Swimming provides an excellent full-body cardiovascular workout that tones the arms, legs, and core muscles. It can be enjoyed by people of all fitness levels and is a useful skill for life. There are four main competitive swimming strokes - breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and freestyle crawl - as well as other activities that can be done in the water. Swimming is also a low-impact activity that can be continued throughout one's life and offers health benefits like improved cardiorespiratory fitness and muscle mass.

1. Swimming
Designed by: Nabeel Fattah
Written by:
Nabeel, Simon,
Winnie, Alex
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2. Swimming
Introduction:
• is a life skill which is useful at every stage of life.
• is a very good exercise to keep your body
balanced and also a life saving skill.
• You can be in peak physical condition or out of
shape to swim.
• There are four competitive swimming strokes
and a multitude of other activities that can be
done in the water.
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3. Description:
• provides an excellent cardiovascular workout.
• it works the entire body, toning your arms, legs and
core.
Dive in head first. Going for a swim is a great way to
tone your body and improve your general fitness,
without placing too much strain on your joints.
An enjoyable way to work out, swimming will help
you to burn fat and get the streamlined body you’ve
been dreaming of. Sounds like it’s time to start
making a splash...
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4. Brief History:
• In the early 1800s, swimming clubs developed in
Britain for young men to showcase their skills.
• In a London swimming competition in 1844, two
Native Americans named Flying and Tobacco.
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5. What are the swimming strokes?
Breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and crawl
(freestyle) are the most popular swim strokes. The
breaststroke and butterfly are more difficult to
learn than the backstroke and crawl.
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6. What are the benefits of swimming?
• Low impact
• Can be continued for a lifetime
• Builds cardiorespiratory fitness
• Builds muscle mass
• An alternative when injured
• It's a break from the summer heat
• It's a family affair
• Burns calories
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7. Swimming is popular:
1. people can find a place to swim very easy e.g
beach river and swimming pool.
2. swimming is good for health. e.g lose
weight and enhance resistance.
3. swimming is a high ornamental value
competition, because it has many style.
e.g freestyle, butterfly stroke, breaststroke and
backstroke
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8. Pleasure and Dangerous of Swimming:
Everything has two sides，swimming is
no exception。Nowadays，more and
more person especially the young people
take part in this sports，because
swimming is considered to be a healthy
and relaxing activity。Working or
learning pressure lead to people’s life
increasely boring。At this time ，
swimming can be change this conditions。
While，swimming also strengthens your
heart muscles and improves the delivery
of oxygen to the different parts of the
body。
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9. As a audience，watch the swimming
matches is also greatly exciting，because the
playing time is short，people must
concentrate our effects on the match，so it
can be forget their exhaustion and trouble。
However，both professional sportsman and
amateur must pay attention to safety 。It is
really necessary to warm up before games or
exercise。If you get a cramp or inhaled
water ，it is very dangerous。As a amateur，
no lifeguard‘s around and no allowed
surroundings are results in unsafe。Of
course，it is a situation that can be
prevented in many ways，if we are carefully。
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