About the sport

Swimming has been studied to find that it is the most healthiest sport you can do because of the great things it does for your body. Like for example it helps stable the metabolism and balances blood pressure and just helps improve general fitness along with many others. Some things people don't realize about the sport is how time consuming it is, for competitive swimming you are expected to practice 5 or 6 day out of the week! But also getting in dry-land practices in by doing things on land like weight lifting and other core and endurance work. Micheal Phelps didn't get that good by practicing twice a week did he? Swimming can also be seen as more of a individual sport because you swim your events on your own and you get your own individual times, unlike in most sports you have to work together to win like in volleyball and basketball. Swimming is almost like track you run and get a time and then you place and get points for your team. Its just like that for swimming. So your swimming for your own individual times and so you can place high to get points for your team to win the meet! If you ever had the idea to go out for swimming you really should its a great way to meet new people and try something new.

This is me and my friend Ceclie at districts! We are wearing a special suit that is called a fast skin and is supposed to help with your speed and make you go faster which sounds weird because it is only a swim suit but the material in the suit help you go across the water faster and smoothly. You see a lot of the big time swimmers wearing these quite often.