Drink Green Tea To Help You Lose Weight

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The bottom line:Tea is a basic beverage in all civilized culture. It can be consume any time day or night, especially in the early mornings. But why drink green tea?  A cup or two of warm green tea can keep you more alert and in a better mood than most alcoholic beverages. It is also taken as a refreshing and a relaxing drink any time. One to five cups of green tea is usually recommended by health authorities a day. Drinking tea green regularly is sure to prevent some cancer risks, high blood pressure, headache, diabetes mellitus and sleeping disorders.

Green tea has flavonoid and catechin, that helps destroy diseases and germs in the body.

Any tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia Sinensis plant. Some tea grades or brands includes the flowers, roots and buds including 10-15% long leaf. This gives thea a special flavor and aroma.

Again, why drink green tea? There are other black or Oolong teas with some health benefits. But why the Japanese green tea?

 What is unique about this oriental beverage? The days that anything herbal should be exclude from westernized institutions has gone. 

Green tea benefits weight loss and reduction. Can this be true? I and you who drink the best green tea can put on a little weight here and there. 

But control study has shown that Yame tea can actual help you lose weight. How far the claim is has a “mixed” result. 

Scientists are still doing more research in this respect. The well known Mayo Clinic however, in its study of the issue has opined that this mixed result is “little to no benefit.” In other word, it can help reduce weight in certain persons, whereas it proves negative in other individuals. It is only in over weight persons that a more positive result is achieved.

However, the goal to lose weight in a moderate or average fat person can be achieved provide that:

·         Green tea is drink regularly especially in the morning before breakfast on an empty stomach.

·         A piece of fresh lime is added to the drink.

·         The last cup is taken in the evening before going to bed.

·         It is taken as a refreshing drink with a cup of cucumber when one is tasty instead of water as it has no energy value.

·         Real green tea extract is taken along with breakfast or lunch.

·         Three to five cups per day is drunk and no more.

·         It is taken for at least four weeks depending on your body mass index until a change is noticed.

If you plan to reduce your weight on the basis of these facts, please see your doctor because some drugs can interfere with green tea and cause serious side effects. 

The ginger root can be added to thea but if you experience unusually discomfort stop.

I had notice an extreme fat person lost weight by just drinking this beverage. I maintain my weigh by drinking same regularly.

There are many studies that agreed that taking tea regularly helps much in reducing weight. Much is still going on to find out more facts. The reason is that scientists at present do not know much as to how this comes about. 

However, it can be safely assumed that since green tea has no energy value, plus the fact that a low calorie meal or fruits like a cucumber or water melon goes with it for breakfast or lunch do no matter in weight gain.

The Many Benefits Green Tea Offers: Green tea is a pure natural beverage. It has many benefits to offer. This article is not the place to go into all these benefits. It will be good to pin-point the most important gains or long time wonders of this oriental herb.

1.      General bodily health: The existence of bioactive compounds in green tea tends to improved general bodily health. These bioactive elements contain excellent amount of vital nutrients for the proper functioning of the body. We have on the onset of this article mention the flavonoids and the catechins These are very powerful anti oxidants that destroy the free radicals in our body. At the same time, it protects body cells and molecules, kills disease and delays the onset of aging. This is all the more reason why you should drink a cup of this liquid daily either alone or with a balanced meal. Another very powerful compound Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate (EGCG) in the tea heals disease in the body. The antioxides has preventive effects on cancer cells. When the free radicals run loose, they cause the growth of cancer. Cancer is one of the major causes of death in the world. A cancer cell multiplies rapidly. It affects both men and women. Children are not excluded in certain cases. Drink it regularly and you reduce your risk of developing certain cancer.

2.      Improved brain functions: All teas have some caffeine. The more caffeine a tea has, the more it stimulates the brain for a response and this can jittery in extreme cases. The good news is that green tea has less of the caffeine in a tea! In a 1 g of tea the caffeine is half to that in a cup of black tea. This produces a mild stimulation of the brain to improve mood and vigilance. In addition, green tea has an amino acid called L-theanine, which works in synergy with dopamine, another powerful ingredient to improve the function of the brain. This action has a long time effect in that it is carried into old age. Thus, persons who continue to drink this elixir beverage maintain their brains bright into old age. Parkinson and Alzheimer’s diseases are unheard of in such drinkers.

