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U.S. Olympic Male Swimmers


In 1896 the Olympics were held in Athens Greece.  The swim competition was composed of 19 male swimmers.  These male swimmers were from four nations, Hungary, Austria, Greece and the United States.  Only male swimmers were allowed to compete in the Olympics until the year 1912.  By the year 1924, forty-four nations were participating in the Olympic Games.  The following are male swimmers from the United States in no particular order.

The first on the list of male swimmers happens to be the youngest of the male swimmers since 1932.  His name is Michael Phelps and he was the 15 year old from Maryland and it was the 2000 Olympics.  He did not medal that year but in 2004 he had gone on to be the first of the American male swimmers to win eight medals in one Olympiad.  He had won 6 gold and 2 bronze medals in Athens and was compared to Mark Spitz as one of the greatest male swimmers of all time.

The second of the male swimmers is Johnny Weissmuller.  Johnny Weissmuller competed in the 1924 Olympics and won 3 gold medals and 1 bronze medal.  He also competed in 1928 Olympics and won 2 more gold medals.  In his amateur career he had set 67 world records and had never lost a race.  He is probably the most famous of the male swimmers turned actor.  He is best known for starring as Tarzan in Tarzan the Ape Man.  It is in his movies that you heard that famous Tarzan yell.  Johnny Weissmuller has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Buster Crabbe is another of the male swimmers who then went on to have an acting career. He starred as Tarzan, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers to name a few.  Buster Crabbe competed in the 1928 Olympics in which he won a bronze medal and also in the 1932  


Olympics winning a gold medal.  Buster also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

One of the most famous of the male swimmers is Mark Spitz from California.  Mark had won 7 gold medals and set 7 world records in each of these events in the 1972 Olympics.  Of all the male swimmers thus far, none had attained this many medals in a single Olympiad.  His total medals won in his Olympic career is 11.  In 1968 he had won 2 gold, one silver and 1 bronze medal.

The next of the male swimmers is Matt Biondi from California.  In 1984 Matt Biondi won a gold medal with his relay team and had set a world record.  In 1988 he tied Mark Spitz for most medals won in one Games.  He won 5 gold medals with four of them setting world records, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal in that year.  In 1992 Matt had won 2 gold medals and 1 silver medal.  Matt had competed in the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympics, had won a total of 11 Olympic medals and had set several world records.  He also became one of the first two American male swimmers to win a gold medal in three Olympiads.  The other male swimmer was Tom Jager.  Matt is a member of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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Melvin Stewart is one of the male swimmers who competed in the 1988 Seoul games but did not medal.  He then qualified for the 1992 Games in Barcelona in which he won 2 gold medals and 1 bronze medal.  One of the gold medals was won in Olympic record time.  He has won 14 titles in the National Championships having the most in U.S. history in the 200 meter butterfly event.

The male swimmer John Naber had won 4 gold medals and one silver medal in the 1976 Olympics.  The 4 gold medals were all won in world record time.  John was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame in 1984.  He participated in the Olympic Games not only one of the male swimmers but also as an Olympic Flag bearer and carried the Olympic Torch 3 times.

One of the oldest male swimmers to win a gold medal was Pablo Morales.  Pablo Morales had won 1 gold medal and 2 silver medals in the 1984 Olympics.  He failed to qualify for the 1988 Olympics, retired for a short while and came back in the 1992 Olympics to win 2 gold medals.  In 1992 he was the team captain and was 27 years old.

The next of the Olympic male swimmers is Michael Barrowman from California.  In 1988 Michael Barrowman placed fourth in the 200 meter breaststroke.  He then qualified for the 1992 Games in Barcelona and won a gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke event.

Of all the male swimmers through 1992, Tom Jager was one of two male swimmers to win gold medals in three Olympiads.  The other male swimmer was Matt Biondi.  Tom Jager swam in the 1984, 1988 and the 1992 Olympics.  Tom also won a silver medal in Seoul in 1988 and a bronze medal in Barcelona in 1992.  In 1998 and 1992 Tom was the team captain and in 1996 at the age of thirty-one he tried to qualify for the fourth time.  Unfortunately he did not qualify.  Tom Jager was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2001.

