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History of Swimming: 1.freestyle Stroke/Crawl: Get A Full-Body Workout and Tone Up Overall
History of Swimming: 1.freestyle Stroke/Crawl: Get A Full-Body Workout and Tone Up Overall
History of Swimming: 1.freestyle Stroke/Crawl: Get A Full-Body Workout and Tone Up Overall
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HISTORY OF SWIMMING
4 SWIM STROKES
The front crawl or freestyle stroke needs you to keep your body straight and time
breaths with your strokes, tilting your head sideways to breathe at fixed intervals. Kick
hard with the feet and alternate raising arms overhead, bringing one into the water as
the other rises out on the other side.
you move your legs in a manner similar to a frog kick, with the knees bending, and
kick out below you inside the water. Your arms move in one stroke, starting at breast
level. As you push the water away with your arms, it propels the head out of the water
naturally, allowing you to take a breath. The breaststroke is the swimming stroke that
is linked to the lowest number of shoulder pain complaints from swimming. Although
you do need to lift your head to breathe, the way you lift your upper body is more
natural than in the butterfly stroke, so your lower back and spine are less likely to
experience strain as well.
Jude Marcial C. Pangilinan
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The butterfly stroke is seen as one of the more challenging strokes. When you do this,
you need to raise both your arms above your head simultaneously and then push
down into the water with them to propel the body forward. Your legs move in a
dolphin kick motion – straight and held together as you kick down with them.
With the backstroke, the principle remains similar to the crawl – only you lie on your
back and float instead of face down in the water. When you begin, your lungs should
be at the surface but the rest of you must be below the water level. Try and keep the
body as perfectly horizontal as you can while you move. Kick with your legs and
alternately raising one arm at a time. Bring it back into the water in a vertical arc, so
that the water that is pulled below your body propels you forward.
At the 1896 Summer Olympics, four swimming events were contested, all for men. They were planned
and organized by the Sub-Committee for Nautical Sports. All events took place on 11 April in the Bay of
Jude Marcial C. Pangilinan
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Zea. There was a total of 13 participants from 4 countries competing. (Hungary was the overall champ
with 2gold medals)