lot of food that have a lot of calories. <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: yellow;">For example According to BBC news this is Michael Phelps diet: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> For breakfast: three fried egg sandwiches, Cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, fried onions, mayonnaise, three chocolate chip pancakes, five egg omelets, sugar coated slices of French bread, two cups of coffee Lunch: one pound of enriched pasta two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayonnaise on white bread and energy drinks Dinner: half kilogram of pasta with carbonara sauce large pizza and energy drinks. Competitive swimmers need a lot of calories to survive the training they do that is why swimmers eat these kinds of food.

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=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Diving ** = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> If you are not interested on competitive swimming, **diving** is probably your option. Diving is another type of swimming and it does not rely on speed it mostly relies on your endurance to survive with very heavy diving equipment. <span style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: yellow;">Also you see a whole different view unlike competitive swimming. To be able to dive you do not need to be very fast at swimming but you must learn the basics before you can dive like how to float in the water or doing kicks under water.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Conclusion** = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Overall swimming has many benefits. Like strengthening your heart, increasing your acrobatic capacity and you use all your muscles. Anyone can be good at it by training. And you need a lot of commitment to be a competitive level swimmer.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">References = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.vilacom.net/swimming/men.php // http: // news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7562840.stm [] [] [] []