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SWIMMING: AND PLEASANT AND USEFUL
There are quite a few warm days left, and many water lovers are in a hurry to find a suitable swimming pool for winter in their element
About the benefits of swimming
Swimming is not only a pleasant pastime, but also an excellent physical activity on almost all muscles of the body. The benefits of swimming are obvious. This is a complex aerobic exercise in which the muscles of the upper and lower body work. Therefore, depending on the combination of technology, speed and frequency of training, swimming can help both with weight loss, and with strengthening muscles and general body health. Continue reading
School of sports and combat sambo
Sambo (“Self-Defense without Protection”), like some other types of wrestling, was developed in the USSR. November 16, 1938 is the official birthday of this sport. It all started with the release of the Order of the All-Union Committee on Physical Culture and Sports “On the development of the fight of the free style.” But much earlier, Spiridonov (specialization — methods of self-defense from boxing and national types of wrestling) and Oshchepkov (specialization — judo) developed independently from each other combat systems, which were combined into a single system, on the basis of which training in schools of the NKVD was built. Continue reading
Rock climbing. Climbing walls and climbing schools
Man wanted to conquer nature at all times – rafting along the turbulent river flows, studying the depths of the sea, exploring the dark depths of the cave. But climbing has always stood out especially on this list. After all, it is during the climb to the summit that a person tests his strength every minute, very often one has to be left alone with himself, with his equipment and the smooth vertical surface of a mountain stone.
Climbing is a sport that was once separated from mountaineering, so it’s pretty difficult to trace its history. We only know that active development began in the territory of our country. Continue reading