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September 5, 2010 at 6:40 pm | Posted in Front Page Buttons | 19 CommentsTags: 247swim, advice, backstroke, birthday, breaststroke, butterfly, Diving games, dolfin, facts, freestyle, frontcrawl, fun, goggles, help, Inspiration, speedo, stroke, swimmer, swimming, swimshop, training, uglies, zoggs
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Interesting Facts to do with Swimming
January 31, 2010 at 12:04 pm | Posted in Mysterys and myths, Swimming Facts | 18 CommentsTags: 247swim, armadillo, benjamin franklin, earths surface, elephants, facts, flippers, good, hotels, interestiong, inveted, kangaroos, las vegas, ocean, pools, spit, swim fins, swimmers, swimming, underwater
Elephants are capable of swimming twenty miles a day, using their trunks as natural snorkles. Elephants have been seen for miles swimming off the Indian Ocean. They are very good swimmers.
Kangaroos are great swimmers.
Benjamin Franklin invented swim-fins.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
Some hotels in Las Vegas have gambling tables floating in their swimming pools.
An armadillo can walk under water.
There are 328,000,000 cubic miles of seawater on earth, covering approximately 71% of the earth’s surface.
Swimming Stuff you wanna know
January 2, 2010 at 10:01 am | Posted in Swimming Facts, Swimming Secrets, Swimming Tips | Leave a commentTags: 1940, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, competitive, facts, freestyle, games, interesting, johnny, know, paris, swimming, tarzandid, underwater, water, weissmuller, you
Now that is interesting…….
Swimming has been in the Olympics since 1896. The strokes were freestyle and breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904.
1940’s was when breaststroker’s found out that you can be faster if you bring both arms over the top of the water together. This was then banned, but because the butterfly stroke, which is now the 4th swimming stroke used in competitions.
Stuff you need to know about competitive swimming:
- Tumble turns: a forward roll, allowing the swimmer to push of the wall (end of the pool) and go to do another length. You cannot do tumble turns in an IM (If you do a backwards tumble from back to breast, then this does not count), breaststroke and butterfly.
- Diving: For breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle you dive from the blocks. Only for backstroke you dive by holding the handles on the block, starting already in the water.
- Negative split: A race strategy, where a swimmer swims the second half of the race faster than the first half.
- The flags: Used when doing backstroke. When you see the flags you count how many arm strokes it is until you touch the wall, minus one arm stroke, and this allows you to tumble turn. The flags also indicate how far away from the wall, it is normally 5m. The flags are 5m from each end of the pool, two on each end.
Did you know?
Underwater Swimming first came about in the Paris 1900 Games. Competitors earned points for the length of time and distance they were underwater.
Johnny Weissmuller, the first man to swim 100 metres in under a minute, was just as famous out of the pool. He helped save the lives of 11 people when a boat capsized on Lake Michigan, and also played the role of Tarzan in films.
Thanks, Hollyxxx
Swimming workout
January 1, 2010 at 9:00 pm | Posted in Fitness and swimming, Swimming Tips | 2 CommentsTags: athletes, cool, facts, help, injuries, safe, sports, strokes, swimming
Many doctors and athletes agree that swimming is one of the best workouts you can give your body. Swimming works almost all of your major muscle groups at the same time. Because you are not in contact with any hard surfaces (like when you do gymnastics) there’s less pressure on your joints and bones. This reduces the chances of you suffering certain kinds of injuries than with other sports.
Here are some swimming facts:
1. In swimming the reason why you don’t sweat or get hot and stick is because the water lowers you body tempreture.
2. Swimming is a skill that could save your life or help you save someone else’s life in an emergency.
3. Swimming regularly can help build muscle mass and reduce body fat.
4. In swimming, you can choose to specialize in a certain kind of stroke (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly or Individual medley (a mixture of all strokes).
5. If you are not good at pulling or kicking a kickboard, hand paddles, pull buoy, or flippers can help you to improve.
6. Swimming goggles protect your eyes from the chlorine in the water. They also help you to see underwater more clearly. To cause less chance of them leaking they must not be too tight, but not too loose either.
Thanks, Hollyxxx
Famous Swimmer’s birthday and facts:
January 1, 2010 at 6:53 pm | Posted in Famous Swimmers, Swimming Facts | Leave a commentTags: adlington, age, athletes, bill, biondi, birthday, data, details, facts, famous, foster, furniss, height, ian, james, johnny, mark, matthew, medals, micheal, nicholas, nickname, olympics, phelps, profile, rebecca, records, spitz, stroke, swimming, thorpe, weight, weissmuller, world
Michael Phelps- June 30th 1985- age: 24- his height is 6 foot 4 inches and he weights 91 kg—– He won 8 gold medals at the Beijing olympics!!
Mark Foster- 12th may 1970- age: 39- his height is 6 foot 6 iches and his weight is 90 kg —— His best strokes are butterfly and freestyle!!
Mark Spitz- 10th February 1950- age: 59- His height is 6 foot——— His nickname is Mark the shark!!!!!
Matthew Nicholas Biondi- 8th October 1965- age: 44- height is 6 foot 6.5 inches———— He got 11 medals at the olympics!!
Johnny Weissmuller- 2nd June 1904- Age: he died at the age of 80- he broke 67 world records!!
Ian James Thorpe- 13th October 1982- Age: 27- his height is 6 foot 5 inches———– He was born in Autralia!!
Rebecca Adlington-17th february 1989- age:20- Her height is: 5 foot 10.5 inches- Her weight is: 70 kg———– her trainng coach is Bill Furniss!!
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