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!


Miebakagh57 (Miebakagh Fiberesima) Copyright 2014-2015

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Swim For Life

I love swimming period.

Swimming is one of the best all round body workout activity.

Every person can take part in swimming. There is no age restriction.

You are formed within a swimming environment, the womb, and you should learn to swim. It is an inborn trait.

If you cannot swim, learn the ropes. There is a simple form of it with no much ado.

I write in one of my articles, “Sound Physical Activities” that a baby before birth learn to swim in his/her mother’s womb.

I held this statement dear and true. When a baby kicks in the womb, he/she is swimming.

You may also say the baby is just turning. Notice the posture of a month old baby when kicking and stretching out its arms while happily playing on its back.

Notice also a six month old baby crawling. Is not these movements somehow similar to swimming strokes?
All these are true to some limit.

Persons who do not know how to swim can do this crawling action in water at chest level and see how far to go. Without much ado, they can learn the beginner method of swimming in real time.

With that said, get a season coach to teach you how to swim at a moderate cost for three weeks or more. I learn to swim in two weeks time. It is worth the cost.

But if you want to go for competitive swimming, go for longer period of training.

I am talking here only of swimming for fitness and building strength. This is for life.

Benefits Of Swimming: If you cannot swim, and I am sure you would love to learn it later, here are the many benefits you get.

• Ensures cardio-respiratory fitness. It keeps your heart rate up.
• It takes stress off your mind and body.
• Less impact that protects the joints from stress, strain and tension. That is why swimming is recommend by the Arthritis Foundation http://www.arthritis.org/
 • It tones the muscles and skin.
 • It burns calories.
• Cools the body during a hot weather.

Additional Health Benefits:

 • It improves coordination, balance and posture.
• For some sporting injuries and conditions, it is recommended that subjects go for a swim for a good low impact therapy.
• It builds strength because of high resistance in the water to move from one point to another point.
• No pain to gain as on land exercise.
• It benefits for a life time as a healthy workout.

Why Should You Learn To Swim: There are many reasons why you should learn how to swim. Here are a few.
1.Swim to build your body. Persons who swim regularly do so to build their body. The stretching out and the kicking of the arms and legs couple with breathing is an all round mechanical action that builds the body and all the muscles of the arms, shoulders, back, chest and hip; the thigh and legs and much more. The movement of the body, slow or fast against the draft builds your body.

2. Swim to relax mind and body. Yes, one can swim to banish tension and relax the mind and the body. Stress builds tension and strain the mind. One way to free your-self from this is to swim. It pays you to learn one rope of the trick or two. Stress affects all-students, scholars, workers, nursing mothers and children.
 3. Swim to rejuvenate and tone the skin. Dry skin is a bad skin. So is an oily skin. Swimming rejuvenated and toned your skin in a wonderful way. Why is it that some beauty salon or therapy soaked you in a saline bath? I recalled while growing up that most beauty queens that ever won a beauty contest in my locality came from the riverine or creek area.
Their secrets? Swimming in the river to rejuvenate the skin.

 4. Swim for the fun of it. Swimming is a competitive sport. But it is also a physical activity that can be enjoyed for fun as a paste time by every person.

 Swimming Strokes: The most popular swimming strokes are the breast stroke, the back stroke the butterfly and the crawl. The later is very simple and most suitable and popular for beginners. The back stroke is also an easy stroke. The breast stroke and the butterfly are hard strokes and will take you much ado to master it well. In competitive swimming, it is note if you mistakenly miss one stoke in the breast stroke you completely disqualify in the race, even if you come up at the top. That is how hard it is.
The Crawl or Free Style Stroke: It is the most popular and easy stroke for beginners as noted above. You will have a hard time to coordinate your breathing. Practice will make it easier for you. There are three ways to do the crawl. Get a good swimmer to teach you.

Pre-Cautions:

• Do not swim while you are hungry or you feel very cold. Should it happen that you need to eat have wines and juicy.
• Do not swim in very cold water or when there is a heavy rainfall.
• Identify the area you are swimming as safe.
• If you are a beginner, do not swim alone.
• Do not swim alone in swift moving rivers, lakes and seas. Instead, go with a trainer or a good swimmer.

To your good health!
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Sound Physical Activities

