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Swimming for the soul, body and mind. November 21st, 2009
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Different types of water activities
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Inside this issue: Different types of water activities
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What’s makes water aerobics a great way to exercise
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Treatment of arthritis
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How swimming affects sleeping pattern, organization and fitness
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Treatment of high blood pressure
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How many calories you really burned.
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Bibliography
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There are many types of water activities to choose from. Whether you are just trying to stay active and stay in shape, rehab an injury, or to make new friends and have fun doing it. There’s an aquatic activity for everyone! For the challenge and endurance seeking people there is competitive swimming. Competitive swimming tests your endurance and gives the swimmer a great cardio workout. There are 4 different types of strokes, but-
do athletes who compete on terfly, backstroke, dry land.” (2) breastroke and freeFor the easy style. Each stroke regoing people, there is quires a different musrecreational swimcle group. ming; this As stated swimming in the Haris a more vard health laid back journal, version of competicompetitive swimtive swimmers, train ming. The Alain Bernard Swimming the arm, main focus freestyle in the 2008 Olymleg, back pics would be and abtechnique dominal and amount of laps muscles as well as swum. The recrea“cushioning the joints, tional swimmer would water greatly reduces the likelihood of athletic injury; not have to have an competitive swimmers suffer interval that they far fewer sports injuries than
Water aerobics would swim on they could swim at their own pace, moderating their speed. This is a great way to stay in shape and stay active. In a study, “which tallied up the deaths that occurred among 40,000 men
between the ages of 20 and 90 over a 13-year period, swimmers came out on top (only 2% of them died) compared with runners (8%), walkers (9%), and people who didn’t exercise (11%).” (2)
For the people who have injuries, certain disabilities, or
just don’t like the fact that they have to put their head in the water, there is an activity called water aerobics. This activity does not require being fully submerged in the wa-