Swimming

The strengths, physically, are stronger muscles, like the quads, calves, abs, biceps, triceps, hamstrings, latimus dorsi, gastrophnimius, and others. The mental strengths are being able to focus, self confidence, and more friends that can relate to you through swimming.

The order for any IM is butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.

4 lengths of 25m (not 25km) is 100m

So 4x4=16 lengths to make 400m

a swim taken for leisure purposes

seeing as ive been doing this for 93 years, 24 1/2, my baby sheep tiger ate half of my 56th.

im not positive but since the olympic games originated in Greece then i would believe that since swimming was an event then, that is where it started as a sport

I think that isn't true because swimming wasnt there back in Greece then

well it depends. ---- a shorter 25 yard pool is well, 25 yards there is also a 25 meter pool but that is MUCH more uncommon the olympic sized pool is 50 meters (a little over double the shorter 25 yard) for all this i am assuming that u mean one length as in "there" NOT "there-and-back"

On the bottle it should tell you how much per gallon of water, also it depends on how bad your pool is. If you're really unfamiliar, you better get the pro's, unless its a small seasonal pool, then I go with not enough chemical, go light because you don't want anyone to die in it.

you can't, but wearing two caps helps a little bit

When they are inclined to move, most stingrays swim by undulating their bodies like a wave; others flap their sides like wings.

A swim club is usually used to hold events for groups of people who enjoy swimming and competing to become better at the stroke and achieve faster times. Swim clubs might hold races once a fortnight after school to practice new skills taught in training or a swim club might hold fundraisers to raise money to travel for the swimming company to compete in different states or overseas
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Swimming was developed mostly in China and in Rome. Way back, there were many subtle lands and quicksands in those places so they dug it out and poured water.Sooner, several farmers who watched this digging of their land suggested that they should have it tiled so that it would look clean. After they did this, many countries have come to compete in this sport and sooner or later it was transferred to all of its neighboring countries. After 15 yrs. they developed it and made a bigger pool so that the competitions would be more challenging. In those times, they call it the "Fasga Lumba" which means "big puddle" in latin translation.

I would assume this means face down with arms straight out- or cruciform as this is Superman:s usual flying posture. I have never heard this term used- a static breast stroke if you will, that seems to make sense.

"Slow Crawl" refers to commonly know "free style stroke" at a slow speed. It is call that because the freestyle stroke resembles someone crawling.

Between swimming, football, and softball, any of them can be tough depending on the person playing.

Not yet. Even if we solve the question of breathing underwater, our skins aren't designed to be in water too long. I suppose science may find a way to let us live underwater eventually, we certainly can't do it now.

In my experience, in a 25 yard pool average mile times for a female are anywhere from 16:30 (minutes:seconds) to 19:00, and for males anywhere from 15:00 to 17:00. It's a bit different in an olympic pool because it's 50 meters and instead of the 1650 yards in the 25 yard pool, it's 1500 meters in the olympic pool.

My 50 free time is 22.4

Realistically speaking, the above is far too optimistic. Taking a typical high school male kid who is in-shape and a member of the schools' swimming team, a 1500m or 1650 yard swim will typically take about 19 minutes. Very Fast times for male high school swimmers would be a bit under 17 minutes, in competition. For comparison, the U.S. Olympic Trials qualifying times for the 1500m freestyle is 15:11.

For an "average" swimmer (one who is quite competent at the freestyle stroke, and knows how to do a good flipturn) who is not training competitively, but is otherwise fit, 30 minutes is more realistic for a 1-mile swim in a pool. Outdoor swimming (particularly in rougher water) adds considerably to this, so a 1-mile swim in a lake under calm conditions should take at least 40 minutes, while it could take an hour or more in rough water (2-3ft swells). Swimming in the open ocean is even more difficult, due to the much greater wave height; frankly, for the average swimmer, swimming long distances in the open ocean in anything more than calm waters is practically impossible, as they will tire out long before they get very far.

Remember that distance swimming is far more difficult to do quickly than short distances, as swimming is an extremely heavy cardio-vascular workout; most "average" swimmers can swim short distances at only slightly slower speeds than "very good" swimmers. The difference between the two is in endurance levels - while very good or better swimmers can generally sustain a speed of at least 80% of their flat-out sprint speed, average swimmers are lucky to maintain 50% of their maximum sprint speed.

For comparison purposes, back in high school for me (late 1980s), my best competition time for the 1650 (25 yard short course pool) was 16:51, which was good enough to put me in the top 500 high school swimmers NATIONWIDE (U.S.A.). That means there were likely no more than 2,000 or so people in the entire country who were faster, of ANY age. Thus, a time of 16:51 was in the top 0.0001% (1 in 100,000) for the entire population. Swimming times have gotten better in the past 30 years, but (even with the new high-tech suits), only about 5% faster. And an "average" swimmer is radically slower than a top-end one. Remember, a 19-minute 1650 is still better than 1:10 per 100 yards, which most people have difficulty sustaining even for short distances. A 30-minute mile is about 1:50 per 100 yards. A 16:51 for 1650 yards is just over 1:01 per 100 yards.

In the 1500m freestyle: 1991 Men's World Record was 14:50, while the 2011 record is 14:34, a drop of about 2%.

This is the easiest way to not hold your nose underwater. When you go underwater, blow bubbles out of your nose. This will prevent the water from entering your nose. Just blow bubbles out of your nose frequently and no water will get up your nose.

you dont have to put any thing on your head but if you dont want your hair to get wet , get a swimming cap

Breath training is important. A regular distance and speed intense workout with little rest between sets is key. Also, looking at the event as a sprint/semi-sprint race will help prevent too slow of a pace.

they are basiaccly the requirements that you can swim for a long distance, for example if you swim in your indoor pool its going to be easier than swimming outside in the sea because of the factors so you have to train harder that you want to. these are the requirements of a long distance swimmer

It's the same as if you were swimming normally, swim 50m at a 45 degree angle to the current or if you are not a strong swimmer let the current take you out the swim 50m'sat a 90 degree angle to escape, never try to swim directly against a current or rips you will exhaust yourself and drown

It is breaststroke. Breaststroke uses the most energy per each stroke. Butterfly uses the most because it is the fastest.

The second fastest swimming stroke is Butterfly.

I am not medically trained but as a tracheotomy is a surgical procedure in which a cut or opening is made in the windpipe (trachea) into which the surgeon inserts a tube to allow air to get to the lungs, I would have thought that the risk of water entering this tube (and therefore the lungs) while swimming would be high. I would therefore think that swimming would not be encouraged while the tube was in place.

However once the tube is removed and the wound has healed I would have thought that it may be possible to swim again (on medical advice).