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Swimming in Zaton
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Swimming is a popular recreational activity here and a competitive sport. There are many health benefits of swimming, but it also entails risks if basic precautions are not taken.
The most common reason for swimming is probably recreation, where the swimmer enters the water merely for enjoyment. Swimming is a good way to relax. Many swimming styles are suitable for recreational swimming.
Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. In 1908, the world swimming association Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) was formed. Butterfly was first a variant of Breaststroke, until it was accepted as a separate style
in 1952. Croatia also has Swimming association.
Swimming stiles:
- Freestyle - refers to "any style", and in competitive swimming places no restrictions on what action the competitors use, except during the freestyle portion of medley swimming. In practice, almost all freestyle events are swum using front crawl.
- Butterfly - events require that the swimmer's actions retain bilateral symmetry (the left side of the body has to do the same as the right). It is commonly considered the most physically challenging of the strokes.
- Breaststroke - from which the butterfly stroke evolved, places the additional restrictions that the swimmer's hands must be pushed forward together from the breast and that the elbows must remain under the water.
- Backstroke - places no symmetry restrictions, but swimmers must lie on their back at all times except during turns to perform the stroke. Backstroke is performed, in essence, as an
inversion of the crawl.
Swimming is a good form of exercise. Because the density of the human body is approximately similar to that of water, the body is supported by the water and less stress is therefore placed on joints and bones. Furthermore, the resistance against movement depends heavily on the speed of the movement, allowing the fine tuning of the exercise according to one's ability. |
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