The 5 benefit of why warming up is important

The 5 benefit of why warming up is important

A good warm up before swimming is essential to reduce your chances of injury. With swimming It will using almost all the groups of muscles, and it is essential that you will use efficient movements and maintain a low heart rate so that not to the body fatigue. The following 5 tips will lead you to a right routine to make sure your body before swimming.

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1. Warming up before swimming can helps the body to deliver oxygen to the exercising muscle groups.

2. Warming up before swimming can increases body temperature, which reduces the chance for muscle and tendon injuries.(www.poqswim.com)

3. A 5 minute warm-up before swimming can increases blood flow to the exercising muscles. A greater level of blood reaching the muscles involved in the activity aids in the delivery of the important fuels (e.g., glucose and free fatty acids) required for energy production.

4. Warming up before swimming can increases the suppleness of the muscle, thereby enhancing the mechanical efficiency and power of the exercising muscles.


5. An appropriate warm-up before swimming can prepares the cardiovascular system for the upcoming (more strenuous) physical activity. Warming up not only can helps to ensure that the cardiovascular system (heart and blood vessels) is given time to adjust to the body’s increased demands for blood and oxygen. But also make you not so tired on swimming.(www.poqswim.com)

The right position for swimming

Head position for breathing

Your head is like the bow of a ship – if you roll your head to breathe you create a bow wave and you can breathe into the trough created alongside the head – like in the picture below:

When you are in swimming, Your head just like a small bow of a ship, If you turn your head to breathe and then you will create a bow of wave and you can breathe the air through the alongside of your head has created, Just like the following picture:

When you turn your head to one side in order to breathe, and your hips and legs will change because of the position of head position, and it usually be a lot of lower.

The following are some tips for you to learn how to turn your head and to breathe in the right way.
1. Decrease the demand of your body for the oxygen, Because it takes less energy to roll your head to breathe rather than to lift it up.
2. Reduce the frontal drag through a long and strong body position.
3. Reduced lower body drag as the legs and core won’t be pushed down in order to lift the head up. This can also result in an improved kick technique.
4. Make a better chance in the stroke, through the following tips.
A. not requiring you to roll around so far for each breath and pausing in this high position
B. by reducing the requirement to lift up high to breathe which in return results in a large collapse after each breathing stroke return results in a large collapse after each breathing stroke

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