if you do this you will succeed.” Candace Pearson. This is what my coach said to me before my very last breaststroke race of the season last summer. What does this mean? you might ask. That’s exactly what I asked myself before I got into the water. There are many ways to have a perfect breaststroke. Head position is one of the first things you need to know when talking about breaststroke. To resist the most water around the head area, you should keep your head at an approximate forty-five degree
the water using four different arm strokes and four different kicks. Each arm stroke has a kick designed to meet the tempo of the swim. We refer to the strokes in the order in which they are performed, the butterfly stroke, the backstroke, the breaststroke, and the freestyle stroke. The four strokes are consistently swum in this order based on the rules that govern competitive swimming. Butterfly Stroke The butterfly stroke is the first stroke of the individually medley event. The butterfly stroke
How to Swim the Breaststroke The breaststroke is the oldest known swimming stroke and is one of four strokes used in competitive swimming. This stroke is also very popular in leisure swimming because the head can be held up, making vision and breathing easy and because the swimmer can rest between strokes if needed. Swimmers can also use the breaststroke in survival swimming and in lifesaving situations. Since the breaststroke has many uses and is easy to learn, it is one of the best strokes to
Have you noticed advertisements to register in a local swim club or a competitive team? Have you been thinking about joining, but you don’t know anything about the swim community? In this article, you will learn the basic strokes, turns, pros, and cons of swimming. Let us start with the pros and cons of being on a swim team. My first pro is that it is the only activity that works every muscle in your body. Swimming works your heart, lungs, legs, arms, core, back. It also works upper body, and lower
competitive events became more prominent and strong. During that period while competing in one of the meets I was disqualified in 50 meters of Breaststroke final. I took it lightly thinking it might be some judging fault and I had already won 3 medals in the other strokes. This happened again in the next meet when I was disqualified in 50 meters of Breaststroke. This time I was completely shattered as I finished the race first but was technically disqualified. I was in disbelief, the stroke I had been
free style (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904. In the 1940s, breaststroke swimmers discovered they could go faster by bring both arms forward over their heads. Ur body is longer when you do that. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststro... ... middle of paper ... ...ter swimming event was held, as was a 200-meter obstacle event and 200-meter team-swimming event. The 200-meter backstroke also made its debut. In 1904, the first breaststroke event was contested at
Muscular system is a system which consists of specialized cells which called as muscle fibers. The main function of muscular system are allows the body movement, circulates the blood throughout the body, helps to maintain the posture such as standing and sitting and also function as heat production which helps to maintain the body temperature. Human body would not able to move at all without muscles. In human body there are more than 600 muscles and most of the muscles attached to the skeleton. Muscle
Blue Devils Swim teams own, Maddy Garber, junior, qualified for this year’s U.S. Olympic swim trial for the 100-meter breaststroke as well at the 200-meter breaststroke. The 20-year-old was CCSU’s lone representative for the summer trials that was held at Omaha Nebraska. She recalls the experience as something hard to wrap her head around as she was surrounded by many great Olympians such as, Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky, but, remembers the intensity in the room during that meet. “It was very
“Oxygen is overrated” Swimming is one of the few sports that can start at a very young age and can continue to do well into there 60s. When learning how to swim at a young age, it can look very overwhelming but as for every sport, the more practices the child gets the better they will become. Learning how to swim is a long process and it’s even longer on when teaching a child how to swim. Children at a young age are very afraid to get into water and even more afraid to get there head wet. Children
long-axis strokes is the swimmer must have the hips and legs aligned and so they don’t sink. Another important fact is to r... ... middle of paper ... ...ng. United States Masters Swimming, 2014. Web. 4 Jan. 2014. . Lepinksi, Cokie. "Master Breaststroke." U.S. Masters Swimming. United States Masters Swimming, 2014. Web. 4 Jan. 2014. . "Pool Locations." Clarence Swimming. TeamUnify, 2014. Web. 4 Jan. 2014. . "Swimming Drills." Mountain View Masters Swim & Social Club. Mountain View Masters, 2014
accomplishing a new goal. My first goal was to stop getting last place, stop being disqualified. It took many practices and a few swim meets to meet my goal. In order to stop being disqualified, I changed from Backstroke to Breaststroke. I had a little more struggle with Breaststroke, but I enjoyed it better. At first, I was disqualified for incorrect form, then after hours and hours of practice, I had the technique down. I still was not very fast at swimming any of my events, so that was my next
Common Strokes for Swimming There are four common strokes associated with swimming: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and crawl stroke. Breaststroke and backstroke are considered ‘rest’ strokes; crawl stroke, also known as freestyle, and butterfly are known as ‘power’ strokes. A rest stroke uses less energy to travel the same distance, however; it takes longer to achieve this distance. A power stroke uses more energy and covers greater distances in less time. The sidestroke and elementary-backstroke
closer look at what makes each stroke, I’ve realized that this method may not be all too accurate. Although these strokes appear to be very different, from body position, body undulation, and the muscle groups used, both the butterfly (fly) and breaststroke (breast) happen to be very similar
practicing each is fun and relaxing with a lot of positive benefits for the mind and the body. Now, out of the four main styles of swimming namely, breaststroke, backstroke, front crawl and butterfly, backstroke is the only one that is swum on the back. It is a comparatively slower style of swimming than front crawl and butterfly but faster than breaststroke swimming. Now, if you are learning swimming at a reputed Katy swim club and have reached a stage where you are required to learn backstroke swimming
in open water occasionally ends in drowning. Since the nineteenth century, swimmers have turned to a supervised area for a safer environment. When learning to swim in North America, younger kids are usually taught “freestyle” or the crawl, while breaststroke is taught in Europe and Asia (MLA 7th Edition). Competitive swimm... ... middle of paper ... ...lo, open water swimming, diving, and synchronized swimming. Over 200 programs from around the world belong to it. There are many levels to FINA
Swimming is a very important physical activity. Swimming is a sport that exercises many muscles. Some muscles that swimming develops are: chest, back, hamstrings, shoulder, lat muscles. Anybody who would swim for a while would benefit from swimming. Swimming burns a lot of calories per hour. Depending on your weight, you can burn hundreds of calories. For example, if you weigh approximately 150 pounds, you can burn up to 700 calories. If I was required to swim three days a week, i could access a
The regular person thinks that swimming isn’t really complex. One person just swims down and back and thats it. Nothing else, nothing more deep into the sport and nothing really changed about it either. But how has swimming changed as a sport in the last 50 years? The sport has changed so much throughout the last 50 years because what the American people are doing to improve the sport. Swimming has been almost the same sport since the 60’s-70’s, but things that have changed are the swimmers, technique
leisure activity. It was usually not for competing. Swimming first evolved when people found ten thousand year old rock paintings with people swimming on them on a cave of a wall in Egypt. The pictures showed different swimming styles such as the breaststroke and the doggy paddle. The most famous
“What's the best sport for a child with autism?” That is a commonly asked question. It has some of the same factors as most kids typical kids. If the kid likes the sport then that is the sport for them. Even though autism does affect social and communicational skills and a impact on coordination, so sports like soccer, basketball, and hockey would be hard. Individual sports could be the key. Surprisingly parents teach their small kids to play complicated team sports including soccer, football and
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