The next of the male swimmers is Gary Hall Sr.  He competed in three Olympiads.  In 1968 he won a silver medal in Mexico City.  In 1972 Gary Hall Sr. won a silver medal at the Munich Games and in 1976 he won a bronze medal in the Montreal Games.  Gary carried the American flag at the closing ceremonies of the Montreal Games.  He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1981.

Gary Hall Jr. is the next of the Olympic male swimmers and is the son of Gary Hall Sr.  Gary Hall Jr. competed in the 1996 Atlanta Games and had won 2 gold medals and two silver medals. In the 2000 Sydney Games he won 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal.  In the 2004 Games in Athens he won a gold in the finals and a bronze in the preliminary round.  In 2004 he and his father became the first father and son to compete in 3 Olympic Games.

 
Exercise Journals to Help Male Swimmers and Other Athletes Stay Motivated

Male swimmers as professional athletes are fun to watch while they are at the peak of their performance doing the sport that they are best at. You can watch these male swimmers every weekend play on your television set or watch them in person at the stadium or at arenas. The most amazing athletes and male swimmers would be the triathletes in terms of overall fitness. If you practice a sport that would demand a great skill in swimming, running and cycling, you need to be very physically fit. You can only achieve ultimate overall physical fitness if you work out and train regularly, and you can track what you have been training for with the use of an exercise journal to monitor and check their sports goals.

And so, just like many male swimmers today, if you are a professional athlete who wants to excel in whatever sport or competition that you enter, you must make sure that the workout schedule that you have planned will yield top and peak performance on the day of your event or competition. A thorough and carefully planned workout regime for male swimmers which consists of stretches, strength training and cardio work outs with in between strategic rest periods spread through out is required if you expect the athlete to arrive at the competition at his best form and not undertrained nor overtrained. You can monitor and check so if you list down all the details of his exercise regime each day. The exercise journal should show information such as duration of workout, the intensity of the workout, and the type of workout that he has done. This should keep the professional athlete on track to meeting their desired goals, and to motivate and encourage them because they see for themselves their improvement and progress that he himself is writing at the end of the day.

Male swimmers and other athletes also think it is necessary to use a calorie calculator, on top of following and monitoring their workout schedules to ensure that they are eating enough calories and the appropriate amounts of carbohydrates, fats and proteins in order for the bodies to perform at peak level. For example, we all know that our muscles need an adequate amount of protein in order to repair properly every time we work out. This is especially true if the male swimmer or professional athlete engages in a sport that is mainly centered on strength training, like weight lifting so that it would give their muscles an opportunity and a chance to become stronger and to repair themselves. The professional athlete may do everything in the work out properly, but if they take care of their diet very poorly, I believe that he would not be able to see optimal results. Therefore, along with an exercise journal, a professional athlete should also keep an accurate food diary to help them achieve their desired goal to be at their peak performance.

We can find that the online web makes it much easier for these male swimmers and professional athletes to use calorie counters and exercise journals. The professional athletes depend on them to record and organize and keep track of their exercise workouts and their diets to make sure that they are right on track to achieving peak performance.


Male Swimmers Attest to Weight Loss that Results From Swimming


Did you know that swimming is considered the best exercise because not only can it burn up calories fast but it can also improve your lung and heart functions. Swimming can also be an effective way of training your muscles as most male swimmers attest to. This is because your bones become fully relaxed when you are in the water because of the water buoyancy. Male swimmers also say that swimming can be good for people who would like to add a couple of inches to their height.

Swimming is also such a great exercise as similar to male swimmers, you would be able to expend lots of energy when you swim because of the water resistance. Water resistance is far stronger than air resistance when you try to exercise on land. If you walk in water, it takes up energy, much more if you try to swim in the water. Also, the thermal conductivity of water is greater than the atmosphere by 24 times, and did you know that the water temperature is quite lower than the temperature at normal room, so this adds to more heat loss and greater energy consumption. So, it is obvious that you will lose more weight effectively when you swim than when you exercise on land.