3.      Reduction of cardiovascular disease: Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD )is one on the many illness green tea battled against. CVD includes stroke and heart disease; and is one of the biggest killer diseases in the whole world. Drinking green tea will lower the risks associated with CVD. The antioxidants in the green tea has a function of protecting the cholesterol and triglycerides from oxidation. This is another long time goodness that benefits elder persons into old age.

4.      Type 2 diabete mellitus: some years ago, a research was done with some Japanese adults. These adults drink at least six cups of the tea each day. It was observed that the risk to develop type 2 diabetes was 33% lower for these adults who drink the tea, especially women.

5.      Misceleaous health benefits:

·         Prevents genital warts.

·         Preventing dizzleness in older persons up standing for long time.

·         Prevents bladder, esophageal, ovarian and pancreatic cancer in women.

·         Low blood pressure in old age after eating.

·         Maintain low level of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood.

·         Retard the development of Human Papilome Virus (HPV) cells of the cervix in women.

With the exception of type 1 diabetes, I have not experienced any of any of the illness above. I was a grammar school boy when I first experienced what diabetes mellitus is and I use green mango as a therapy and healing antitode. I have a published hub on that story online with HubPages. I do not know they is ever such a product as green tea for I was brought up in a family that is addict to black and red tea and coffee. Nevertheless, my first experience till date with this oriental beverage is paying off in good health.

The first lady I introduced this herb to is very fat and hypertensive. Her continue use of this elixir has enable her overcome all excessive fat, lower her blood pressure and trim her figure.

Statistics: Water is not a beverage. But is a most drunk liquid in the world. Next is tea, a natural beverage.  The intrusion of tea from the orient into western civilization made tea famous all over the world. EGCG is now drunk in all culture. EGCG initially command a higher price than the average person can afford. The low priced grades made it now a nice, refreshing drink for all.

Although people still drink coffee, drinking of tea has superseded coffee. This is the good news. People drink tea all over the world primarily for its therapy value and health benefit, especially mental alertness. There is no person in my house hold that did not drink best green tea. Exception should be those who have not know the beverage. I was once in such a situation until some five years ago that I got my pack of this green elixir. Introduce it and you will wonder how crazy the people take a liking for the drink.

Taking the USA as an example, 160 Americans drink tea a day.  China is still home to the most consumer of tea than the rest of the world because these are traditional tea drinking society. But as per person, Turkey takes the lead followed by Ireland and the United Kingdom. That Turkey drinks the most tea in the world is still disputed by some authorities. Yet, Turkey is listed currently in numerous websites as a nation that drinks the most tea in the world.

 Flavonoid In Nature And Green Tea: Flavonoids are a complex chemical compounds or plant pigments that gives plants and fruits its many various orange, red, pinkish, yellow colors. Flavonoids are first called vitamin P but go out of use in the 1950’s. Flavonoids are found in many plants and fruits. It protects blood vessels from rapture and enhanced vitamin C intake in the body. Hence, it helps protect the body against injury and cold infections. Additionally, flavonoid, further protects cells from oxidation and inflation of the body cells. Practically, all plants and fruits has flavonoids. So they are found in berries, onions, tomatoes, oranges, tangerines, Flavonoids in green tea is higher in value than black , Oolong, red tea and all fruits and vegetables and beverages. This is what makes green tea unique and in a class of its own.

Chinese And Japanese Green Tea: Green tea originate in China. From there it was introduce into Japan. Chinese and Japanese green teas are both popular in all tea drinking cultures. Depending on characteristics, Chinese green tea seems to be more favored due to its high flavonoid content.

Caffeine green tea is used to treat illness or disease. Some have claim it reduce blood pressure and the blood sugar level in the blood stream. Some drink it to be mentally alert and improved the memory. Did you drink it for only its health benefit? Have you drink it to threat a headache? Why do you drink Yame green tea? Is it for cold or cough? What type of treatment do you prefer say, for fever? Is it medical or herbal using Yame? What is your experience like and what is your approach to it?

