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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the support of the Romans‚ and he made his 17 year old daughter‚ Cleopatra‚ his co-ruler‚ but in 51 BC the king died and in his will it said that Cleopatra would have to share the throne with her older brother‚ Ptolemy XIII. When Ptolemy XIII heard about this arrangement he became upset and he and his advisors refused to acknowledge it. This caused fighting to break out and Cleopatra was forced to leave the royal palace. Cleopatra soon regained her throne‚ with the help of Caesar‚ but Ptolemy XIII
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assigned a peer tutor during Shepherd University Wellness Center visits. PHYSICAL ABILITIES/DISABILITIES Victoria is able to swim all over the pool without assistance. She has a lot of energy‚ and is capable of moving almost non-stop for the entire swimming session. Retrieving rings in the shallow end of the pool is one of her favorite games. Victoria also enjoys jumping into the pool in the deep end. Victoria’s disabilities are unspecified. From my observations: • Victoria is partially non-verbal
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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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Hummel WHICH IS A BETTER WORKOUT: SWIMMING OR RUNNING? Every exercise has both its fan-boys and not so fan-boys‚ swimming and running being no exception. Most of the disagreements over running and swimming revolve around how the benefits of these exercises are measured. Some choose to measure in terms of calorie burn while others measure by the amount of time it takes to reach a specific goal. I have come to the conclusion that whether or not swimming is better than running‚ or vice versa
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Swimming As a Good Habit I like swimming and I search about it in the Kent library. I have ten-year experience in competitive swimming and twelve years in pleasure swimming. I was born close to a lake where my father practice fishing and while my mother hire yachting facilities. I requested my father to take me with him to fishing expeditions but he refused because I did not know how to swim. At the age of seven‚ my brother trained me how to swim. Since then‚ I have become and swimming enthusiast
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This poses a serious health threat‚ not only to the swim team members and lifeguards but also to the community of Biddeford‚ Maine‚ who participate in outreach swimming programs designed for children and older adults. Their health is greatly affected by the poor filters‚ low ceilings and a build up of byproduct gases observed in the university pool. Within my research I learned that other schools were discovering
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Persuasive Essay Swimming is a fun and beneficial exercise. First of all you won’t even know you are exercising because you will be having so much fun. All you have to do is move your hands and feet‚ and no one really sees swimming as a workout so your wife/husband won’t even think that you’re working out to get into shape. Swimming builds muscle mass‚ muscle strength‚ and flexibility. It also builds cardiovascular fitness‚ and burns a lot of calories. If you just try it you will be satisfied and
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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 Agepaintings from around 7‚000 years ago. Written references date from 2000 BC. Some of the earliest references to swimming include theGilgamesh‚ 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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Basic Swimming Skills From your work toward Second Class rank‚ you know that a rescuer often does not need to enter the water to save someone from drowning. Reaching or throwing rescue devices usually work‚ but sometimes a rescuer must swim a float to an active victim‚ or swim out and tow an unconscious person to safety. Such cases require strong swimming skills. First Class rank requirements start you on your way to becoming a good swimmer‚ but you need additional skills to begin training for the
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