“You want to have purpose in every stroke you take during a swim, if you do this you will succeed.” Candace Pearson. This is what my coach said to me before my very last breaststroke race of the season last summer. What does this mean? you might ask. That’s exactly what I asked myself before I got into the water. There are many ways to have a perfect breaststroke. Head position is one of the first things you need to know when talking about breaststroke. To resist the most water around the head area, you should keep your head at an approximate forty-five degree angle. You should also try to keep your chin down. We don’t want the chin up because that would make more skinned area for water to resist against, but we also don’t want your …show more content…
Your body can resist the pull of the water. When your arms and hands are in streamline, the placement of your arms in which you are squeezing your arms and have one hand over the other, you want to put your streamline behind your ears. To keep your arms tighter so you can shoot out into the water farther. You’re going to want to keep your body in a neutral position when swimming breaststroke. This means that you want to be in a relaxed, but aggressive, position. The pull of any stroke is the motion of the arms. You want to have a good pull in breaststroke because, if you have a good pull then you should be able to shoot out farther and cover more area per stroke. In your pull you want to push your arms outward, come back around, then shoot out, and repeat. You’ll want to keep your hands cupped to catch the water. When you catch more water, you’ll get farther and can shoot …show more content…
To do an open turn there is a giddy saying that is used by most people to remember easily, how to execute a breaststroke turn, “Elbow your brother, call your mother.” This is because you push your left elbow back and move your right arm just over your ear, your head bent sideways, meeting your other arm and going into the streamline position. In an open turn the steps are: touch the wall with both of your hands, turn body sideways putting both feet onto the wall, pushing your left elbow back, right arm going over your ear, and then streamlining into your underwater
Cheever, John. “The Swimmer”. Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary. 6th ed. Ed. Charles Bohner and Lyman Grant. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Some goodness comes out of taking the risk of swimming alone. Ones“prohibition and expectations are ignored.'; The challenger of this feat has let go of all egoism as a result of the vulnerability faced.
Skin resistance, wave resistance and turbulence resistance are three main types of resistance relating to humans and water. A layer of fluid is formed (boundary layer) on the skin which is in direct contact to the water, when the swimmer moves in one direction the Boundary layer interacts with the preceding layer of water gripping tightly. This creates a frictional force preventing forward movement without further propulsion, consequently called ‘Skin Resistance’. Wave resistance is a build up of fluid in front of the swimmer creating a high pressure zone, the faster the swimmer can travel the higher the pressure is in front of them. This pressure can be reduced by using appropriate streamline techniques causing less displacement of laminar flow. Turbulence resistance is the displacement of laminar flow, when swimming you create a high and low pressure zone causing a suction effect. Using efficient streamline techniques the water displacement is minimized and less eddie...
Muscles involved in freestyle and backstroke are the arm’s muscles which is the brachioradialis (forearm flex muscle), thenars (hand muscle), biceps, flexor digitorum profundus (forearm extend muscle), triceps and deltoids (shoulder muscle). In addition, the neck muscles (sternocleidomastoid) do involved too. As for the leg muscles the harmstrings, digitourm brevis (foot muscle) and tibialis anterior (shin muscle) are involved in swimming activity. Finally, the abductor magnus(groin), rhomboid major and minor, latissimus dorsi (back muscle) and external oblique.
While swimming, it is important to realize what each body part is doing and where it is moving.
Cheever, John. "The Swimmer." The Northon Anthology American Literature. 8th ed. Vol. E. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. Print.
The reflex is triggered by a physiological reaction to wet apnea, so submersion is necessary for this reaction to occur and cannot merely happen while holding you're breath. When a mammal is submerged, 2 things happen: vasoconstriction and heart rate
Cheever, John. “The Swimmer.” Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary. 6th ed. Ed. Charles Bohner and Lyman Grant. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Buoyancy, how easily a person sinks or floats, is definitely a huge part of scuba diving. It determines how deep a person stays underwater. To control this, divers wear weights and inflatable neckwear called buoyancy compensators. Depending on how many weights a person is wearing; they sink to a certain depth and stay there. The more weights, the farther down they go. The buoyancy compensator, once inflated, rises the person back up to the surface. The more accessories, such as weights, a person wears, the lighter they feel in water and the easier they sink.
Finish, Finish, Go, and Go you just set the new world record. Every four years lots of people gather around a pool cheering for Olympians. It is a very noisy place. A lot of Olympians that are part of the summer Olympics are very athletic, they swim all year around. The swimming Olympic history and background is very interesting. They have done so many new things over that past couple of years. They come out with new rules every year to make things more fair and challenging. There are a lot of events and tons of records that have been broke. A lot of Olympians have set future goals to stride for. I was swimming the 200 meter fly I was at a really good time when I had 50 meter sprint left at the end all I could think about was I’m going to set the new world record. Olympic swimming is a very fun sport it is very athletic. Every year in the summer time every one always sits around a TV watching this it is very famous in America. Swimmers from all around the world come and here and compete. There is a lot of competition there I have found out a lot about the history of swimming. There are a lot of events and tons of records that have been broke. A lot of Olympians have set future goals to stride for.
Swimmers tend to be tall and have a noticeable upper body muscle development. Having low body
Cheever, John. "The Swimmer." The Northon Anthology American Literature. 8th ed. Vol. E. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. Print.
Swimmers use four different strokes to swim an Individual Medley swimming event. Swimmers propel themselves through the water using four different arm strokes and four different kicks. Each arm stroke has a kick designed to meet the tempo of the swim. We refer to the strokes in the order in which they are performed, the butterfly stroke, the backstroke, the breaststroke, and the freestyle stroke. The four strokes are consistently swum in this order based on the rules that govern competitive swimming.
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Any form of competitive swimming did not appear until the 1800s in Europe when schools accepted swimming as a natural part of life education. In the 18th and 19th century it became a competitive sport than being just a life saving skill. Swimming teams and clubs started to evolve all over the world. Although England was the first country to have an inside pool they aren’t one of the first countries of all times , China, Germany and Sweden were the first countries in swimming history. England and also invented the side stroke and after this one the freestyle evolved. Although there aren’t swimming competitions of side stroke it’s also known as a global stroke. In this essay I’m going to explain the changes of swimming for example the technology in swimming pools, the changes in bodies of the people that swam and more.