Swimming is a water sport that everyone knows and loves. People who know to swim are lucky enough as they can wade through any situation dealing with water without getting drowned. In short know swimming means a person is less likely to drown. Swimming is generally recommended for all. I still remember my young age when the whole family would go on a vacation to the home town in a small village in Kerala. With a big extended family and lots of cousins each would wait to go to the nearby pond early morning hours to have a bath, a dip, and swim. There would be a competition to know who swims fastest from one side of the pond to the other and then back. One would not even know of the time spent in the pond swimming and having fun that parents would come searching for us. Those were the days but today with different sized swimming pools in houses, apartment’s, etc people make use of the swimming pools to swim.  One would be surprised to know many unknown facts about swimming. Let us have a look at a few of them.

1. Do you know that breaststroke was the oldest stroke of swimming created in Britain in 1830?
2. Though swimming is a popular sport more than 60 percent of the people in the US do not know how to swim.
3. Do you know that swimming is a good exercise that actually makes use of all the muscles of the body including the stomach, lower back, arms, hamstring, hips etc.
4. It’s a fact that many swimmers develop shoulder pain due to the cross over stroke in freestyle.
5. It’s disgusting but better to know that there are some swimmers who pass tools in the water. So better be careful next time you go swimming!!!
6. People who swim are in a position to bend their toes to the ground. Foot ankle flexion is very important for swimming performance.
7. Do you know that free divers can hold on to their breaths for 10 minutes with the record breaking one holding breath for 22 minutes by Stig Severinsen. Surprising isn’t it.
8. Do you know that swimmers lose as much sweat in the pool than any athlete loses on the land?
9. The worlds youngest internationally competent swimmer Alzain Tareq became so at the age of 10 years. However, the worlds most aged competent swimmer is Mieko Nagaoka who is 90 years elder than the youngest swimmer.!!

Adult swimming coaches are there to help the adults who learn swimming to improve their performance in swimming.