SWIMMIMNG- HISTORY, EXERCISES AND BASIC KNOWLEDGE

- BASIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SWIMMING
-HISTORY OF SWIMMING
-HISTORY OF WOMEN AND SWIMMING
-BASIC EXERCISES

1. MY FAVOURITE SPORT DISCIPLINE SWIMMING Presentation was made by: Wiktoria Srokosz

2. SWIMMING- WHAT IS IT? Swimming is a way of moving in water. It is quite intuitive. Most animals, after falling into the water can come back to the shore, even though they don't know any specific swimming style. They are moving as they can, usually unwittingly using dog paddle style which is the easiest, the most popular and intuitive swimming style. But sometimes our natural ability to swim just isn't enough. If a person or an animal falls unexpectedly to the deep, cold sea it can easily panic and drawn. That's why people have come up with better and faster ways to move through the water than just splashing it around us, having no idea what we're actually doing.

3. BASIC SWIMMING STYLES 1.Front Crawl(free style) It's the fastest and most common swimming style. Most swimming competitions require swimmers to be familiar with this style.

4. 2.Backstroke Backstroke very similar to crawl. You lie in your back and alternate your arms with a windmill-like motion to move yourself backwards. You should also rotate your arm, so the pinky finger get to the water before rest of the hand. Your leg movement should be exactly the same as in crawl. 

5. 3. Breaststroke Also known as "The frog style", because the movement of it looks a lot like the one used by frogs to transport themselves.  

6. COMPARE SWIMMING FROG BREAKSTROKE 

7. 4. Butterfly style It’s the most complicated swimming style. Though it's not the fastest one, it burns the most calories. That's because it engages a lot of different muscles to create a butterfly-like movement.

8. HISTORY OF SWIMMING Roots of modern swimming reaches ancient Egypt, Greek and Roman civilizations  2500 year before our era. Swimming was often used as a way to develop strength and get more fit, but swimming races were rather no phenomenom (there are some information about races in ancient Greek, but there is not much of it). First heated swimming pool was built in 1st century by a man called Gaius Maecenas. Unfortunately, in Europe it took a lot more time to take swimming as a sport discipline. It wasn't until 1800s that swimming was taken as a competitive sport, all thanks to Matthew Webb, who first ignited public interest in swimming by becoming a first person to swim across The English Chanell. Swimming became an Olympic sport  in 1896 year in The First Modern Olympic Games. The competition took place in  Mediterranean Sea. 

9. WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF SWIMMING  Women had not been allowed to take part in swimming Olympic competition till 1912s. In 1926, nineteenth years old  Gertrude Ederle has became  the first woman  the first woman to swim the English Channel. She beat the men’s record by two hours and thus, she is forever inscribed in the history of swimming. Have you ever wondered how swimming equipment looked over a 100 years ago? In Victorian era (1837-1901) women's bathing suits were basically long dresses. You can imagine, that swimming in such thing could be quite hard. Of course, as the time passed swim suits were becoming more and more comfortable and lighter in weight, to allow swimmers reach higher speeds. Googles were also something. First swimming googles were made in Persia in 14-th century from polish tortoise shells  Then, people started making wooden googles, and in 1950s, open water swimmers used rubber goggles with lenses. 

10. Wooden swimming googles

11. EXERCISES TO GET BETTER AT SWIMMING 1. 90 degrees backstroke It's an exercise that develops inner leg, back and ABS muscles and helps with pelvic stabilization. You should lie on the water on your back, kick your legs as in crawl, held one arm along the body, and the other in the air, at an angle of 90 degrees to the chest. When you swim and push your pelvis up, everything will be alright. But, if you stop kicking hard enough or lower your pelvis, you will start sinking.  This exercise also helps with staying above the water (on its surface) (floating) , not under it, which is basically the all point of swimming. 2. Another in-water exercise  to improve our swimming skills is called Cancers It's a two-people funny exercise, that helps you with staying on water's surface, coordination, develops ABS muscles and teaches team-work. One person grabs the other's ancles with hands, and kick with one-selves' legs as in crawl. The other person moves his/her arms, also exactly like in crawl. The catch is, that first person doesn't move his/her arms, and the second one doesn't move his his/her legs. They swim one huge crawl together, as one of them is legs and the other arms. They must cooperate, otherwise they won't move. In the middle of swimming track the "leg person" pulls to himself/herself by the ankles the "arms person", they split and start racing a crawl.

12. 3. Third exercise is an out-of-the-water type of exercise, and it's the Vaccum exercise. It's a breath exercise, which helps reduce back pain, practices deep abdominal muscles, and stabilizes spine and pelvis. It also improves respiratory capacity as it requires you to hold your breath and teaches to breathe the diaphragm. Both of those thing are of course important in swimming, where you have to be able to hold your breath for a while. To do vaccum , you should lay on the ground, take a deep breath and then, breath out as much air from your lungs as you can. After that, you should take a brerath without actually taking it, to suck in your abdomen. Hold it for 10-15 sec, and then take a deep breath. You should do it 3 times in a row.

13. 4. The last exercise to improve swimming skills that I would like to show you today is pushups. I know, pretty basic one, but it develops your chest muscles, which play crucial part in swimming, you use them in almost every swimming style.

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