Many male swimmers also say that swimming can help in the prevention of injuries from your waist and lower limbs work outs. This is because when you work out on land, the body weight becomes heavy because of the gravitational pull, so you may easily injure your lower limbs and joints. But, in the water, there are minimal injuries because a portion of your body weight will be carried by the water buoyancy. So, the load on your lower body is reduced, hence you avoid risk of injuries to your bones and joints.

You may even find that swimming is a natural relaxing massage because of the water buoyancy, pressure and water resistance. You might also notice that male swimmers have great skin as swimming also have a lot of benefits in beautifying the skin.

Did you know that water resistance is 12 times greater than the air resistance on land? This will greatly help in training your hip and leg muscles, your back, chest and abdomen especially if you are a male or female swimmer. Swimming is also a fun and exciting way to work out and you lose more heat when you are in the water than when you are on land. In short, you lose more heat and you consume more calories when you are swimming, and your body fats will easily be burned.

If you want to get the best results, you need to plan for a swimming training. Male swimmers recommend that if you are a beginner, then you can swim 3 minutes continuously, and then rest for 1-2 minutes. Then you swim twice again, for three minutes. Repeat the process until you feel that you are ready to go to the second stage, wherein you have to swim for 10 minutes continuously and then a break of 3 minutes, repeating it three times. If you are still comfortable and relaxed to continue, then you may proceed to working out for around 20 minutes or even 30 minutes long. If you feel that you are already overworked, then go back to the accepted intensity of your body. Adjust your level to what your body can handle. The recommended training is once every two days, because you exert a lot of physical strength when you swim.

You consume a lot of calories when you swim, around 1,100 calories for every 30 minutes of swimming. Swimming is best if you want to lose weight because you burn lots of calories but it is also great for people who want to gain weight because swimming increases muscles size and cause weight gain from muscle increase.


For Male Swimmers: 5 Tips For Open Water Swims

If you a re a male swimmer, then here are a couple of useful tips that you might want to keep in mind as you do open water swims.

1. Make sure that you have practiced swimming with your race goggles in open waters before the actual race. This is because you will have lesser visibility in the open waters than when you practice swimming in your pool. It would be such a shame for something as trivial as goggles to deter you from your best swim, so make sure that you are confident with the goggles that you bring. Make sure that they don’t fog, leak or have poor visibility in the open water. There are many brands that designed for use by male swimmers that offer good face hugging goggles and great swim mask.

2. Swim with high elbows. You might need to do this because your smooth swim stroke that you have practiced in your pool will be completely swallowed up by the choppy open waters. So make sure that you swim with high elbows so that you would have great recovery and entry in the water. Try imagining that you are zipping up an imaginary zipper at your side while you do your strokes.

3. Sight off landmarks, and not buoys. Buoys can become impossible to see with all the commotion due to the extra bodies and the water splashing all around you. Make sure that you try to focus on landmarks of bigger and more visible things like bridges, stationary boats or even houses found on the shore. This will ensure you that you are close to your swim course as possible making you have an easier time being on track.

4. Swim on the perimeters. You will experience minimum stress and frustration and you would be maintaining a steadier pace if you make sure that you stay in the inside or to the outside of the group. This is especially true if you have joined a large triathlon. You will spend lesser energy trying to change your pace to match and compete with the group’s pace while drafting is not an option for you. Just a precaution: if you do decide to swim on the group’s inside, there could be a lot of jockeying for positions as you turn the buoy, so make sure that you are not afraid to fight it off with the other male swimmers.

5. Practice swimming with groups. Since most male swimmers are used to a relaxed pace of a solo swim in our pools or in the open waters, panic usually sets in when you see hundreds of other bodies swimming beside us in the open waters. Try practicing group swimming at your local beach during the busy times of the year, or even swimming with your family members at your own pool. Get used to not being solo in the waters by joining swim classes, and they can also help you experience the pace changes, and train and practice your mental and physical skills to adapt and encourage the best from you when you are with other people in the open waters while you stay relaxed.


The Different Swimming Strokes of Male Swimmers



If you want to excel in swimming as a male swimmer, then you must have the basic knowledge of the four different swim strokes and choose the best one that you feel most comfortable with.

