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How to keep warm during swimming lessons?

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Jul 27 2018
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COLD COLD…. brrrr….. Parents have observed that their children often shiver and end their swimming lessons with blue lips. If swimming is an exercise, why is it that their children would still feel cold? One reason is that learn to swim programmes do not create enough physical activity for young children to generate enough body heat. Imagine being in a larger class size and having to wait for your turn every single swimming lesson. The children would be sitting at the edge, exposed and not moving enough. Thus even after a supposed one hour swimming lesson, these children still feel cold […]

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Does Drown-Proofing Your Child Work?

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Aug 23 2017
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Baby swimming is one sensory activity that promotes a healthy lifestyle, cultivates a life skill and promotes parent-child bonding. In recent times, many people are captivated by the idea of how babies can rescue themselves by “drown-proofing” methods – they float on their backs spontaneously when they fall into the water. These methods promote the idea that drowning risks are decreased when babies and toddlers are taught to rescue themselves in this manner. We have been receiving many enquiries on whether we teach such skills to babies. However, MoovSwim does not advocate in the teaching of these methods. The UK […]

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Swimming is Good for Asthma

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Jul 03 2017
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Swimming is one of the best ways to control the symptoms of asthma. Though asthma can be caused by exercising, famous athletes with asthma such as Paula Radcliffe, Mark Spitz, and Amy Van Dyken have overcome their conditions. Amy Van Dyken won 4 gold medals during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, in 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 4 by 100m freestyle and 4 by 100m medley events. Amy has a limited lung capacity of 65%! How does swimming help with asthma? According to a scientific study published by Wiley-Blackwell in Respirology, swimming helps reduce the symptoms of asthma in children. Improvements in […]

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Why are swimming lessons so important?

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Jun 30 2017
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The Importance of Swimming Lessons Whenever I talk to parents, I was told that swimming lessons is one of the most important skills they are willing to invest in. It is widely accepted that learning to swim can save lives. However, every year there will be one or two drowning incidents happening in Singapore. From 2011 to 2015, there have been an average of twenty drowning or near-drowning cases in Singapore. The latest drowning incident in May 2017 happened to a 13 year old boy off East Coast Park. Drowning still remains as one of the top causes of deaths […]

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Swimming Slows Down Ageing

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Jul 30 2016
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Swimming Slows Down Ageing We all know that swimming is great, but did you know it can slow down the ageing process? A long-term study at Indiana University Bloomington’s Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming found that Masters Swimmers (those aged 35 and above) who swam roughly 3,200 to 4,500 metres (3.2 to 4.5 kilometres) three to five times a week, delayed their ageing process. Their ageing process is postponed by not just a few years, but for decades, using traditional age markers like muscle mass blood pressure and lung function as a guide. But what if you aren’t […]

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How to Protect Your Hair and Skin after Swim

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Jun 15 2016
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Hair and Skin Care after Swim Many of us enjoy swimming, and water gives us a sense of freedom and liberation. There are many benefits of swimming known to all of us. However, even though chlorine in the pool is needed for disinfection purposes, chlorine can destroy proteins in our bodies, causing our hair and skin to become very dry. Chlorine can cause the swimmer’s hair to be frizzy, bleached out and dry with split ends. It also dries out the scalp, and can cause dandruff. The inner layer of the hair is covered by an outer layer called the cuticle, which is protected […]

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Why do we shower before swimming?

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Jun 07 2016
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The importance of shower before swimming Have you ever wondered why… you are asked to shower before entering the pool? your eyes go red or feel irritated after swimming? the smell of chlorine is so strong in the pool? You are not alone. About 44 percent of people do not believe it is necessary to shower before going in the pool, with only 32 percent of respondents surveyed say they always shower before swimming. In a survey conducted by Survata on behalf of the Water Quality and Health Council, 71 percent of Americans thought that chlorine is to be blamed for […]

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Swim workouts for a toner tummy

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May 23 2016
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Many of us aspire to have flat stomachs and having tight core muscles. Strong stomach muscles are important for back health, as our stomach and back muscles work together to keep us from slumping and compressing internal organs. Strong stomach mucles also helps to keep us balanced. This is important as we age, reducing the risk of falling. In this post, we introduce a few simple swim workouts that everyone can work on to achieve a toner tummy! 1. Kickboard Kicks Get a kickboard and hold it at the edge with your arms outstretched. Start kicking! While kicking, imagine pulling your navel in toward your […]

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Five Year Old Saves Mom From Drowning

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May 16 2016
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Very often, we read news about heroic acts of adults and animals saving children from drowning. Today, we share about an amazing heroic act, where a five year old girl from Texas, USA rescued her mother from drowning in their family swimming pool. The entire heroic incident was captured on the family’s surveillance camera. Watch the video below! Tracy Anderwald and her five year old daughter Allison were just enjoying their favourite activity of swimming to celebrate the end of spring break. Then, something went wrong. Tracy had suffered from a seizure and blacked out, sinking four feet to the […]

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Effects of Exercise on Cancer Cells

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May 15 2016
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Exercise is known to prevent ailments such as cancer. But did you know that exercise actually kills cancer cells? A research was done in 2013 on the effects of exercise on prostrate cancer cell growth, where men were instructed to exercise on the stationary bicycles for 60 minutes. Their blood samples were taken before and after exercise, and the results were amazing. It was found that the number of cancer cells actually diminished! Why is this possible? Adrenaline that is induced due to exercise helps in the cinculcation of natural killer immune cells in your bloodstream, and an immune signaling molecule released […]

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