What is one lap in swimming? Down just once, or down and back up?
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A Lap is down and back (50 yards) in 25 yard pool.  A Length is down (25 yards) in a 25 yard pool.\n\nI've been told that in a 50 meter pool a Lap is one length, but i don't like that answer.
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slap the thigh and ride the wave in! Watch ou for the lower back, it can hurt your back.
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well i guess that depends on what kind of swimming and walking you are talking about.  If you mean just a stroll and just light swimming, I would say swimming if not then I would say walking.
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the basic of swimming is that u must breath in i.e fill ur stomach with air then streach ur legs nd hands nd start flapping them like a bird(only legs) nd as far as ur hands r concerned move them in the backward direcion like dis(ur hands->,<)\n\n 1 <(position of ur hands in the forward direction)   then             2 >(backward direction)
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The most common misconception of swimming is that you float on the water. The truth is you don't float above water but underwater. Most of your body is underwater. While swimming you are not trying to float but trying to keep your body level and more hydrodynamic in the water. Of course you are not trying to swim 3 feet underwater but most people will be buoyant enough in the water to stay near the surface, where you would like to be.\n\nThe key to staying buoyant is to relax. If you look at the physical make up of your body, the upper torso is the most buoyant part of your body because of your lungs. Your feet and legs are the most dense and will sink. Let them sink. Be aware of where your legs are floating. Whether on your front or back, by extending your arms above your head you are moving the center of your density higher. This should cause your legs to raise up a little bit more. When you are swimming keep your body stretched out and this will help to keep your body level or more hydrodynamic. The kick will also help to keep your body level.\n\nTo explore your own buoyancy try and sink. Most people will realize that its much harder to sink to the bottom than it is to stay buoyant.
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Swimming is a great way to tone up, however, it's not a great weight loss activity.  If you want to really start burning calories, I would recommend running or aerobics 5 times a week for over 20 minutes.  When you are doing aerobic activity (no stop and go; continuous) you are burning carbohydrates for the first 12 minutes.  After that time you start burning calories.  I used to be a swimmer, and I would like to get back to it.  I really applaud you for 3 times a week for an hour.
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The lanes at the edge of the pool are usually the slower lanes. As you move towards the center, the lanes get faster. When you swim, stay to the right of the lane. Don't block the walls, because then other swimmers will have to work around you when they're turning. (Or they'll just turn on top of you, and that's no fun for anyone.) If you have to rest it's best to get out of the pool, or just stay out of the other swimmers' ways. Try to schedule your workouts at off-peak times (like during the middle of the day if possible, or after 8 pm.) That way, there probably won't be as many people in the pool and you can have a lane to yourself and you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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Well on the varsity swim team, in a two hour practice we swim round 6000-7000 yards in 2 hours.\nSets will vary, but usually we will do a long set (consisting of 1000 yards, etc. 10x100 on let's say...1:30. \nThen we'll do a shorter set, say 8x75's on 1:30.\nThen a long one, 3x500 on...7 min.\nThen @ the end of practice (last 15 minutes or so) we might play a fierce game of water polo!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don't know about all the changes over the last 30 years, but I do know a few more recent ones.  With back they are allowing flip turns now.  With breast, they allow one dolphin kick during your pull out, you're head can now be completely submerged during the stroke, and when you do your turn you are now allowed to have your hands on different plains as long as they touch at the same time.
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30 min run is the better option.\nBut if you know swimming it is much better.
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you can go until you hit water
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Swimming is a build up sport.\nstart off slow say 20 laps(without stopping)\ndo that for a week.\nNext week try 25 or 30. \nJust keep building it up.\nYou will eventually be fit enough to swim a few kms if you want.
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Swimming, alone, is a very strenuous workout.  You need to give your arms more time to recouperate.
