Swimming Lesson – A Beneficial Recreation

Posted on May 1, 2012

There are many adventures in life that are part of recreation. Swimming is one of them. It may help us in many ways like saving life of others. But its time of learning is never early and it won’t be late ever.

What would the best age for a child to start learn how to swim? The best age for a child to start learning swimming is his early childhood life. It all depends on parents whether they allow their children to stay in touch with water so that they may have love for it for their whole lives. That is a perfect exercise for a child to increase his muscle strength and make them strong enough so that any limitation in the growth of a child during his learning process might overcome.

Swimming Pools in New Zealand

Posted on April 28, 2012

In New Zealand there are round about 58,000 privately owned swimming pools. The law requires pools to be fenced off. Before 1987 toddler drownings were more common than today.

However 71 toddlers were still drowned as late as 2003 mostly in pools that were not fenced properly. These tragedies could have been easily avoided.Negligence in most of these cases was to blame.Swimming pools should be happy places.Young children are drawn to the water.

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Some countries allow a special net to be fixed over the pool instead of a more costly fence.

Local councils now monitor swimming pools in their regions; the pool owner has the obligation of making sure all the criteria are met to comply with the strict guide lines that have been set out. One of them is a minimum height of 1.2 metres.

Pros and Cons of Salt Water Swimming Pools

Posted on April 5, 2012

An increased number of new residential swimming pools and many existing pools are being installed with, or being converted to use, salt chlorine generators. These salt chlorine systems combine salt water and electricity to create the chlorine required for proper sanitation. As the percentage of pools with these systems increase, the pros and cons of salt water swimming pools is becoming clearer.

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Softer Water – a majority of salt pool owners report that water chlorinated with a salt chlorinator is much easier on the body. Swimmers say they experience less skin and eye irritation as compared with traditional chlorine.

Buy Less Chlorine – since a salt chlorine generator will be producing chlorine most of the year, chlorine expenses will be reduced by up to 90 percent.

Sub-Contracting or Building Your Own Swimming Pool – The Pros and Cons

Posted on March 26, 2012

You may have decided that it has come to that time in your life when you would like to have your own swimming pool. You may have begun to look around at above ground pools, but you are not thinking of moving house anytime soon so you think an in-ground pool would be a better idea.

This is to a large extent very true, an in-ground pool can also be a good long-term investment adding value to your property.

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But then you go out and get a few quotes from contractors and realize that maybe it is slightly beyond what you can afford.

How to Repair Swimming Hair Damage

Posted on February 26, 2012

Chlorine and Your Hair

Imagine your hair as a sponge absorbing water. Before you get in the pool, wet your hair with fresh water. With non-chlorinated water on board, your hair won’t be able to soak-up as much chlorine while you swim. And always rinse your hair with clean water after swimming; chlorine in pools not only dries-out your hair, but will fade the colour too.

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Chlorine in swimming pools can cause sebum – oil that lubricates your hair shaft – to start building up in your hair follicles. As time passes follicles can become blocked, creating further hair damage. After Swimming use a good ‘clarifying’ shampoo. The main ingredient to look for is EDTA (Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetic Acid). It’s like a chemical claw, removing chlorine from your hair.

Pool Length Differences in Triathlon Swimming

Posted on January 28, 2012

The length of the pool you swim in has many different effects on how your systems are stressed and how fast you go. This article is contains a detailed commentary describing the differences, and concludes with suggestions on how to incorporate knowledge of pool length to optimize a triathlete’s training plan.

Pool lengths typically come in three distances. There is the 25yard pool (common in the United States), the 25meter pool (common just about everywhere else in the world), and the 50 meter or Olympic-size pool (relatively uncommon just about everywhere as olympic size pools are costly to build and maintain). The swimming world uses abbreviations for these distances: SCY stands for “Short Course Yards”, while “SCM” stands for “Short Course Meters”. Likewise, “LCM” stands for “Long Course Meters”.

Swimming Pools – Above Ground Vs In Ground

Posted on January 10, 2012

If you are considering installing a swimming pool in your backyard, you may be trying to decide between putting in an above ground pool or splurging for an in ground one. There are benefits and disadvantages to both types of pools, so in order to make your decision a little easier, here is a rundown of some of the differences between them:

Space — If you are limited on space then an above ground pool is usually a better option than an in ground one. Even if you select a small in ground pool, you need considerably more space than a pool that is above ground. Above ground swimming pools can be very small or rather large to accommodate any size yard you have and there are some that are portable and inflatable so you can use them only when you want them and you don’t have to live with a pool in your backyard all the time.

Toning Your Upper Body With Swimming

Posted on January 3, 2012

Your upper body is comprised of different muscles, which is why every time you go for a swim these are put into good use. Among the different swimming techniques freestyle swimming, also known as crawl, is the most popular swimming technique because it is the most efficient, the fastest, and makes use of the upper body muscles more, namely the shoulder muscles, triceps, biceps, chest muscles, deltoids, trapezius, quadriceps, gluteus muscles, respiratory muscles, latissimus dorsi, and hip flexors.

When doing the freestyle, you must traverse the water with the head and the chest pointing downward towards the bottom of the pool. Use a flutterkick (continuous and quick upward and downward movement of the legs) to propel yourself across the water.

Swimming Pool Decks Can Make Any Pool a Treasure

Posted on December 22, 2011

If you want to make your pool look a thousand times better, swimming pool decks can do the trick. It can be concrete or wood decking or vinyl even; installing a swimming pool deck can protect your back yard from turning into a mud bog and protect your guests from slipping in wet grass. It also transforms your yard into something quite extraordinary. Depending on the type of pool you have, whether it’s in ground or above ground, your deck can be simple to very extravagant, small or extend from your backdoor to half way around your yard. It’s up to you and your budget.

Swimming – How to Swim Freestyle

Posted on December 16, 2011

Freestyle is the most popular of swimming strokes. What most beginners do not realize is that they should relax the arm during the recovery. The swimmer must move the hand quite high and far away from the body.

You can take the hand higher than the elbow. What happens is that in this way the effort of the muscle as well as the drag is considerably increased as the speed increases. Learn how to use your shoulders so that it allows the hand to stretch forward as far as possible.

Different people have different opinion about how the hand should enter the water. Some experts feel that the hand must enter the water with the thumb first. This helps to reduce the drag as there is possible turbulence.