 I like to keep my blood pressure constant, so I drink it three times in the week early in the morning.  Again, my blood sugar needs to be under control. A cup is all that I need.

 Why Green Tea Is Important: Japanese green tea is getting more important nowadays. It was solely treated as an oriental drink; whereas, black tea is a westernized beverage like coffee.  One usually takes a cup of this bitter drink without sugar or milk. This released much of its medicinal and healing properties into the body. Green tea is now the subject of “raw material for extracts used in various beverages, health foods, dietary supplements, and cosmetic items” that is being subjected to numerous scientific and material studies in determining the extent of its long-purport-health benefits.  It is significant to note that the most essential factor in the green tea complex is its flavonoid content.

 How Green Tea With Fresh Fruits And Green Leafy Vegetables Helps You Reduce Weight 

Water is not a beverage, but is consider as food by some authority. A Cup of cold water has no energy. It can be employed in reducing weigh of a person. They are certain class of beverages that has no calories at all but are okay when used in conjunction with certain fruits and vegetables that have low calorie. Green tea is one of those. 

Drinking plenty water along with your meals ensured less of the food is consumed. And hence, the energy value of the food intake is low. This principle can be use in the case of green tea. The only utility that water has for the human body is the dissolution of waste matters and flushing out same from the body. This is its primary function. The other is solution and absorbing food nutrient into the blood stream. If plain pure water aid in weight loss, best green tea with all its nutritional value is much better. I can show how here.

Some fresh foods like carrots, cucumbers, fresh tomatoes, water melons and limes have very low calories. This also means they are low in Glycemic Index (GI) and Glycemic load (GL) respectively. The fruits mention above has a GI of between 1 and 50. Vegetables like onions and are also low in GI and GL.

All said, we have to take a meal that is well balanced. Otherwise serious health issues will result.

Fresh Fish Green Tea Fresh Fruits And Fresh Vegetables : A simple meal consisting of fresh fruits, fresh vegetable, fresh fish and nuts will make a balanced meal for the purpose. We had already made a cup of the tea. Let’s make our meal period. But note that any simple meal can be made to fulfill our aim, provide you choice your ingredient from the various food groups.

Ingredients

·         Fresh tomatoes ¼ cup.

·         Cucumber 1 cup.

·         Onion 1/2 cup.

·         Green chili 1 piece.

·         Red chili 1 piece.

·         Garlic 1 lobe.

·         Dry ginger ½ teaspoon.

·         Dry chili ¼ teaspoon.

·         Dry peanuts 8 g.

·         Fresh sardines and mullets 10g.

·         A pinch of salt.

·         Peanut oil 20 ml.

Instruction:

·         Make one cup of green tea as usual.

·         Prepared the fish or use can subt.

·         Chop onion, tomatoes, cucumber, chili, garlic and vegetable.

·         Put all this in a clean bowl.

·         Wash and clean frying pan.

·         Turn on cooker.

·         Put frying pan on heat.

·         Put oil in pan.

·         Put peanuts in frying pan and stir for two minutes.

·         Put the chopped onions, garlic and chilis, etc and stir for one minute.

·         Add salt, ginger and red chili powder and stir again for one minute.

·         Put in the fish and vegetable. Stir thoroughly again for one minute. It is done and removed from heat.

·         Serves one person.

Such a nice small diet taken with one or two cup of green tea can lower weight for a person.

Top Facts

·         Green tea is the best of all tea brands.

·         The main food and health ingredient in green tea is its abundant flavonoid content.

·         It is an excellent beverage for the treatment of illness and can be consume to prevent disease.

·         Tea originates during the Shang Dynasty in China.

·         Emperor Shennong 2737 BC is the founder and father of tea drinkers.

·         Green tea has a higher flavvonoid content than any other teas.

·         Flavonoids are abundant in nature, especially in green tea. It protects cells and body tissues.

