SWIMMING

Swimming



Swimming

The swimming is the art of standing and moving, using your arms and legs, on or under water. Activity may be performed as entertainment or a sport of competition or a professional swimmer. Because humans do not swim instinctively, swimming is a skill that must be learned. Unlike other animals that are given land momentum in the water, in what is essentially a form of walking, the man has had to develop a series of strokes and body movements that propel him into the water with power and speed. In these movements and styles, the evolution of competitive swimming is underlying as a sport.

Swimming can be practiced in any room of water large enough to allow free movement and not too cold, hot or turbulent. The currents and tides can be dangerous, but also pose a challenge to demonstrate the strength and value of the swimmers, as can be seen with the numerous attempts to cross the English Channel successfully.

Swimming was a sport highly esteemed in the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, especially as a method of training for warriors. In Japan and competitions were held in the first century BC However, during the Middle Ages in Europe the practice was almost forgotten, as the water immersion was associated with continuing disease epidemic of the time. By the nineteenth century disappeared this bias and, as in the twentieth, swimming has come to consider a system of therapy valuable physical and general physical exercise is more beneficial than exists. No other exercise uses many muscles of the body and so intense. In addition, the increased influx of swimmers and the best techniques for building and heating greatly increased the number of municipal pools to free air and covers worldwide. The private pool, which was at one time a sign of peculiar privilege, it is becoming increasingly common.

Clark. Wood and Larson (1998, p. 18) noted that occupational scientists focus on three major components of occupation form, meaning and function. Form, they stated, is the directly observable aspects of occupation that make it recognizable to us, whereas meaning is what the occupation symbolizes to the individual. Functions are concerned with the way the occupation is undertaken, and whether adaptation required or not. Linked to the function of occupation and of relevance to this discussion are questions concerning the relationship between occupation and health, subjective well-being, stress management, and quality of life (Clark et al. 1998, p. 15).

Occupation can be defined as; “The activities of everyday life, named, organised, and given value and meaning by individuals and a culture. Occupation is everything people to do occupied themselves, including looking after themselves…enjoying life… and contributing to the social and economic fabric of their communities”. (Law, Polatojko, Babtiste & Townsend, (1997, p. 105) Cited in Kuhaneck, Spitzer & Miller (2010, p.32) Occupations are considered to become important to a person when they hold a meaning; this is one of the concepts of occupation that an OT goes through with their client when analyzing their participation ...