Swimming and Sports specific exercise

Whether a competing swimmer or you just swim for fitness, you may have been advised to do exercises designed for your sport. Sports definite training is currently very popular. You may have seen movements that claim to be a swimming exercise. But if it is not an practice you do in the water, beware! You may be wasting your time. Bicep curls, bench presses and reverse fly's may appear to work the muscles you use for swimming, but not in the same way you will use them in the water. Even some movements in the water may not be helping your sport. Muscles developed for performing one activity, such as the bench press, will not necessarily perform any better when in the water. This is the phenomenon know as state-dependent learning which dictates that in which the retrieval of newly acquired facts is potential only if the field is in the same environment and corporeal state as while the studying phase.

By far the most sufficient way to heighten you swimming is to ..swim! concentration to how well and efficiently you move in the water is more beneficial than spending time doing a swimming exercise. You need to work on your swimming fitness and this is best done in the water. Your muscles and coordination will design and condition themselves while the act of swimming without the need for a detach swimming exercise. However, it is important that your action is efficient. It is coarse for swimmers to try too hard when training for speed resulting in inappropriate actions - ultimately wasted effort. Let's see what Aleksandr Popov, Russian Olympic Swimmer has to say

Nervous System Facts

The water is your friend.....you don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.

Swimming and Sports specific exercise

Sleeping Well: The Sourcebook for Sleep and Sleep Disorders (A Facts for Life Book) Best

Rate This Product :

Sleeping Well: The Sourcebook for Sleep and Sleep Disorders (A Facts for Life Book) Overview

Proper sleep is essential for healthy living. This timely home reference examines the important terms, conditions, remedies, and advances made in sleep research and disorder treatment. It fills the need for a thorough, easy-to-understand resource on the major theories and possible causes of sleep disorders, as well as treatments available to those who suffer.

Among the topics covered are:
Drowsy driving
Excessive daytime sleepiness
Insomnia
Jet lag, sleep and traveling
Narcolepsy
Over-the-counter and home remedies
Recommended amount of sleep for various age groups
Restless legs
Sleep apnea
Juvenile health issues.

Customer Reviews

*** Product Information and Prices Stored: Mar 03, 2012 11:21:23

If you think this sounds a exiguous too touchy feely for your swimming style have a look at what Pieter van den Hoogenband said after winning the gold medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympics

I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed
in the water, it felt amazing.

When you can learn to move efficiently in the water and use it to work with, fabulous things can happen. You don't need a swimming practice to heighten you front-crawl if you can swim in The Zone like van den Hoogenband. How you perform a technique and how much effort you use depends on how you have done it before. The process of repeating a technique many times lays down the pattern at a subconscious level until it can be executed with minimal thought. You may be developing poor movement habits by doing your swimming exercise.

But can you be sure that what you have learnt is the most efficient? Once it's a habit not only is it difficult to change, it's roughly impossible to see it for yourself. Time spent on a swimming practice schedule with weights can re-enforce the habit of trying too hard. I believe The Zone is a place where you can discard such habits and participating in your sport becomes roughly effortless and enjoyable again.

Ian Thorpe Australian Olympic gold medallist said,
People ask me "what was going through your mind in the race?" and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows
Ian Thorpe Australian Olympic gold medalist.

Thorpe has shown again and again that his body does know what its doing. We can assume, due to his fabulous success, his learnt movement patterns at a subconscious level are sufficient so he can let [his] body do what it knows. Of course this does not preclude him from lasting to learn and design his skill.

In coarse with most sports, the top swimmers often attribute some of their best performances to being in a relaxed state. Pieter van den Hoogenband's contact of winning the Sydney 2000 Olympic gold medal possibly shows us how best to perform. When the body is relaxed in the water, or put other way, absent of inappropriate muscular tension, the reflexes that operate coordination of the limbs are able to function unimpeded. We share many reflexes with water-bound creatures, in fact one is called the 'amphibian reflex' which aids movements such as swimming, crawling, walking and running.

If you are 'fighting the water' it is potential you will be adding unnecessary tension to your neck and shoulders. The muscles at the base of the skull (sub-occipitals) are the most sensitive in the body and carry messages to the central nervous ideas to help coordinate movement. If the head is pulled back by inordinate tension, caused by your effort to push harder, it prevents the muscle spindles in the deeper sub-occipital muscles giving feedback on the changing position of the head.

Why should the position of the head be important? Dr David Garlick, the late curative scientist and Alexander instructor explains

The supervene of neck muscle inputs [on movement] are comparable in point to the inputs from the organs of balance in the inner ear (semi-circular or vestibular canals). The head contains the important extra sensory organs of sight, hearing, smell and taste. As stimuli act on these senses, the head is turned to detect better a singular stimulus. Any movement of the head is detected with excellent sensitivity by the neck muscle receptors. The strong inputs from the neck muscles then affect the muscles of the trunk and limbs to put in order the man to acknowledge to the stimulus.

When you next swim or do a swimming practice see what you want to do with your neck and shoulders. Do you build up tension in prospect of swimming?

Work on your coordination and design you fitness in a way directly beneficial to your sport without compromising your health. When you are in the water see if you can contend an awareness of where your head moves on your spine. Ask yourself, whilst swimming, am I allowing my skull to move from that point (obviously the movement will depend on your stroke) or am I stiffening the neck and twisting unnecessarily. Try to remove some of the effort you are applying and see if you can imagine bright through the water without fighting it. contend an awareness of the location of the shoulder and elbow joints; the hip, knee and ankle joints and see if you can keep them free to move.

If you were going to 'cheat' to make it feel easier, what could you do? Experiment and don't be afraid to slow down or do less whilst studying in the water. If you can focus on the efficiency and cheaper of your movements the speed will come. All this can help to heighten your body awareness and ultimately heighten your execution with the need to do a swimming exercise

I'll leave the last word to Usa swimmer and Olympic medalist, Scott Goldblatt who wrote

Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as you are having fun, but I can say that it becomes much more fun as you get older and learn more about the sport, life, and especially more about yourself.

Swimming and Sports specific exerciseDr. Nicholas LaRocca n Jordan Sigalet Tube. Duration : 8.07 Mins.

Sigalet Saves for MS Professional Hockey Goalie Jordan Sigalet Takes to the Ice to Raise Money for MS Awareness, Education and Research Jordan Sigalet, Boston Bruins Hockey Prospect; Living with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis; MS LifeLines® Ambassador Dr. Nicholas LaRocca, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Background: Jordan Sigalet, NHL prospect and goaltender for the Boston Bruins' American Hockey League affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island, was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in 2004. Since his diagnosis, Jordan has been moving forward actively pursuing his dream of playing professional hockey, and is using his story to help educate others and motivate people with MS to live their dreams. Jordan also serves as a MS LifeLines® Ambassador to help people living with MS and their families find free educational resources, support, treatment information and empowerment to battle the disease. As part of Jordan's goal to help others like him "live their lives, not their MS," Jordan has enlisted the support of other American Hockey League teams nationwide to participate in a program he is spearheading with MS LifeLines called Sigalet Saves for MS. In honor of National MS Awareness Month, Sigalet Saves for MS will donate to the National MS Society for every save made in the month of March by league goaltenders participating in the program. The money raised will go to help fund MS research and service programs. MS is a chronic ...

Tags: Ms, Good, News, Broadcast, Nicholas, larocca, Jordan, Sigalet, Hockey, Goalie, Awareness, Education, Research, Multiple, Sclerosis