FINDING THE FUN AND BENEFITS IN SWIMMING
The best form of exercise for me is swimming. The first time I tried swimming was during my 200-level days at the university. My group of friends and I went on an outing to spend the whole day at the swimming pool. This happened when all state/government-owned schools went on a lasting strike, which had lasted for a period of 3 months already. It was a very eventful day as we had a lot of fun and almost became swimming experts.
At 3ft, one of my friends was shouting for help, thinking he was drowning in the water. This guy was at least 5.9ft tall, but at that depth, he was screaming for help, realising that the water was not too deep, he stood on his feet, which was when he knew he was giving out a false alarm, and he became ashamed of himself. To date, I will mock him, calling him help! Help!
That evening, I felt it in all my joints and muscles; my stomach most especially felt the exercise, and my hands, too, were very sore that day, which was when I believed that swimming was a very good exercise, and I categorised it as the best form of exercise.
I don’t go close to rivers and large bodies of water, except for the swimming pool, because I know that I cannot swim. Although I have tried countless times to learn how to swim, I still find it very challenging. Usually, I find it hard to hold my breath for long, which makes it difficult for me to swim without breathing underwater. If I should find myself in a situation where I must swim out to save myself, except someone comes to my rescue, I am certain that I will not be able to save myself, and I will find it difficult to survive the ordeal or swim out to safety. This is because I can barely swim from one end of a swimming pool to the other end of the swimming pool.
The reason why I am yet to be a swimming pro is because I haven’t had time to go for more practice, I love the idea of becoming a swimmer so much, but I don’t really have people around me that share the same passion, the friends we went to swim when I was in school went there for just the fun, but I was there because I wanted to learn how to swim and at the very beginning, I was already getting it, we stayed in the swimming pool that day from as early as 9 in the morning and were there till late that day, that day, I was already swimming, I only needed to be going regularly to perfect it but I didn’t have the opportunity to or the courage to go on my own.
I will probably have to build my swimming pool or find the courage to learn at a public pool or better still have someone train me somewhere privately, among the reasons I haven’t gone to the pool again is only because I am shy and don’t want to be a laughing stock when everyone will be there watching and I haven’t had time to visit one with friends on a quiet day.
Thank you for reading. My name is @rishagamo, and this is my response to the Hive Learners weekly Featured Content Week 191 Episode 03: “THE SWIMMER”.
