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ALL ABOUT
SWIMMING



About swimming

Swimming is one of the safest sports, but despite this, it has huge advantages over other sports. Unlike other sports, swimming doesn't shock our joints and bones so swimming can be done at any age. When we swim, all muscles of our body are put into action, because of this it's the fastest way to lose weight or become slim. But swimming is good not only for that, it's also decrease the risk of Cardiovascular diseases by 41%.
And that's not all.
Swimming is one of the most energy-intensive sports: about 400-600 kilocalories are consumed in water per hour. Efforts, strokes, overcoming water resistance, maintaining body balance in a horizontal position and other movements require great physical effort, work of large muscle groups.
There are 4 swimming styles in total, these are freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.

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Legends of swimming world




The greatest olympic athlete

Michael Phelps - was born in 1985, 30 June, he was swimming since 7 years, at the of 10 he was already the holder of the national record in his age group.
In 2000, when he was 15, he took a part in Olympic Games. He has 23 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze, in total 28 olympic medals - it is an absolute record in history. No one has been able to break this record.

One of the seven women who won 7 gold medals

Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky - she was born in 1997, March 17. Ledecky began swimming at the age of six due to the influence of her older brother and her mother. Having won 7 Olympic gold medals and 15 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer, she is considered one of the greatest female swimmers of all time.



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BMI - What is it?

BMI is a measurement of a person's leanness or corpulence based on their height and weight, and is intended to quantify tissue mass. It is widely used as a general indicator of whether a person has a healthy body weight for their height. Specifically, the value obtained from the calculation of BMI is used to categorize whether a person is underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese depending on what range the value falls between.

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