I like to
say that I love swimming. Do you love this activity?
Swimming is
one form of a physical activity that builds a strong body.
It is an all
round body workout. It builds and keeps all major muscles of the body arm,
shoulder, neck, chest and heart, lung, waist, hip and leg strong.
When you
swim, your arms, legs, shoulder and head do all the movement and propel you
either forward or backwards in the water.
When you
thread water with your hands and legs, you stay stationary or vertically on
water.
I love
swimming. I like to swim regularly.
I would
rather love to learn to swim competition than to learn to run a sprint because
of the injury that would involved on an unlucky situation. Since, a sprinter
can fall and be injured.
I have seen
a law tennis player fell and break an arm or a knell.
I have seen
a runner or jogger fell and hit his/her face on the hard ground and sustain
some wounds or few bruises here and there on the body.
I have seen
footballers, professional or amateurs, break they legs during a game of soccer
and doctors put them into the wheel chair or on crunches.
Where does
swimming come in here in the picture?
A good
swimmer on a playful situation with a swimming partner and is push into the
water. During the fall, the water cushioned his/her body against any injurious
impact.
It is very
hard and rare to get any harm during a swimming session. Even if you had not
done some warm ups before the swim, injuries like a sprained back, arm or leg
is rare.
But all
said, it is better if you do some warming ups as in all bodily activities.
I had not
seen any good swimmer get hurt during a swimming competition or water
activities.
Drowning in
the water is not an injury. It is an accident.
Accidents
are caused by many factors, primary negligent. Recently, four year old toddler
get drown in his parents swimming pool few minutes after his dad take a leave
from him!
It is
natural for the boy to move toward the pool or water! Learn more below.
His dad
should not have left him alone without a caretaker or protective swimming float
on the kid.
More so, it
seems the boy had no swimming lessons.
From a year,
children including toddlers can be taught how to swim in shallow water. This is
best news indeed.
A good swimmer
will take all the necessary precaution as not to be drowned whether in the
swimming pool or the drifting river.
Drowning in
the river is always associated with persons who do not know how to swim. A
person learning how to swim but goes alone without his/her teacher can be drown
either in the river or swimming pool.
A traveler crossing a river can be submerged
if cannot swim when boat capsized.
This is all
the more reason why swimming floats should be at hand for travelers crossing a
river who do not know how to swim.
The
advantage of swimming over all other physical activities is that it is not
connected with any bodily damage.
7 Benefits Of Swimming: Swimming has many benefits. These
are state below.
·
Post
injury therapy. Are you a jogger or footballer? Do you play tennis or you are a
cyclist? Did you sustain any pain after the playing session? Did your coach or
teacher advice you to go for a swim for a post injury therapy? Swimming will
impact healing therapy on that sprain and speed up the healing process! Most
good coach usually told their students to go for a swim in case of a wound.
·
Swimming
benefits the heart. During a swim, the heart rate speeds up. There is an
increase rate of heart beat that takes some stress off the mind and body.
·
Consequently,
swimming relaxed the mind and body. When you swim regularly, all stress and
tensions in the mind and body finds an outlet and go away! You can relax well
and even sleeps better.
·
Low
impact therapy. I mentioned earlier you are playfully pushed into the swimming
pool or a river and you fall on the water. Or you dive into a river. But the
water cushioned your body on the impact generated. The trauma you would
otherwise sustain on landing on a hard surface or ground, while landing on the
water is zero!
·
Strong
muscle development. Swimming builds all your body muscles. When you swim on a
regular basis, your arms, neck, shoulder, hip, waist and legs do all the bodily
movements in the water. This guarantee all round body muscle build up.
·
Swimming
relief arthritis issues. The Arthritis Foundation recommends swimming as the
best type of therapy for stretching muscles, strengthening muscles and an
aerobic exercise. Swimming in the open water or the swimming pool will give all
the three benefits mention here.
·
According
to the Center of Disease Control (CDC), if a pool is heated to warm the water,
the warm water will help loosen the stiff joints. Persons with rheumatoid
arthritis also benefits from this; and water based aerobic exercises improves
stiffen joints and relief one from osteoarthritis pains.
Why Physical Activity Or Exercise Of
Any Form Is Important To Your Health And Well Being
An active
physical life is a sigh of good health.
A person in
pain or who is not feeling well cannot be active. Life may slow down on such
limitations.
So physical
activity or exercise in any form is important for:
·
It
can improve the quality of life.
·
It
reduced the risk or tendency to develop certain diseases like type 2 diabetes. Certain
cancers in men and women, and cardiovascular disease or heart disease.
·
Your
blood pressure if high is reduced and becomes normal.
·
Your
blood cholesterol is reduced.
·
Your
bones, muscles and joints become strong, and the risk of osteoporosis is
reduced.
·
In
old age, you become better coordinate and balance, lowering your risk of a
fall.
·
You
will recover easily from periodic hospitalization.
·
You
will feel better and in a better mood; and much more relax and sleep better.
·
You
will maintain a healthier state of mind. Physical activity of any form helps
dispel depression of any kind by blocking negative thinking and distract people
from unnecessarily worries.
How You Can Learn To Swim
To begin
with, you should have a few swimming suits. Most sports shops stocks various
swimming materials boxers, bikinis, pants and swimming trunks that are suitable
for men, women and children.
Choice the
ones that is most comfortable to you even the color of the clothing is a
personal preference.
Swimming
comes in many styles like the crawl or free style, the breast stroke, the
butterfly, the dolphin and the
Swimming can
be an intimidating task.
But it is
easy to learn to swim.
Take a small
or medium size basin and half fill it with water in front of a crawling baby,
some three yards away.
You will see
the baby moves toward the basin of water.
My dad was a
washer man. I was told he put me in his washing bath with some water to
distract me from him. I later realize the rivers, streams and lakes become my
friends early in my life.
So, swimming
becomes an integrated part of my life.
It is natural
for the baby to move toward the water, because the womb in which babes are
formed and developed is its natural environment. It is full of water in which
the baby made first home. The child will try as much as it can to get into the
water and have some fun.
Learning how
to swim can save a person life if ever one is stuck in water like the situation
of a boat capsizing.
So the basic
thing to do is to get comfortable in the water and have fun. Play around in the
water like our baby friend above; and then learn all the simple and basic breathing
and strokes techniques.
You are
nearly done and can get swimming soon.
Good luck to
your swimming adventure!
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