Here are some key benefits of swimming: - Cardiovascular health - Swimming is a low-impact full body workout that can help lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease. It strengthens the heart and lungs. - Muscle toning - Swimming works all the major muscle groups including arms, legs, core and back. It helps build muscle and tone the body without stressing the joints. - Stress relief - Swimming is meditative and relaxing. It helps reduce stress and anxiety by taking your focus off daily worries. The calming effects of water can lower stress levels. - Weight management - Swimming burns a significant amount of calories per hour. It is an effective way to lose

1. Swimming
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2. Swimming is a movement through water using
one’s limbs and usually without artificial apparatus.
Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and
recreational.
“The move is an ongoing process of falling forward and a
mass dropped from a higher level drops quickly, "says
Bejan.
“The swimmer that makes the
biggest wave is the faster, and
makes a long trunk and larger
waves. Europeans have a 3%
longer than the West African
body, and this gives them 1.5%
more speed advantage in the
pool, "he completes.

3. History
Swimming has been known since prehistoric
times; the earliest records of swimming date back to
Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago.
Written references date from 2000 BC. Some of the
earliest references include the Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the
Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, Isaiah
25:11), Beowulf, and other sagas.
In 1538, Nikolaus Wynmann, a German professor
of languages, wrote the first swimming book, The
Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming.

4. History
Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800,
mostly using breaststroke. In 1873 John Arthur Trudgen
introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions,
after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans.
Due to a British disregard for splashing, Trudgen employed
a scissor kick instead of the front crawl's flutter kick.
Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games
(1896 in Athens). In 1902 Richard Cavill introduced the
front crawl to the Western world. In 1908, the world
swimming association, Fédération Internationale de
Natation (FINA), was formed. Butterfly was developed in
the 1930s and was at first a variant of breaststroke until it
was accepted as a separate style in 1952.

6. Swimming is also used in marine
biology to observe plants and animals in
their natural habitat. Other sciences use
swimming, for example Konrad Lorenz
swam with geese as part of his studies
of animal behavior.
For Marine Biology

7. For Military Purpose
Swimming also has military purposes. Military
swimming is usually done by special forces, such as
Navy SEALS. Swimming is used to approach a
location, gather intelligence, sabotage or combat, and
to depart a location. This may also include airborne
insertion into water or exiting a submarine while it is
submerged. Due to regular exposure to large bodies
of water, all recruits in the United States Navy,
Marine Corps, and Coast Guard are required to
complete basic swimming or water survival training.

8. For Professional Sport
Swimming is also a professional sport.
Companies sponsor swimmers who are at the
international level. Cash awards are also given at
many of the major competitions for breaking
records.
Professional swimmers may also earn a living
as entertainers, performing in water ballets.

12. It is possible to swim by moving
only legs without arms or only arms
without legs. Such strokes may be
used for special purposes, for training
or exercise, or by amputees and
paralytics.

13. Benefits of Swimming:

28. Risks of swimming
There are health risks and dangers associated with swimming.
Most recorded drownings fall into one of three categories:
 Panic where the inexperienced swimmer or non swimmer
becomes mentally overwhelmed by the circumstances of their
immersion.
 Exhaustion, where the person is unable to sustain effort to
swim or tread water.
 Hypothermia, where the person loses critical core temperature,
leading to unconsciousness or heart failure.

29. Swimming: an individual sport
Swimming is mostly an individual
sport, there is no team involved in it
as there is in football.
Swimmers compete as individuals
in competitions, and their fate relies
on their own hands, not the coach,
not the “team” mates but their own.

30. Top 10 Swimmers of All Time
1. Mark Spitz, born 1950
2. Michael Phelps, born 1985
3. Ian Thorpe, born 1982
4. Aleksandr Popov, born 1971
5. Pieter van den Hoogenband, born 1978
6. Jenny Thompson, born 1973
7. Grant Hackett, born 1980
8. Krisztina Egerszegi, born 1974
9. Debbie Meyer, born 1952
10. Kristin Otto, born 1966

31. Mark Andrew Spitz
 is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time
Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at
the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven gold
medals, all in world record time.

32. Michael Fred Phelps
 is an American former competitive swimmer and
the most successful and most decorated Olympian
of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also
holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals,
Olympic gold medals in individual events, and
Olympic medals in individual events.

33. Ian James Thorpe
 is an Australian retired swimmer who specialized in
freestyle, but also competed in backstroke and the
individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold
medals, the most won by any Australian.

34. Alexander Popov
 is a former Russian swimmer. Widely considered the
greatest sprint swimmer in history, Popov won gold in the
50-metre and 100 m freestyle at the 1992 Olympics and
repeated the feat at the 1996 Olympics, and is the only male
in Olympic games history to defend both titles.

35. Pieter van den Hoogenband
 is a Dutch former swimmer. He is a triple
Olympic champion and former world record
holder.

36. Jenny Thompson
 is an American former competition swimmer and
anesthesiologist. She is one of the most decorated
Olympians in history: twelve medals, including eight
gold medals, in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004
Summer Olympics.

37. Grant Hackett
 is an Australian swimmer, most famous for winning the
men's 1500 meters freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer
Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens. This achievement has led him to be regarded as one
of the greatest distance swimmers in history.

38. Krisztina Egerszegi
 is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and
one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the
modern era. She is a three-time Olympian and five time
Olympic champion; and one of three individuals to have ever
won the same swimming event at three consecutive Summer
Olympics.

39. Debbie Meyer
 is an American former competition swimmer, a
three-time Olympic champion, and a former world
record-holder in four events. Meyer won the 200-,
400-, and 800-meter freestyle swimming races in the
1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

40. Kristin Otto
 is a German Olympic swimming champion. She is
most famous for being the first woman to win six
gold medals at a single Olympic Games, doing so at
the 1988 Seoul Olympic games. In long course, she
held the world records in the 100 meter and 200
meter freestyle events.

41. Some general tips for swimming
Before you dive in:
 Make sure you know how to swim.
 Choose a safe environment.
 Warm up and stretch your muscles and joints before
entering the water.
 Have plenty of fluids on hand and drink regularly.
 Don’t overdo it if you’re just starting out.
 See your doctor if you haven’t exercised for a long time.

42. Thank You!
Be ready for the long quiz...

43. Why swimming is important for everyone?
Give at least one or two benefits of swimming
and explain?
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