What are the Different Swimming Positions?

Everyone knows that swimming is very beneficial to people's health, and many people are now very enthusiastic about swimming. Therefore, in such a situation, everyone is relatively well-researched about swimming. Many people find their favorite postures when swimming in school, but they are not very familiar with the specific postures that can be divided. The following is an introduction to the various swimming postures.

Freestyle swimming. One of the swimming projects. It was listed as an official competition project since the 1st Olympic Games in 1896. Freestyle is not restricted to any posture, and crawl is the only posture of freestyle. The crawl action is like crawling, that is, alternating arms and alternating legs to slap the water. This posture is reasonable in structure, with small resistance, uniform speed, and is currently the fastest and most energy-saving swimming posture.

The basic technical characteristics of freestyle are: the human body is prone in the water, the head and shoulders are slightly above the water surface, when advancing, the trunk rolls appropriately to the left and right along the body's vertical axis, the arms alternate to push the body forward, the hand enters the water and swims in an S-shaped route, and the breathing is coordinated with the swimming action. When the arm force swims, the use of the wave formed by the water flow on both sides of the head is used to inhale.

Butterfly swimming. Butterfly swimming is an ancient swimming style. According to records, similar swimming styles existed in China, Rome, and ancient Egypt as early as 2000-4000 years ago. On August 24, 1875, famous swimmer M. Webb crossed the English Channel in a butterfly posture, which took 21 hours and 45 minutes. In the early 19th century, butterfly swimming was the first swimming style adopted in swimming competitions. However, due to the slow speed of butterfly swimming, it was successively replaced by side swimming, crawl, and fewer people adopted butterfly swimming until the 3rd Olympic Games in 1904, when butterfly swimming was separated from other postures.

Backstroke swimming. One of the swimming projects. Backstroke was listed as an official competition project since the 2nd Olympic Games in 1900. Backstroke includes reverse butterfly and prone backstroke. Reverse butterfly is the earliest appearance of backstroke, its action is similar to butterfly, and the body posture is opposite. That is, the human body is prone on the water surface, the arms extend from the back of the head to the side of the body, and swim. In the early Olympic Games, the backstroke competition adopted reverse butterfly posture. Backstroke is almost prone on the water surface, the chest is naturally stretched and in line with the abdomen, the head is submerged in the water, and the face is exposed to the water surface. When advancing, the head always maintains a straight posture, and the trunk rotates naturally along the vertical axis due to the alternating arm swimming action.

Swimming has several swimming postures? Different postures in swimming bring different exercise effects to people's bodies, because everyone knows that in swimming, it can play a role in exercising people's bodies in various parts, so if you want to exercise healthily, swimming is a very good choice.

Copyright statement: Picture and text are independent, the purpose of this article is to pass more information. If there is an error in the source annotation or infringes on your legitimate rights, please contact the author with the ownership proof, and we will promptly correct and delete, thank you.