Monica
My best friends swim and i feel left out when they talk about swim stuff. I know nothing about it. Can somebody please tell me everything about swimming and swim meets? They are on varsity swim team for FDHS. They are in middle school. They swim fast and i want to know what they are talking about when they get back from meets or practice. Please be very descriptive.
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EVERYTHING about swimming and meets and be VERY DESCRIPTIVE? SURE! How about I write a brief history of the world, too?
There are four strokes, butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and crawl (frequently called freestyle or free).
In a meet there are four freestyle races where individuals swim distances of 50, 100, 200 or 500 yards (in a high school pool in the US they swim in a pool that is 25 yards long. It is called a SHORT COURSE YARDS pool or abbreviated SCY). There are also two freestyle relays, one is 4 x 50 (200 yds) and the other is 4 x 100.
There are also races (varsity) that are of each stroke and are 100 yds each. There is a 100 yd butterfly (or fly for short), 100 back and 100 breast. There is another race called an INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY (IM) ... a medley is everything put together. So, in a 200 yd IM the swimmer swim 50yds of fly, 50 of back, 50 of breast and 50 of free. Finally, at the beginning of the meet, there is a 4 x 50 MEDLEY RELAY. The first swimmer swims 50 back, the next swims 50 breast, the next 50 fly and the last swims a 50 free.
In the Olympics, they swim in a 50 meter pool which is also called a LONG COURSE METERS (or LCM) pool. Besides the events, in meters, I described above, they also swim 200m of each stroke (fly, back, and breast), and a 400m IM and a 4 x 100 medley relay. There is also a 1500m swim.
In college, they swim SCY and swim all of the same events (100's and 200's of strokes, 200/400 IM), but instead of the 1500 they swim a 1650 yd swim (66 lengths of a high school/college pool).
To prepare for the races, really good high school swimmers will practice before and after school and, likely on Saturday mornings. They will swim somewhere around 8500 yards (340 lengths) per day. Beginning swimmers on a high school team should start the season swimming only about 30 to 40 lengths (750 to 1000 yards) per day and work up to where they are swimming 3000 (120) to 4000 (160) lengths per day in one practice.
It is, however, not must a matter of jumping in the water and swimming. There is a great deal of technique involved.
At the end of the season, two to three weeks prior to the championship meet, the swimmers go through what is called a taper period. During that period, the conditioning they developed over the season is relied upon to carry them through the BIG meet. They also work more and more on speed drills while they cut down on the distance they swim each day. Swimmers who have had a good season of preparation respond dramatically to the taper and typically drop 3% off their best time prior to the taper and swim their best times at the championships. To have a good taper, a swimmer needs a minimum of 3 months of hard training during which they will have swum a minimum of 250 miles.
I decided to NOT write that history of the world as the best book on swimming is 850 pages long and I'm running out of space here.
EVERYTHING about swimming and meets and be VERY DESCRIPTIVE? SURE! How about I write a brief history of the world, too?
There are four strokes, butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and crawl (frequently called freestyle or free).
In a meet there are four freestyle races where individuals swim distances of 50, 100, 200 or 500 yards (in a high school pool in the US they swim in a pool that is 25 yards long. It is called a SHORT COURSE YARDS pool or abbreviated SCY). There are also two freestyle relays, one is 4 x 50 (200 yds) and the other is 4 x 100.
There are also races (varsity) that are of each stroke and are 100 yds each. There is a 100 yd butterfly (or fly for short), 100 back and 100 breast. There is another race called an INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY (IM) ... a medley is everything put together. So, in a 200 yd IM the swimmer swim 50yds of fly, 50 of back, 50 of breast and 50 of free. Finally, at the beginning of the meet, there is a 4 x 50 MEDLEY RELAY. The first swimmer swims 50 back, the next swims 50 breast, the next 50 fly and the last swims a 50 free.
In the Olympics, they swim in a 50 meter pool which is also called a LONG COURSE METERS (or LCM) pool. Besides the events, in meters, I described above, they also swim 200m of each stroke (fly, back, and breast), and a 400m IM and a 4 x 100 medley relay. There is also a 1500m swim.
In college, they swim SCY and swim all of the same events (100's and 200's of strokes, 200/400 IM), but instead of the 1500 they swim a 1650 yd swim (66 lengths of a high school/college pool).
To prepare for the races, really good high school swimmers will practice before and after school and, likely on Saturday mornings. They will swim somewhere around 8500 yards (340 lengths) per day. Beginning swimmers on a high school team should start the season swimming only about 30 to 40 lengths (750 to 1000 yards) per day and work up to where they are swimming 3000 (120) to 4000 (160) lengths per day in one practice.
It is, however, not must a matter of jumping in the water and swimming. There is a great deal of technique involved.
At the end of the season, two to three weeks prior to the championship meet, the swimmers go through what is called a taper period. During that period, the conditioning they developed over the season is relied upon to carry them through the BIG meet. They also work more and more on speed drills while they cut down on the distance they swim each day. Swimmers who have had a good season of preparation respond dramatically to the taper and typically drop 3% off their best time prior to the taper and swim their best times at the championships. To have a good taper, a swimmer needs a minimum of 3 months of hard training during which they will have swum a minimum of 250 miles.
I decided to NOT write that history of the world as the best book on swimming is 850 pages long and I'm running out of space here.
swimming benefits?
leaf07
What are the physical benefits to swimming regularly?
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Swimming is the 3rd most cardiovascular activity. An average swimmer sweats more in a practice than a football player. That's a fact to shut 'em up! It's also kind of gross when you think about how the pool you're swimming in has possibly 4 other high school swim team's sweat in it, plus free swim, plus classes...yum.
Contrary to what you might think, swimming is also great for people with breathing troubles, like athsma because it teaches breath control. It's also easy on the joints for people who've been injured or for the older crowd.
Plus, you can't go wrong getting into swimming because unlike a number of other sports, knowing how to swim can be a lifesaver-yours or somebody else's.
The reason swimming doesn't promote weight loss is because since you're in the water, you don't notice whether or not you're sweating (unless it's a super hard core practice). You don't get hot really, because as said above in another answer, the water keeps you cool. That's why swimmers get out of practice tired - but HUNGRY. Michael Phelps had an entire article written on what he eats for breakfast. I know after practice sometimes, I feel like I could eat the world and still be hungry. It's crazy.
Swimming is the 3rd most cardiovascular activity. An average swimmer sweats more in a practice than a football player. That's a fact to shut 'em up! It's also kind of gross when you think about how the pool you're swimming in has possibly 4 other high school swim team's sweat in it, plus free swim, plus classes...yum.
Contrary to what you might think, swimming is also great for people with breathing troubles, like athsma because it teaches breath control. It's also easy on the joints for people who've been injured or for the older crowd.
Plus, you can't go wrong getting into swimming because unlike a number of other sports, knowing how to swim can be a lifesaver-yours or somebody else's.
The reason swimming doesn't promote weight loss is because since you're in the water, you don't notice whether or not you're sweating (unless it's a super hard core practice). You don't get hot really, because as said above in another answer, the water keeps you cool. That's why swimmers get out of practice tired - but HUNGRY. Michael Phelps had an entire article written on what he eats for breakfast. I know after practice sometimes, I feel like I could eat the world and still be hungry. It's crazy.
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