Swimming Facts
- 01Swimming is a competitive or recreational activity where a person uses their entire body to move through water.
- 02There are 4 recognized swimming strokes.
- 03The “stroke” is the style or the way a person maneuvers through the water.
- 04People swam as early as 10,000 years ago.
- 05The earliest known evidence of swimming was in Stone Age paintings.
Swimming Facts Infographics
Over 4 billion people in the world can’t swim.
More than half of the global population does not know how to swim, so you don’t need to feel too bad about yourself. However, it could be a handy life skill. Drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide.
The world record for the longest breath held is over 20 minutes.
Spanish freediver Aleix Segura Vendell can hold his breath for 24 minutes and 3 seconds. Freediving is an underwater diving method that forgoes a breathing apparatus. Instead of an oxygen tank, freedivers merely rely on the oxygen in their lungs. This guy definitely kills it at birthday parties.
Since swimming is a low-impact workout, it’s great for people in delicate conditions. This includes injuries, pregnancy, and other restrictions such as age or physical limitations. In fact, water yoga and water jogging have only increased in popularity throughout the years for people with joint pain. It is also used for physical therapy or rehabilitation.
You can take 9400 baths with all the water found in an Olympic-sized pool.
Olympic sized pool volume is around 660,000 gallons of water. An Olympic-size swimming pool is approximately 164 feet long, 82 feet wide, and 6 feet deep. The average bathtub can only contain 70 gallons of water. It’s only fitting, because…
…Swimmers sweat underwater.
It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves. Why don’t fish drown? Do fish pee? Similarly, do swimmers sweat? Yes, in fact, they do. Sweating is the biological function of the body to cool itself. During intense workouts, the body will perspire even in the water. However, it’s barely noticeable even to the swimmers themselves since the water washes the sweat off.