All About Swimming

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Swimming is a recreational activity and sport involving with motion in a body of water. It's been around ever since humans learned how to swim of course. Swimming is a great way to excerice without the fear of getting injured or spraining yourself like in regular sports such as football or basketball.

Here is a list of the benefits of swimming:

• Builds endurance in stamina, espically in the heart and lungs.
• It tones muscles and builds strength without impact stress on body.
• Provides an all-body workout, nearly all your muscles are used in during swimming

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Common strokes in swimming:

• Freestyle: My favorite stroke, also known as the Australian Crawl. Most common technique in competive swimming, you lay on your stomach while kicking flutter kick and using your hands in a upwards '11' postion and to scoop water under you.
• Backstroke: Basically Freestyle but on your back. Kicking flutter kick while moving your hands through and out of the water in a circular motion.
• Breaststroke: This is a tricky one. You kick like a frog, bending your knees and pushing them outward and closing them fast to gain propolsion. While you put your hands together and do a 'scooping' motion under your chest in the water and into a streamline postion as you kick.
• Butterfly: The most tiring one. For kicking, your two legs are kicking together like a dolphin. While you drag your hands outwards and out of the water, and push yourself under the water.