·         Chinese green tea is most popular than Japanese green tea.

·         It is subject to debate for and against green tea to lower a person weigh.

·         Green tea is best taken without sugar and milk. But citrus fruits like lime and lemon, and certain green leafy vegetables such as mint can be add to the drink to enhance the flavor.

·         Its extracts are widely used in research and industries as raw materials in dietary supplements, beverages, health foods, cosmetic, etc that is still being subject to much scientific and material tests.

·         The high grade tea costs more than the low grade ones.

 Summary Of Key Facts:

·         Tea is the most drink liquid next to water.

·         Green tea has many therapy uses and healing benefits like treating high blood pressure, reducing sugars in the blood stream; it benefit mental alertness and mood, improved the memory and thinking; and prevent Parkinson and alzhemer disease, especially in old age.

·         Regular drinking of green tea will prevent and destroy certain cancer cells in the body.

·         Japanese green tea is not a sole remedy for good health. Other ways to keep the body in sharp including regular exercise three times in the week, a good balanced meal, sleep, relaxation and a check up with your doctor.

·         Other health benefits of thea include reduction of cardiovascular disease and good dental care.

·         Pregnant mothers should avoid the tea at all cost as it can lead to aborting the foetus. Nursing mothers too avoid drinking green tea during breast feeding period as it can have an undesirable effect of “jittery” on the growing baby via, the milk.

·         You can add lots of milk and sugar to loose green tea, but you may lost most of the natural goodness in the tea.

·         Green tea is always added to super foods and in the juice industry.

·         Adults should not take more than five cups of the beverage in a day because it can cause side effects of headache and sleeplessness.

·         Three small chops a day will do better for you to lose weight than three big ones with bodily exercise.

·         Combination of green tea with certain drugs is risky. Consult your doctor.

·         Green tea or EGCG now comes in differing packages of the same half or full of the same high grade. The higher the grade, the better the medicinal and nutrient content. A twenty-five percent and higher is good.

·         Some EGCG now comes with added flavor of lime, rose hip, pineapple, tangerine, etc. I only recommend pure green tea. You brew yours then cut and squeeze a lime or lemon into your tea. Any alkaline fruit will do. Those added flavors are nothing more than chemical additives. Adding real natural juice to the tea makes the combination work better in synergy.

Recommend reading:

·         Green Tea For Weight Loss: by Carth Wong.

 

Readers are all welcome to ask questions on any issue that is not clear in their comments and I will respond to all issues.

         

How Effective And Safe Is Green Tea: On all indications, tea drinking is safe. Yet certain persons cannot tolerate the flavor and caffeine content. The effectiveness of the tea has been grouped under the following heading below. I am incline to opine that if a person can stand the tannin in a black , red tea or coffee,  I cannot see any reason why green tea should be much of a problem. Green tea has tannin too which could be much safer than in black tea.

To your good health!

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Three Physical Activities That You Cannot Do Without Part 2

This is part two and final part of our story. Enjoy

Walking: Walk is very easy. Nearly every person can walk. Exception is the physical challenged ones in the leg or hip. Even a slight deformation like inequality in the length of the leg can enable a person to walk.

Many a person will not like to walk a short distance. Because transportation is cheap, you paid a small fare. 

You get to your address within 10 minutes so to speak.

 But do you know that you can walk ¼ of a mile within 20 minutes?

A brisk walk can cut down the time to 15 minutes.

I am not saying that you should not drive your car or take a taxi, a bus, to such a small distance if time is not on your side.

But make walking a part of your physical activity. 

Walking will benefit you more than cycling. 

Now, take a brief walk round a football field or a law tennis court if it is nearby.

Or else, take a brief brisk walk round the country side and enjoy the natural scenery.

I remember my second daughter getting up to walk. In fact she showcased it so well that it was a thrill to me and others.

A brisk walk includes taking a wide stride and swinging the hands that do some good to the shoulder as well as the chest.

Take a good look at competition walking or Olympic meet. See how the competitors move their body. Even the neck is brought into vital play. Your entire body will benefit from a brisk walk.