1. Freestyle Stroke : The freestyle stroke involves two basic things. The first is that you have the catch the water in front of your hands. Then the second thing is that your legs will have to propel in the back as a follow through. You have to make sure that you do not clench your hands and that your fingers are not closed so that they are more relaxed therefore you can catch more water with each stroke. Kicking your legs should imitate how an individual will do so when using a pair of fins. The hips have to give the power since it has more muscle power than the calves have. You do not have to let your feet exit the water since you are propelled when you kick and you hit the water, and not by hitting the air.

2. Backstroke: This is considered as the opposite of the freestyle stroke because you do this while you are lying on your back. You must point your head up to the sky while you move your hands alternately from your thighs up to your ears. Make sure that your thumbs are the first to exit the water and that they form a 90 degree angle, while it should change when your pinky finger is the first to enter and hit the water. You must do this motion alternately by each hand while you kick your legs with power still emanating from your legs and thighs. You can achieve body roll when you use your arms already. If you use your left arm, then you must tilt the right side of your body downward to have less drag in the water. The ideal drill is placing a tiny plastic shaped donut on top of your head. If the plastic donut stays in your head, then you are doing the stroke right. You might try speeding up while doing this.

3. Breast Stroke: This stroke is simply achieved by pushing the water downwards using your arms while you let your legs go sideward. The hands reentering have since evolved since 1989 while they also invented the wave technique to create less water drag. You achieve this by making a tiny circle then making your hands go back in front of you at the surface of the water. This can prove to be very hard and difficult during long events because the arms have a lactic acid buildup. You can use a pull buoy to practice this stroke by letting your arms work while you keep your legs close together.

4. Butterfly: The last of the four swimming strokes. The swimmer should use both of his hands to come in and out of the water at the same time while making sure that his legs are kept close together while imitating a motion similar to the dolphins. Most male swimmers and other swimming experts say that this is perhaps the easiest to learn of the four strokes, however it could require a lot of endurance to master.

 

MALE SWIMMERS GIVE OUT HIGH END PERFORMANCES  Visitor Article 

Swimming is not only an hobby of most of the people, but its also a sportive game, swimming is a movement of humans or animals through water, this is a game which is both useful and recreational, male swimmers are more powerful and have high competition compared to female swimmers, in Olympic games there are around 17 male swimmer events, where good and great swimmers participate, there are mainly four common strokes available for swimmers, among these men have more hard and risky competitions

Some of the few competitions in which male swimmers participate are butterfly, breast stroke, back stroke and free style. Free style and front style are same.

Male swimmers in the olden days used to wear full body suits until 1940’s, these things used to cause more drag in the water. Now the suits which are designed for male swimmers include engineered fabric and they help in reducing drag in the water and prevent athlete fatigue.

How a male swimmer performs in a track? What are his functions?

During a track male swimmer on an average jumps to a distance of 2.4m, where as a female swimmer jumps to around 2.2m.

Advantages of male swimmer

1. He gains a lot of heights from the blocks during the flight phase, this is gained by throwing his arms up and forward.

2. He keeps his hips high during the flight and rises his legs before entry.

3. Male swimmers head and arms are streamlined with head tucked between arms

How a male swimmer performs during backward tumble turn?

His speed of tumbling from the wall is quite less which helps in increasing the motion and reducing the time.

A male swimmer glides in a streamlined position with arms above the head; he bends his knees and gives a maximum push.


How male swimmers are trained?
Physical training of male swimmers is very much far more advanced when compared to females, they are given training to move in deep shallow waters, and their physical training includes fast arm beating, cardiac training and breath control during deep dives, water resistance etc.

They are given training in big pools with well qualified trainers, and the dress selection for these men is also quite good, this is designed keeping in mind their physical problems like heart beat, breathing safe etc.
Most of the male swimmers look out for games which involve high deep waters.

Male swimmers practice more to follow some of the rules to get success in competitions, they take proper care like hitting maximum strokes in the water, making the body streamlined, giving a maximum hit to water, making eye contact on the destination, keeping the head in between the hands and eyes away from water etc.

Taking all these factors into consideration it can be said that male swimmers have high performance delivered when compared to female swimmers, the body language, dress sense and their mental abilities are far more wide and good, which give them good success.