• Physical – sports, group games, camping,

outing
• Social- social dancing, attending parties, joining
parlor games
• Cultural- arts and craft, joining glee club, music
ministries, choirs, dramatic guilds,
• Intellectual- board games, songs, essay writing,
jingle, internet surfing
 What is swimming?

• Swimming is the action or activity of

making progress unsupported through
water using the arms and legs, whether for
pleasure, exercise, or sport.
M a t e r i a l s u s e d in c o m p e t i t i
swimming;
Swimming cap
Swimming googles
Body tights
Ankle Holds
Wrist holds
 Olympic Swimming
• There are 10 lanes but 8 are used to swim
in the Olympics so that there would be no
one swimming near the wall.
 Long Distance Swimming
• Matthew Webb was the first person to swim across
the English channel without any artificial aid. His
time was 21 hours and 45 minutes.
• The first woman to swim the English Channel was
19-year old American Gertrude Ederle. On 6 August
1926 she crossed the English Channel in 14 hours
and 31 minutes.
• Guy Delage was the first person to swim across the
Atlantic Ocean with the help of a kick board.
• Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across
the Atlantic without a kick board in 1998.
 FITT Principle
• Frequency- refers to how often you perform
the task
• Intensity- how hard the exercise
• Time- refers to the durations or how long you
exercise
• Type- what specific type of exercise