Swimming is a particular sport, because you can practice
throughout your life, using different approaches and becoming a specialist of
all swimming styles .
But what is swimming ? According to some authors like
Arellano, Iguarán or Counsilman, they define the term swimming in the following
way:
• When
talking about swimming , we are referring to a sport that can be practiced by
babies from a few months of age to people of 70 or 80 years old.
"The ability that allows the human being to move in the
water , thanks to the propulsive action performed by the rhythmic, repetitive
and coordinated movements of the upper and lower limbs and the body, which will
allow him to stay on the surface and overcome the resistance offers the water
to move in it ".
The practice of a sport such as swimming is based especially
on technique and secondarily on the training of speed and endurance. This
situation is due to the fact that, unlike other sports, the human organism was
not designed to swim, since this action involves movements, not natural and not
very intuitive. Swimming guy
