What are the characteristics of swimming?

Summer is here, and swimming is the most common form of exercise. It has become a very popular sport because you don't have to be exposed to the sun or sweat a lot. Many people like to practice swimming, wearing sexy swimsuits and showing off their beautiful bodies, which is pleasing to everyone. When swimming, as long as you know the characteristics of swimming and grasp the rules, everything will be simple. So what are the characteristics of swimming? Don’t worry, let me give you a good answer.

Swimming is divided into butterfly stroke, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. Beginners usually start with freestyle or breaststroke. Here are the key points of the movements.

Freestyle

Body position: Keep your body as straight as possible, with your legs just above the water for kicking.

Arm movements: enter the water, stretch, hold the water and paddle inwards, paddle upwards, and move the arms.

Kick: Keep your legs together, do not bend your knees too much, and kick downward. Breathing: Turn your head toward your shoulders when it comes out of the water to breathe. There are light breathing and deep breathing.

Rhythm: Kick 6 times, stroke 1 time with each arm.

Backstroke

Body posture: ears are just placed in the water, hips are just below the water surface, feet are just above the water surface, and head is kept stable.

Arm movements: entering the water, holding the water, paddling downwards, paddling backwards, second paddling, resetting, and moving the arms.

Kicking: Bring your legs together and kick alternately up and down. Your knees can be bent but should not be out of the water.

Breathing: Exhale when one arm moves, and breathe in when the other moves.

Rhythm: 1 arm row, 6 kicks.

Butterfly stroke

Body position: Shoulders must be kept on a horizontal plane, hips close to the water surface, head enters the water before arms, and head is kept low.

Arm movements: entry, outward stroke and hold, downstroke, instroke, upstroke and recovery.

Kick: Start with your knees unbent and your legs together. Once your heels are out of the water, kick downward.

Breathing: Start breathing on the upstroke.

Rhythm: 1 arm stroke, 2 leg kicks.

breaststroke

Body posture: Keep your head and hips as high as possible, with your body based on your chest.

Arm movements: pull outwards, hold water, pull downwards, stretch.

Kicking: stretch, retract legs, push legs outward, push legs downward, push legs inward and clamp legs.

Breathing: Breathe as your arms make the powerful inward stroke.

Rhythm: Make sure the kick is completed with the arms extended.

After the editor’s explanation of the characteristics of swimming, everyone will be able to master the correct way to swim. The editor would like to remind you that when you come ashore after swimming, you must wipe off the water droplets on your body. Otherwise, if the water is allowed to dry naturally, it will absorb the original heat of your body, making it easier to catch a cold. So you must take special care of your body while playing.