What is, how it starts and how is competitive swimming?

Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through the water. The sport takes place in pools or open water. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take part in either a freestyle or medley relay. A medley relay consists of four swimmers who will each swim a different stroke, ordered as backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle. Swimming each stroke requires a set of specific techniques; in competition, there are distinct regulations according to the hardness. Here are also regulations on what types of swimsuits, caps and injury tape that are allowed at competitions. Although competitive swimmers can get many injuries from the sport, as tendinitis in the shoulders or knees, there are also multiple health benefits associated with the sport, like good heart health, flexibility, and aerobic resistance.

Swimming emerged as a competitive recreational activity in the 1830s in England. In 1828, the first indoor swimming pool, St George's Baths was opened to the public. By 1837, the National Swimming Society was holding regular swimming competitions in six artificial swimming pools, built around London. The recreational activity grew in popularity and by 1880, when the first national governing body, the Amateur Swimming Association was formed, there were already over 300 regional clubs in operation across the country. Since this time, swimming has become famous and get one of the most popular sports in the world. This is presented in the Olympic Games and world games.

Competitive swimming became popular in the 19th century. With the idea to break personal or world records. However, some professional swimmers who do not hold a national or world ranking are considered the best regarding their technical skills. Generally, an athlete goes through a cycle of training in which the body is developed with work in the beginning and middle segments of the cycle, and then the work is decreased in the final stage as the swimmer is near to a competition. The practice of reducing exercise in the days just before an important competition is called tapering. Tapering is used to give the swimmer's body some rest without stopping exercise completely. There are two types of competition in swimming, the open water and competition in short or large pool, it can be in the Olympic Games or long or short pool tournaments.

In conclusion, go swimming, you will get many benefits and you can get into the awesome world of competitive swimming. We recommend you, reader, to start practicing, you will enjoy it!

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