The immerse benefits you get from walking as an activity included:

Your legs become stronger. The muscles of the thigh and ankles become well develop and coordinate.

Your hip bone becomes strong. It is the hip bone that supports the upper part of the body.

Walking as an exercise increased the heart beat. The rate of breathing in and out increases and thus, the lung is supply with more oxygen and blood. This eliminated waste matters like carbon dioxide from the body.

More benefits that you derived from walking include increased energy output. 

Your digestive system will work well and digested your food well. After two hours or more of taking a meal, a short walk round the country side will impact more health and nutrient benefit to the body.

Start walking. Coordinate it into your exercise plan. Make a sound plan to walk round a school compound, a church yard or a short street to and from in the morning before taking your bath and going to work.

Or you do it in the evening before watching that streaming video on scream.

You can wear anything you like to go for a walk. But avoid bikinis. 

A pair of tennis shoes with a short and T-Shirt or a jogging jersey is idea.

In actual reality, you can wear any comfortable clothing that suits you for a walk.

Jogging: Jogging or slow running befits personal health. It is a world in itself. Welcome. Its many and varied benefits surpass other running activities. 

I jog regularly once in the week. I jog ¼ of a mile because I have other bodily activities like swimming 
incorporated into my weekly exercise routine or experience.

On the last Friday or Saturday of the month, I jog a mile.

It takes me at least 60 minutes because I go briskly and slowly.

You should learn to make jogging into your exercise plan.

As an example, I scheduled Mondays for jumping jack, press ups and downs and push and pull, etc. These are exercise that I and you can do in the living room.

Wednesdays are more of a body building. On Thursdays, I find time to relax my nerves and muscles on the river. In other words, I go swimming.

My friend, I do not know about you.

How you plan your physical activities is up to you. It is at your convenience.

Jogging will benefit you more if you go slowly and briskly, provide you jog more than half a mile in the week. But begin with ¼ of a mile or less. This loss the joints and muscles of the legs, tights, hips, and so on.

Otherwise, you may feel very uncomfortable with joint and muscle pains, including the chest and heart pains.

Remember a sound physical activity do not give pain to the body. It brings with it sound health benefits.

Here I recalled the first time I jog more than a mile in preparation for a local cross country marathon. 

Although I made it, I feel pain all over my body, especially the ankles, legs, muscles, joints and had a hard time finding my breath.

I went to see my doctor for medication. Prescription including pain killer were prescribed for me. I got some relief. I never has venture so again without some warming ups before any form of bodily exercise.

Do not jog if you cannot take a short walk.

The risks are heavy on the negative side.

It can result in heart failure in some cases.

It can end in fainting and or mental disturbances. In one cross country race, one runner fainted and kept shouting “Olotu, Oloto, take time.” Olotu was our History teacher. Whether the runner had a grudge against him, I do not know. He was taken to hospital and given a syringe prink, and became calm.

I have seen it happen more than once.

Try jogging for only ¼ of a mile or less to begin with. This will prepare you well for the next level.

I prefer to go jogging early in the morning. Some prefer the evening when the over head sun sink in the horizon.

Whatever your preferences, jog morning or evening, once or twice in the week.

A fat person can use jogging to reduce weight, while a thin person can use this tool to build strength and stamina.

Provide this is done twice a day morning and evening; and twice in the week. One should schedule certain day say Tuesdays and Thursdays on a regular basis for these actions or the plan to loss weigh will be a failure.

What gains do you get from jogging apart from losing weight as mention above?

Transportation of blood and food nutrients all over the body is assured. Digested food material including oxygen is distributed freely round the body. 

It reduced educed cholesterol in the blood. Unwanted cholesterol and fat in the body is breaks down or it is burnt and oxidized to release energy for other bodily activities.

Jogging builds stronger bones. Jogging is more powerful than walking. The more you jog regularly, the stronger and more powerful your bones become. Osteoporosis is thus eliminated.

Jogging brings with it the benefit of mental alertness. Jogging will enable you to be more mental alert. You think straight and positive.

