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2. Swimming Workouts Can Tone Your Muscles And Are Low-Impact - AOL

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   The number of calories you burn swimming depends on factors like time and intensity. For example, the longer and harder you swim, the more calories you burn.

3. Swimming - Wikipedia

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   Swimming requires endurance, skill, and efficient techniques to maximize speed and minimize energy consumption. [1] Swimming is a popular activity and competitive sport where certain techniques are deployed to move through water. It offers numerous health benefits, such as strengthened cardiovascular health, muscle strength, and increased ...

4. Water aerobics - Wikipedia

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   Water aerobics (waterobics, aquarobics, aquatic fitness, aquafitness, aquafit) is the performance of aerobic exercise in water such as in a swimming pool. It is done mostly vertically and without swimming typically in waist deep or deeper water. Water aerobics is a form of aerobic exercise that requires water-immersed participants.

5. Swimming (sport) - Wikipedia

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   Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, [1] with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual ...

6. How to exercise in a swimming pool — without doing laps

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   Fitness pros share their favorite exercises to do in the swimming pool. (Getty Creative) (bluecinema via Getty Images) Let’s be honest: The last thing you want to do on a hot summer day is go ...

7. Streamline (swimming) - Wikipedia

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   Streamline form is a swimming technique that is used underwater in every stroke. At the start of a race or on a turn, streamline form is used, usually along with a dolphin kick or flutter kick, to create the least amount of resistance to help the swimmer propel as far as they can. Many factors contribute to the perfect streamline form and ...

8. Treading water - Wikipedia

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   The eggbeater kick is an efficient method of treading water. It involves the swimmer in a "sitting position" in the water. The swimmer's back must be straight, knees bent so that the thighs are parallel to the surface of the water, and lower legs perpendicular to the surface.

9. A beginner's guide to Olympic Artistic Swimming

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   The sport was known for a long time as synchronized swimming but the name was changed in 2017 to artistic swimming to give it a wider appeal. The name hasn’t completely caught on yet, and ...