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When it comes to competetive swimming, freestyle simply means that there are few rules that govern how the stroke is judged.\n\nFreestyle swimming competitions can be any of the unregulated strokes such as front crawl, dog paddle, or sidestroke. Individual freestyle competitions can also be swum in one of the officially regulated strokes (breaststroke, butterfly, and backstroke). The freestyle part of medley competitions, however, cannot use breaststroke, butterfly, or backstroke. Most competitive swimmers will choose to swim front crawl during freestyle competitions, as this style provides the fastest speed. Freestyle competitions have also been swum completely and partially in other styles, especially at lower ranking competitions. During the Olympic Games, front crawl is swum almost exclusively during freestyle.\n\nSpecific rules as defined by FINA:\n\n- Freestyle means that in an event so designated the swimmer may swim any style, except that in individual medley or medley relay events, freestyle means any style other than backstroke, breaststroke or butterfly. \n\n- Some part of the swimmer must touch the wall upon completion of each length and at the finish. \n\n- Some part of the swimmer must break the surface of the water throughout the race, except it shall be permissible for the swimmer to be completely submerged during the turn and for a distance of not more than 15 meters after the start and each turn. By that point the head must have broken the surface.
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This is dependent on your metabolism and effort but for someone 130lb. swimming laps you burn about 590 calories per hour. So about 43 min I believe.
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A ha! a trick question!\n\nThe answer should be swim but its backwards!\n\nSo the answer is "miws"
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I recommend you start learning while wearing fins.  It's a lot easier to get your timing correct if you have a powerful kick.  \n\nI always start teaching the body undulation.  Butterfly is not flat, your body . . . ripples from fingers to toes as you swim.\n\n1.  With fins, do 12x25m dolphin kick just under the surface of the water.  Hands out in front and time it as follows:\nKick once and press your chest down and forward in the water.  This will cause your torso to go down and your hips to come up.  Now kick again and arch your back, pointing your hands and face up at the surface of the water.  This will make your torso go up and your hips go down.  This "kick your body down, kick your body up" is one cycle of butterfly stroke.  At this point, you should look for the path of least resistance in the water.  It should all be easy and smooth and once cycle should take 3-4 seconds, not too fast.\n\nNow the pull.  With your hands out in front, shoulder width apart, press your hands down toward your waist (it's alright if they widen a little as they go down).  When your hands pass your shoulders on their way down, start bringing them in towards each other.  By the time your hands pass your belly button, the inside edges of your index fingers should touch.  Then, as your hands go toward your waist, push them out HARD so that by the time your arms are fully extended, your hands are brushing the outside of your hips.  That is butterfly pull (sounds complicated, but it's not so bad).\n\n2.  Still with fins, push of the wall, hands in front.  Start your pull as you KICK your head down.  Pull all the way down past your hips and glide as long as you can (you should be slightly underwater).  DON'T recover your arms.  Just do this one pull off the wall 20 times.  You want to get the feeling of combining a strong pull and a strong KICK to drive your head/torso slightly down and a lot FORWARD.  This drill should make you feel very strong.  \n\n2a.  When you have mastered (2), do this:  As you start your pull, pull your head out of the water and take a breath.  Your head should be out of the water as your hands are passing your shoulders.  Take your breath quickly, then turn your face to the bottom of the pool and drive your head/torso down and FORWARD.  Finish the pull and glide like in (2).  Do this 20 times.\n\n3.  Now we add the arm recovery and second kick.  Push off the wall and do the drill described above.  As your hands pass your belly button, KICK and point your face toward the surface.   Your body will rise as your hands push out to your hips (this is the time to breathe if you need it).  Now point your face towards the bottom of the pool and drive down and FORWARD.  The instant that you drive your body down  is when you bring your hands over the water back out in front of you and start the cycle over again.\n\nThe difficult thing about butterfly is timing.  Your kicks happen at about the beginning and 2/3 point of your pull, so you have to think about them both at the same time.  If you wait until your pull is done before you do your 2nd kick, butterfly will be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard.  \n\nThe other thing is to remember the 2 B4's: your head goes in the water BEFORE your hands, and comes out of the water BEFORE your hands.  \n\nGood luck, and remember to KICK.