It reduced heart disease. Heart related disease like diabetes, high blood pressure are done away with. Your heart beat will become regular, and hence, low blood pressure is eliminated.

Jogging induces relaxation. After a jogging session, you can rest well and relax.

Think of a good outfit to go for a jogging. A pair of tennis shoes with soaks is okay.

Wear a long sleeve jersey with matching trousers. Your jogging suit should be comfortable. This will keep your body warm and prevent a cold seizure if you are jogging early morning.

Shorts are idea for jogging in the evening if the weather is hot or rather warm. Otherwise, wear a long sleeve jersey with a trouser and matching pair of tennis shoe as said above.

The story so far can be useless if we do not think about food to eat.

Have a well balanced meal including fruits and vegetables two hours before attempting any of these activities.

Tip: do not do any of the exercise immediately after taking a meal. If you go swimming straightaway after a

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meal, you are likely to be drowned in the water, no matter how good you can swim. So take plenty of time at most two hours to rest before major exercise.

To your good health!

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Three Physical Activities That You Cannot Do Without part 1

Physical activities are for developing the body. They give sound healthy benefits that befit the organ, nerves and muscles of the body.

Without these, the body tends to degenerate. Muscles for example lose their tone. 

The three physical activities below will suit all round body development.

You cannot do without them. There seem to be natural as the fresh air you breathe daily. You can add your favorite, for example tai chin and or aerobic dancing as supplementary.

Welcome to the world of physical activities and enjoy.

Swimming: Swimming can be fun. But it can be intimidating if you do not know how to swim.

When you swim, every muscles of the body must be brought into action. 

 In reality, there is no exercise that benefits the body more than swimming.

You disagree? Okay. Take cycling. It is a sporting activity that is exhilarating and gives thrill. What part of the body that is very active in the event? It is the legs. 

The arms and hands stay stationary on the cycle handle. Pedal action from the legs benefits the trunk more. 

But it transported mostly blood flow to the rest and upper part of the body. It also has positive effect on the upper part of the body in an indirect manner, for example muscle toning. So much benefit from cycling.

In swimming, the legs, hands and arms are employed to move forward, backward or static. 

Compare these two activities in terms of dynamic action and your will and see that swimming is a plus.

Because the arm, shoulder and leg is brought into play.

Benefits Of Swimming

The best benefits that swimming released to the body include the following.

It increases the rate of heart beat.

Swimming relief mental tension and so induces relaxation.

It cools the body during a hot climate.

Swimming gives relief to arthritis and rheumatoid pains.

Post traumatic therapy.

Hydro therapy.

Welcome to the world of swimming.

Learning To Swim

Learning to swim is easy. It gives fun and leisure.

The challenge is that most people do not know how to breathe while under the water.

How do we breathe while under water?

This is even much easier than the swimming action itself! Learning to breathe under water is fun! It is easy as adding 1 and 1 to get 2.

A simple action of breathing technique will be demonstrated here. Take with you a big bowl ¾ full of water. 

Now take a deep breath (do not breathe out) and immersed your face in the bowl of water. Breathe out through your mouth if you cannot breathe out with your nose while your face is immersed in the water. Some find it hard to breathe out though the nose while immersing the face in water. Continue to breathe out via, the mouth and notice bubbles rising as you breathe out. While you breathe out, you also at the same time breathe in air indirectly in the water. This is one way swimmers breathe during a swimming meet.

Practice this exercise anytime you take a bath. Become use to it. By the time you find yourself at the swimming pool, all hassle about breathing under water during swimming is gone!

Floating

Okay, next learn to float. 

If you can breathe under water or above the water but you cannot float, you can’t swim period.

Learning to float is much easier than breathing under water.

Here we go. In a big bath, fill water to ¾ of level. Lie with your hands by your side with head raised but shoulder under water. Do not attempt to raise your legs. The body will float. We called this a back float.

You can even do this at the shallow side of the swimming pool or the river or beach.

Stand and check if water is at hip level. Now, place the palms of your two hands at the bottom of the swimming pool. Keep your shoulder under water. Your body including the legs will float. This is a front float.

