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Assuming laps means two lengths (there and back in a lane):

1yd = 0.9144m

20yd = 18.288m

2 lengths = 36.576m

1km = 1000m

= 1000m / 36.576m

~= 27.34 laps

(just over 54 2/3 lengths)

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It is not a good idea to go swimming when one has just had their toenail removed because it might become infected. It also depends on where you are swimming. Swimming in chlorinated water can be painful as the chlorine will "burn" your wound and you will be in pain. Rivers, lakes, and other open water bodies contain bacteria and parasites that can infect your wound.

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The ocean is very salty and salt dries out your mouth giving you the feeling that you are thirsty.

Actually, the reason is two fold:

(1) As with any exercise, you sweat while you swim, as a way to help cool your body, as exercise has increased the body temperature. It may seem amazing, but a typical competitive swimmer can easily lose several pounds of water weight during a typical day's 2 hour swim practice. This loss of water means you feel thirsty, in the same way that you would after an extended run. Look at most swim practices - swimmers will actually keep bottles of water at the end of the pool, and drink from them periodically.

(2) The human skin is not a waterproof barrier. The ocean, which contains a high concentration of salt, is out-of-balance with the water inside of the human body. As two adjacent volumes of a liquid with difference concentrations of a solute will try to balance themselves out, the low-salt water inside of the human body attempts to balance itself with the high-salt ocean water. Unfortunately, salt cannot be absorbed through the human skin, which means that the water inside the human body attempts to "balance" out the ocean water by diluting it (which, given the volume difference, is impossible). In effect, the salty ocean water "sucks" out water from the inside of the human body, as the two volumes attempt (futilely) to balance the salt concentration. This processes is slow, but not that slow. Thus, it is easy to become dehydrated while swimming in salt water, as the ocean literally sucks out the water from your body. A human being will die of dehydration while stuck swimming in the ocean far faster than they would by being in the middle of the hottest desert on earth.

Exacerbating (2), most people in the ocean manage to swallow a non-trivial amount (a pint or more) of ocean water if they spent any amount of time in anything other than completely calm water. The extremely high salinity of said water accelerates the dehydration process, as it sucks out water from the body into the digestive tract (to be eventually excreted in a couple of hours).

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The cannon relay is the last race in a gala. The fastest boy and girl in each year group come together as one swimming team and race the other teams.

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The question similar to, "Is Ford a good brand of car?". People have favorites for variuos reasons. Speedo as a brand would fall into this category. They have a wide range of styles and colors of swimsuits as well as apparel and accesories and traing equipment. The vast majority of their products are good quality but not everything. For example, I like their swim goggles because they fit me well. Others prefer different brands because they fit their eyes better. Speedo makes a great nylon "Endurance" brand racing suit that lasts long in chlorinated pool water and fits me well. I have used other brands and had good results as well. Speedo is a competative company with good products and good support for their vendors. I do not own any Speedo stock and I am not a sponsored athlete. I have been involved with competative swimming of and on for 40 years and Speedo is still a top choice of competative swimmers.

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no, within your muscles are slow and quick twitch muscle fibers, activities such as running and walking use quick twitch muscle fibers while swimming uses slow twitch muscle fibers

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A medley relay consists of four teammates doing a 50m of each stroke (backstroke followed by breastroke followed by butterfly and finally freestyle).

This differs from the 200 Individual Medley, which has a different order for the strokes: butterly, backstroke, breastsroke, freestyle. The primary reason for the change in order is that backstrokers start in the water as opposed to on the blocks. This makes it difficult (if not downright impossible) for a backstroker to start in the middle of a relay when another swimmer is trying to finish his/her leg. So, for relays, backstrokers are moved into first position.

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The correct term is length but there are 60 lengths in a 2000 free

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Our group uses plastic canvas as a base for our headpieces. They are cut to the desired shape and then covered with fabric, sewn on sequins, or glued on rhinestones. Because the plastic canvas is very flexible it can bewrapped around the swimmers head or bun and attached using bobby pins through the spaces in the plastic canvas. Additional loops can be added around the edges of the canvas to help secure the headpiece as well.

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yes

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Yes.

Probably, it depends on how bad the cut is, and the cleanness of the water you are swimming in.

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freestyle: snicff

backstoke: nakoce

butterfly: buttarfli

breaststroke: brstsko

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There are no activity restrictions when you have chlamydia, except for sexual activity.
Yes, you can swim during chlamydia treatment.

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In the fall of 2000 after the Summer Olympics in Sydney.

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Federation Internationale de Natation

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it varies on your training skills and how your body develops im on the swim team and theres a 14 year old girl that went to state, it truly depends on how you work and if the good lord gave you the body for it.

Looking at Olympic swimmers to judge where the best people are, the peak performance of men and women differs a bit.

Men, due to the significant amount of additional muscle growth that occurs in the late teens and early twenties, find they're peak swimming years are roughly 21-28. that is, before 21, men will find that they can make substantial year-on-year improvements in speed, while at 21-28 they peak and can only make very small year-to-year improvements, then only decline after 30 as muscle mass decreases.

Women, on the other hand, have two things working in opposition: the teenage years encompass a significant physical growth period, but increased hormonal influence decreases strength:weight ratios. Thus, top women performers usually peak in their mid-to-late teens, and can hold that until their mid-twenties at best. Thus, for women, they tend to peak at 17-24 or so.

Note, of course, these are generalizations, and there are always exceptions. But, for virtually everyone, their best speeds come during their college years (and shortly afterwards).

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well compared to other sports its more relaxing and it clears the lungs out so it improves your breathing that why swimmi8ng is a GREAT SPORT AND THERE IS MANY MORE REASONS WHY SWIMMING IS A GREAT SPORT

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Float, hold breath, doggie paddle, blow bubbles, head underwater

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Assuming that you're swimming in a standard 25m pool, 1.5k, or 1500m, would be equal to 60 lengths of the pool.

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STROKES

fly=butterfly

free=freestyle

breast=breaststroke

back=backstroke

IM (individual medley) = fly back breast free all in one race.

KICKS

flutter kick= freestyle/backstroke kick

dolphin kick= butterfly kick

frog kick= breastroke kick