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Mrs. Medeiros
AP English 12
19/11/14
Swim Training Swimming over the years has started to become increasingly more popular. It has also changed a lot over the years. The suits are different, the pools are much more high tech, there are goggles, apps to track your times, and most of all how you train. There is many misconceptions about what really works and how it trains your body. the broadest way to put it is distance training and sprint training then everything else just falls in between that. “Although Japan gets credit for holding the first swimming races in 36 B.C., England gets credit for turning it into a competitive sport in the 1800s. Swimming the English Channel was true proof of a successful competitive swimmer, one that could go the distance regardless of the speed, or lack thereof. Speed became a factor when a
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