How about moving forward with the palms like a wheel barrow? Move one hand forward palms down one after the other. Do this for some time and have fun. Then see if you can alternately kick the legs up and down in the water, but do not raise the legs out of the water. You will fall forward because the kicking propels your body forward. Just blow water out with your mouth and maintain your breathe.

If you can ride a bicycle, and who does not these days? You can do this pedal action in the river or the swimming pool.

Stand in water that is at chest level but below the shoulder. Lift one leg up and bring it down alternating one leg after the other like the pedal action on a bicycle. The palms of the hands likewise cupped to paddle the water up and down. As you paddle with one hand, bring the other up between the chest and the belly button level like the leg actions. This will keep you stationary on the water. With head above water, you can thus breathe in and out normally as on dry ground.

A simple action to begin swimming I like to introduce is the dog paddle. Every person can do the dog paddle. You breathe with your head above the water like the pedal action above.

Like as said earlier, the pedal action keeps you static in the water. You are at a vertical level. Now if you thrust the hands forward and continue the pedal action with the palms cupped, and at the same time kicking the legs into a push and pull action, you are likely to move forward. You are now lying horizontal in the water.

 This is the dog paddle. This is how a dog swam across a lake or small river or stream.


If you think you have learn to breathe, float and swim by reading this story, share it.

Other benefits you get from swimming is large muscle development.

Swimming Outfits

Many and varied outfits are available in most sports shops. But you can swim with whatever shut you like.

Women war variety of swimming trunks, but especially bikinis for this.

Men wear boxers or pants. Some men wear swimming jerseys.

Children can wear pants and swimming trunks in all cases. 

To your good health!


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Advantages And Benefits Of Swimming And How You Can Learn To Swim 2

Step One: Get A Good Coach.

A swim instructor or teacher will be able to give you a lesson on swimming. A friend who can swim can even teach you the ropes. How about taking your swimming lesson from your partner?

If you are an adult, you need at least an hour per session. Children from 6 to 12 years will need 15 to 45 minutes.

There is no standard instruction as to how to learn how to swim. Instructions may differ, but the arm strokes and leg kicks for competitive and all swimming are the same. 

Your first lesson should be how to breathe while you are immersed in the water. How do we breathe under water? 

We breathe with our mouth while under the water like a fish. This is called buccal breathing.

Begin in shallow water. That is, water in which is knee or waist deep, and you are able to stand.

Step Two: Get Comfortable In Water

Breathing Lesson. A breathing lesson I found useful is to fill a bucket or big bowl with water.

Now, take a deep breath. Immersed your face in the bucket or bowl of water and breathe out with your mouth. Note bubble forming out as you breathe out. Breathing out with the nose seems to be hard with most people, so breathe out with the mouth. Do not swallow any water. Continue to breathe out and in with your mouth two more time while your head still immersed in the water. Rise up your head and rest.

Do this two more time. Do it whenever you take a bath until you can breathe out and in comfortable with your mouth.

The next time you are in shallow water, or a swimming pool, immersed your head and practice breathing in and out with your mouth.

A fish has no nostril but breathe in and out with the mouth.

Toads use the same method.

Start with a moderate depth say waist or chest deep that you can stand. If there is a mistake or misshape, you can stand up to breathe normally in such a situation.

This is how you should breathe when you are completely immersed in the water, buccal breathing.

Later, we will see how breathing can be integrated with arm strokes and kicking movements.

Step Three: Banish Your Fears Of Water.

Why people are afraid to swim is because of drowning. They cannot breathe under water. They do not know how to breathe under water. This is the all basic fear. Now you do know how to do it prettily good.

Next, never go for swimming alone while you are in the learning stage. But you go with your teacher or with a good and strong swimmer. It is much better to go with group of swimmers who knows what there are up to.

While getting used to the water, do not swim in running water. You will not know what to do in a critical condition like an undercurrent drift.

Do not swim during a bad weather; and in water that is extremely too cold because your leg and arm muscles can fail you when they get rigid.  Even your breathing under water will be short due to the cold. You will have a hard time to paddle yourself out of the water.

