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Swimming. By : Isabel Kuo Wu 9-2 2012. Swimg. S wimming. Swimming is a sport that is good for our health . Swimming is often described as one of the best sports for your health. Find out what those benefits are.
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Swimming By: Isabel KuoWu 9-2 2012
Swimming Swimming is a sport thatisgoodforourhealth.
Swimming is often described as one of the best sports for your health. Find out what those benefits are.
Swimming is an excellent aerobic exercise that works out the whole body and is easy on the joints. However, the effectiveness of using swimming to lose weight has been disputed for a long time.
The first benefit of swimming is that it is a whole body workout. Indeed, to swim for any sizable amount of time, you need to engage all the limbs or you risk to be quickly exhausted. As a consequence, all the muscles in your body are mobilized during a typical swim workout.
The swimming strokes used in this time period were the side stroke and the breast stroke. In 1873 John Trudgen introduced the front crawl to Britain used with a scissor or flutter kick
Competitive swimming has not seen the likes of Spitz until Michael Phelps. As of this date, Phelps has won 16 Olympic medals. Phelps won 6 gold and 2 bronze in 2004 in Athens. In 2008 at the Beijing Olympics he won 8 gold medals. With these accomplishments, Phelps has twice tied with a total record of eight gold medals at one Olympics.
Biography http://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-swimming.htm