Physical Activity In The Water And The Human Body
Bure, Anna (2019)
2019
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The purpose of the presented thesis is to cover the basics of what happens to our bod-ies and psychological state when we perform physical activity in the water and just being in the water. The goal is to get the reader to see water in a new way, especially if they have a phobia of anything related to being in the water or drowning, which causes them to fear water instead of enjoying it. The second goal of this thesis is to introduce sport coaches to the overlooked benefits that water and water exercises can give to their ath-letes, such as rehabilitation and training, all outside the gym and dryland.
Methods used for writing this thesis were literature books on aqua fitness programs, internet research, and a questionaire for people who swam and worked at the pool. The entire thesis process took about 6 months to do and ended in a conclusion of a twist in my hypothesis about how physical activity benefitted the most to the people who took part in the questionaire.
Briefly, the research of this thesis will explain water, what it does to the body, finding the right temperature of water for a desired activity, health cautions concerning water. Gen-eral benefits of water including the physical and mental parts with a subchapter on the history of how water benefitted people in the past, all the way from the B.C century. Then a chapter on water concerning the athletic body, which is a good chapter for coaches who want to know more on what water could do to their athletes, with subchapters such as hydration and how water affects the muscles, building strength doing exercises in the water, and preventing injuries in the water. The next chapter shows different types of common water exercises starting from hydrotherapy, water fitness, swimming, and reha-bilitation, ending with interesting theory on why heart rates are lower in the water than on dryland when exercising. Second to last chapter will discuss the physcial laws and properties of water which is buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, viscosity, thermoregulation. Those are the laws and properties that do all the changes to the body.
The last chapter is a poll that asks water fitness instructors and their clients, swimmers, swimming coaches, and just overall water lovers about the benefits that physcial activity in the water brought them or their clients. The discussion part reviews the whole thesis, what research stood out the most, what new knowledge was found about physcial activity in the water, and ending it all with the process of the thesis and self evaluation of learning this topic.
Methods used for writing this thesis were literature books on aqua fitness programs, internet research, and a questionaire for people who swam and worked at the pool. The entire thesis process took about 6 months to do and ended in a conclusion of a twist in my hypothesis about how physical activity benefitted the most to the people who took part in the questionaire.
Briefly, the research of this thesis will explain water, what it does to the body, finding the right temperature of water for a desired activity, health cautions concerning water. Gen-eral benefits of water including the physical and mental parts with a subchapter on the history of how water benefitted people in the past, all the way from the B.C century. Then a chapter on water concerning the athletic body, which is a good chapter for coaches who want to know more on what water could do to their athletes, with subchapters such as hydration and how water affects the muscles, building strength doing exercises in the water, and preventing injuries in the water. The next chapter shows different types of common water exercises starting from hydrotherapy, water fitness, swimming, and reha-bilitation, ending with interesting theory on why heart rates are lower in the water than on dryland when exercising. Second to last chapter will discuss the physcial laws and properties of water which is buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, viscosity, thermoregulation. Those are the laws and properties that do all the changes to the body.
The last chapter is a poll that asks water fitness instructors and their clients, swimmers, swimming coaches, and just overall water lovers about the benefits that physcial activity in the water brought them or their clients. The discussion part reviews the whole thesis, what research stood out the most, what new knowledge was found about physcial activity in the water, and ending it all with the process of the thesis and self evaluation of learning this topic.