Step Four: Learn Floating Techniques.

In water that is at waist level, place your two hands palms down a foot away and your legs will float.

You can use your hands to move like a wheel barrow, while your legs still float. Enjoy the fun for awhile!

If you like, you can alternately kick the legs up and down in the water. This is the scissor kick.

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This will propel you forward and your hands get off the bottom of the pool!

The fall only tells you that your hands need to be employed to continue to move forward.

Alternately, hold the side of the swimming pool arms apart, and allow your legs to float. In this posture, you make a T shape with your body by straight out your legs. 

It is optional to wear a goggle during a swimming session. It let you see clearly. But you can open your eyes under water and swim.

More Floating Confidence: 

The Mushroom float: Easy come and easy go with beginners. Water should be at chest level. Shoulder should be under water while the face is submerged. Clasp your knees with both hands. Your body will swirl forward and float. Your back appears to break the surface of the water.

The Front Float: You stand in water chest level, facing the side of the swimming pool or bath with both hands holding the rail. Breathe in and lower your face in the water for 2 to 3 seconds. Your legs will float effortlessly.

If you tuck the legs under the body and try to sit down, you will get to the standing position.

Always keep your shoulders under water which is shallow or chest level. This will make your body easy to float.

There is nothing for you to do and make your body float in water. The trick is that your body submerged completely in water and it will float effortlessly. That is why water should be at waist or chest level (and above as we advanced). As we duck under, the body effortlessly floated on its own!

The Back Float: 

Water is at waist level.

Take a deep breath and hold.

Keep the shoulder under water as in the front float.

Keep the back of the head under water.

Always look toward your toes.

Avoid sitting at the bottom of the pool or shallow water and you should not try to lift the body and legs. Let the water support or do this.

Breathe out and breathe in again and hold.

If you breathe out and do not breathe in again your body will go under water.

The breathing in seems to inflate the body like a rubber balloon or tube.

This technique will help you relax or sleep on the water like the dead man posture! Breathe in and hold your breath. Straight your legs and keep your arm parallel to the body. Stay floated.

Threading Water: 

Water should be slightly above chest level but below the shoulder.

Stand strait or vertical.

Raise one leg up and try to lower it while you raise the other like you are trying to ride a bicycle.

Your hands likewise should be cupped and paddle the water up and down.

The arm motion balanced the leg peddle and you stay floated upward without any forward, backward or side movement.

Notice that I had not introduced any floating gear so far. My conviction is that one should learn to swim without the gears. It can be introduce if the learner had a hard time understanding instructions.

How You Can Learn To Swim The Breast Stroke

The breast stroke is one of the first strokes good for beginners in competition swimming. But competition swimming is hardly our concern here.

What matters is its importance in swimming like observing a sinking swimmer; and swimming on to save that life.

Again, the breast stroke is slowest of all the swimming strokes and can be use in a leisurely and relax manner in water.

It is the most popular of all swim strokes.

Three movements are all that it takes to make the breast stroke to success.

It is a hard stroke. All movement is done on the belly or breast with a fish-like stream line body.

In competition, if you miss one arm or leg stroke you stand disqualify, even if you come up tops! 

First, is you press down and out. The body must be in a glide position in the water. You dive in straight out your hands and legs.

With your arms press down and out, take a dive and your head should be slightly above the water but face submerged. Keep both legs and arms straight together. Let the body glide awhile. In this way, the body is in a straight line or stream line posture. Keep the head always above water or submerged it slightly above water and look straight along the surface of the water.

Next, with the cupped hands, pull the hands, pull the arms downwards and outwards, and breathe in through the mouth.

Two, arms and legs bend. Bring or press your hands towards the body; and at the same time, draw up the knee toward the body and spread or open it outward apart so that a drag or slow down motion is avoid.

Third, is the glide. Arms and leg motion completed action and the body results in a glide position again as the beginning above.

Here you breathe out via, the mouth and nose.

After allowing the body to glide awhile, continue with step two above, for another glide and so on.

Then take your rest if need be.

This is the breast stroke technique of swimming.

To your good health and swimming fun!

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