I am a high school student who tries to balance the amount of sports I participate in with the arts. Every fall‚ I participate in high school swimming; every winter I participate in archery and Family of Christ’s all church musical; every spring I participate in high school softball; every summer I spend swimming on a club team while training for archery and softball over the off season; while year round I take piano lessons and participate in rehearsals for my church’s student led choir. Needless
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Wellness 2 Essay on Why Swimming Should be Part of the Wellness Curriculum 10/09/2012 Swimming: An Important Life Skill Swimming is a very important and necessary life skill to have; for this reason it should be included in part of the wellness curriculum at Newington High School. If a person has the proper knowledge of life saving skills/techniques‚ he or she will be able to save his or her own life as well as other people. Swimming is also an abundant way of exercise. Lastly‚ it is a pleasurable
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History of swimming The sport of swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7‚000 years ago. Written references date from 2000 BC. Some of the earliest references to swimming include the Gilgamesh‚ the Iliad‚ the Odyssey‚ the Bible‚ Beowulf‚ Quran and other sagas. In 1778‚ Nikolaus Wynmann‚ a German professor of languages‚ wrote the first swimming book‚ The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming (Der Schwimmer
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in country creates a path to successful operation of a business. Political changes in sense of Government law enforcement give an impact in whatsoever business. Company requires more physical work which needs many workmen at job site to construct swimming pool. Government implement on new rule to restrict the numbers of foreign workers in country‚ some of the existing workers forced to sent back to their own country where they are not allowed to extend their passport or stay longer in this country
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Swimming Swimming is the act of moving through the water by using the arms‚ legs‚ and body in motions called strokes. The most common strokes are the crawl‚ backstroke‚ breaststroke‚ butterfly‚ and sidestroke. Some scientists believe that human beings are born with an instinctive ability to use their arms and legs to stay afloat. That instinct‚ however‚ disappears within a few months after birth. Later in life many children and adults learn to swim in order to be safe around
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Research Paper In Basic Swimming History of Swimming The history of swimming goes way back to that of prehistoric times. Books written from 2000 to 1500 BC including the Bible have references to swimming. It was mostly used in these times as a means of cleansing. Any form of competitive swimming wasn’t formed until the 1800’s in Europe. It was included in the first Olympics in 1896 in Athens‚ Greece. It was noted that Ancient Egypt had cave drawings of humans swimming in the nearby sea. They
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I liked. The problem I discussed with Nitai was public swimming pools‚ and the fact that sometimes it’s “easy” for the lifeguard to miss the signs of a drowning person‚ especially if the person suddenly sinks and goes under water without showing any previous signs. Especially when the pool is crowded‚ the lifeguard simply can’t see everyone at every single moment. Statistics shows that Each Year‚ Over 200 People Drown In Lifeguarded Swimming Pools‚ We watched a few videos catched by surveillance
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Swimming was just not my strong point. As an adolescent‚ someone jumped onto me in a swimming pool‚ and it made me go under unexpectedly‚ and it scared the living daylights out of me. I tried to avoid going into any swimming pools in those days‚ so my intentions for this gathering was to just be a bystander. Several people were in the swimming pool and several people were sitting alongside the pool. Only a few of the toddlers were in the pool with a parent. Children were tossing the ball around
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2 Tips and Benefits of Winter Swimming Swimming is a great way to exercise. In the article‚ “Tips and Benefits of Winter Swimming” it states that winter swimming is referring to swimming outdoors. According to Pointing‚ “Winter Swimming is done outdoors in freshwater‚ and often resembles an ice cold bath”(Pointing‚ 2011). Most people would never think to try this exercise in the winter‚ but it does have benefits too. According to Pointing‚ “Winter swimming is very popular and possesses several
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practice. In this paper I will be showing the benefits of strength training and conditioning and their state today through swimming. We will look at swimming training programs for a front crawl 100m Olympic competitor. Swimming had been practiced as early as 2500 BC in Egypt and later‚ it was practiced in Assyrian‚ Greek‚ and Roman civilizations. Competitive swimming however began in Europe around 1800 with breaststroke being the only known stroke. The trudgen today known as front crawl was
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