A sound physical activity is part of good healthy living.
It means how you move your body like walking, running, taking a stroll, jogging and swimming. It includes climbing a stair or playing a game of soccer, tennis or baseball.
All forms of sports and aerobics are sound physical activities.
It is tired along with nutrition. You can eat all the best foods rich in carbohydrates, fats and proteins, but good health may still evade you if you do not get active.
Why? Our body needs to be strong to digest and absorb these nutrients.
Activities like jogging, for example makes your blood flow all over your body and carried digested food nutrients along with it.
Nursing mothers massaging a baby arms, shoulders, legs, back tells you that the babe’s body need to be develop for sound health benefit.
 Sound physical activity comes in various forms.
Whether you are handicap or not, you should had two or three physical activity to keep your body strong and vigorous.
How serious physical handicap you are is not a barrier. Just consult your physician for advice.
Your activity should be from moderated to vigorous or both.
The center for disease control has good advice for this.
Visit the link here http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/everyone/guidelines/adults.html
Copy and paste it into your internet browser.
 For just only 30 minutes a day, less or more, you can build up a strong healthy body that is a negative to chronic diseases and other common ill health like the common cold.
It pays to be physical active regularly.
Remember that peoples who exercise or indulged in vigorous to moderate physical activities like swimming and jogging other than house hold chores like washing the car or chopping woods or climbing the stairs do not easily contact a cold virus or the cold.
In other words, an active body always resists a cold virus and symptoms.
It should not be a daily venture. Just two or three days in the week is all that it takes to do some of the activities.
This is not asking more. The best thing about this is that you can do any of the aerobic exercises at your convenience, even in your living room.
Exercises like press-ups and downs, pull and push, he jumping jack, etc builds your body muscles in a wonderful way.
Just pick two or three days in the week for this. This should be a regular exercise if you have to get the best benefit from it.
 That said, a baby lying on its back in a happy mood and kicking its legs and stretching its arms suggests the child is doing an activity to develop his/her body.
On close note, it is a style of swimming which the child use to turn here and there while in its mother’s womb.
Many will agree with this statement. Babes are fond of waters.
 Schedule Your Exercise: For example, I schedule my exercise Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This is at my convenience and time. 10 -15 minutes is what it takes me indoors.
But I jog a mile on the last Saturday of the month.
You can begin with just only 10 minutes and this is not bad at all for beginning. It is much better if you maintain this 10 minutes regularly on the set days.
When I am not getting involved in doing the press-ups and downs, I swim in the river Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays even on a Tuesday.
 I get the same benefits as if I am doing the press-ups and downs.
By swimming, you stretch your arms and kick your legs in the water to move. There is much gain to get in swimming.
Benefits Of Swimming

• Swimming regularly will improve coordination, balance and good posture.
• It will keep your heart rate up and  takes off some stress of your body.
• Swimming tones the muscles.
• It coordinates fitness and endurance.
• Swimming is a all round body workout as all the muscles of the body are called into play.

Your body relaxed against the water that absorbed your tension.
Swimming is one of the best natural exercises like walking, jogging and running that build a strong and healthy body.
Begin to cultivate a habit to do some physical activities weekly, two or three times in the week. Vigorous Physical Activities: This includes running/jogging, brisk walking, swimming and aerobic. Cycling, playing sports games like baseball, soccer, tennis and badminton benefits.
Dancing your time away is a good physical activity as seen in aerobic dancing.
In fact, any sporting activity that keeps the body strong and healthy is good.
I do not recommend violent sports like kick boxing and wrestling that wounds, maim and kills; because not every person can take part in such an activity.
These are not real physical activities. They come under one word fight. You can take that in the moderate form and then build up your activity later, say in a week time.
 Health Benefits: sound physical activities develop the major muscles of the body. The muscles of the leg, hip, back, abdomen and chest; shoulder and arm are affected positively.
The jumping lack, the press ups and downs and push and pull can make strong these muscles. This is not a body building task but a simple means to keep the body in good sharp, fit and healthy.
Jogging and running develops the thigh and leg muscles. Jogging regularly 30 minutes a day increases the heart beat and push your blood all over your body. This will carry much essential food nutrients all over the body.
You can increase your jogging time to 1 hour in the week.
Swimming in the open water and in a swimming pool will make your leg and arm muscles strong.
I am a good jogger and swimmer. It keeps me fit and alert. I jog in my living room if I cannot do it outside during a heavy thunderstorm and heavy rainfall.
Swimming in the open water is fine provided you live near a riverbank or sea side.
More Health Benefit: I will only sum up these briefly.
• It increases longevity. Jogging regularly will increase your life span by 15 years.
• You will feel much better about yourself.
• You get less worry or chance of getting depressed.
• You can relax well and sleep well.
• You will eat your meal well and it will be properly digested and absorbed.
• Your muscles and bones become strong.
• You get the chance to burn undesirable body fats and lose weight or tone your muscles.
• Less risk of heart diseases, high blood pressure and stroke.
 • Physical activity of any form release tension in the mind and body, and promotes relaxation.
• You will think better and the saying a healthy mind in a healthy body becomes a reality in your life too.
 • You stay youthful and energetic even into old age provide you doing it regularly.
• A single activity like swimming or the jumping jack alone will make the muscles of the arm, shoulder, chest, heart and hips, and legs strong.
Tips For Staying Active
• Do some gardening or go fishing by hulling net into the river.
• You can briskly walk up and down the football field or the neighborhood.
• Wash the car or clean the house. • Mend the broken furniture in the home if you can do it.
 • Walk to work and back sometimes for the fun of staying healthy if the distance is less than a mile.
• Have something light to eat before any vigorous or moderate activity and rest for an hour before rushing into it.
I mentioned above that a nursing mother massage her baby’s body to tone it strong.
Do you recalled that while in school you are required to take an active role in scheduled exercise? But now that we are grown up and have left school, most of us do not bother again about stretching and kicking like the horse.
We turn on the TV and sat for hours to watch a show. We put a disc in the player and sat down for the streaming entertainment.
We end up with one ailment or two; perhaps a stiff back or a tensed joint.
Plan an activity that tone your body muscles today.
To your good health!
Miebakagh57 (Miebakagh Fiberesima) Copy right 2014