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AQUATICS

Aquatic fitness involves physical activities performed in water that promote health and fitness. The water provides buoyancy, reducing impact on joints while also providing resistance to challenge muscles. This creates a well-balanced workout improving aerobic capacity, strength, flexibility and body composition. Swimming has been a core part of the Summer Olympics since its inception, with four primary strokes - freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. It is considered one of the best total-body exercises.

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AQUATICS

Aquatic fitness involves physical activities performed in water that promote health and fitness. The water provides buoyancy, reducing impact on joints while also providing resistance to challenge muscles. This creates a well-balanced workout improving aerobic capacity, strength, flexibility and body composition. Swimming has been a core part of the Summer Olympics since its inception, with four primary strokes - freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. It is considered one of the best total-body exercises.

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Aquatic Fitness is defined as activities

performed in the water that promote and


enhance physical and mental fitness.
Aquatic Fitness is typically performed in a
vertical position in shallow and/or deep
water. There are numerous applications to
appeal to a wide variety of participants.
The water’s unique properties allow the pool to
provide an environment for people of all abilities.
Buoyancy creates a reduced impact exercise
alternative that is easy on the joints, while the
water’s resistance challenges the muscles. Water
lends itself to a well-balanced workout that
improves all major components of physical fitness
aerobic training, muscular strength and
endurance, flexibility and body composition.
INTRODUCTION
Swimming has featured on the programmed of all the
Summer Olympic Games. In the first half of the 20th
century, only the “freestyle”, “breaststroke” and
“backstroke” styles were present. It was only in 1956
that “butterfly” was introduced. Women’s swimming
made its debut in 1912 and has been on the
programmed ever since. The women’s programmed
now has the same number of events as the men’s
HISTORY OF AQUATICS
Swimming has produced the two biggest multiple winners in
Olympic history. First, Mark Spitz won seven gold medals at the
1972 Games in Munich, a record many said would never be
broken, only for fellow American Michael Phelps to come along
and win eight titles at Beijing in 2008.
The sport has always produced some of the Olympics' most
charismatic figures, including the Australian Dawn Fraser, who won
the 100 meters freestyle for three consecutive Games between
1956 and 1964 only to be banned for 10 years after Tokyo for
climbing a flagpole at Emperor Hirohito's Palace to steal the
Olympic flag for a souvenir.
 Arguably the most famous diver in Olympic history is Greg
Louganis, who at Seoul in 1988 cracked his head on the
springboard while attempting a reverse 2.5 spike. After receiving
stitches, Louganis won gold in both men's events.
 Britain dominated the early water polo tournaments, winning the
gold medal in three of the four first Olympics it was staged. But
the sport is no longer widely popular in Britain, unlike in Hungary,
who have established themselves as the true Olympic masters,
claiming the title on a record nine occasions, including the three
last Games.
The United States, Canada and Japan have
traditionally been the strongest nations in
synchronized swimming, winning every Olympic
medal from 1984 through to 1966, but Russia
has recently become the dominant nation,
claiming every every in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
SWIMMING
Going swimming is one of the best
physical exercises for fitness. It is a good way
of releasing tension of stress. Swimming as a
sport will keep your body fit and trim.
Learning to swim is worth the effort because it
is a must in saving your life and that of others.
Engaging in individual sports like swimming
is advantageous. These are more flexible since
you have control on your time. You can go on
engaging in it as a lifelong activity.
Everyone must know how to swim for water
safety. You need this skill to survive and to save
lives in case of calamities like flood and accidents
in water.
Swimming demands physical endurance.
Here you depend on many muscles such as the
body, arms, and legs. Rhythmic breathing is
required and is developed in swimming which
makes your lungs strong. Engaging in regular
swimming practice burns excess fat.
Do You Know
How to Swim?
Learning to swim starts with learning how to
float. There are four basic types of float-the prone,
back, jellyfish, and turtle float. To be able to float
you need to be relaxed. Hold your breath and lie
relaxed as your chin is close to your chest for the
back float. For prone float, hold your breath, and
lie relaxed on your chest, face down.
Back float (Supine)
Front float (Prone)
Turtle float (Tuck)
Jellyfish float
There are four kinds of kick applied in each
style of swimming. These are:
Flutter kick- This is executed by
swinging both legs alternately from the
hips in a very relaxed manner, without
bending the knees, allowing the feet to flip-
flap. This is most applicable to the freestyle.
 Frog kick- This is usually used
when executing the breaststroke.
From stretched legs position, bend
bot knees, then kick outward, and
pull legs together, ready for the
next kick Dolphin kick- This is the
leg action for the butterfly stroke.
This kick requires great leg power.
With feet and legs together, raise
them from the hips, then flap them
up and down.
Bicycle kick – This
kick will help in
pushing your body up
from deep water. Kick
alternately in
diagonally downward
circular motion as in
pedaling a bicycle.
Four Styles in
Swimming
Freestyle
Back stroke
Breast Stroke
Butterfly Stroke

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