Swimming is the second most popular exercise activity in the United States, with 360 million annual visits to water venues. Experts emphasize that parents should closely supervise young children in and around water at all times, even after aquatic programs, and stay within arm's reach of infants and toddlers. The backstroke involves alternating arms moving with equal strength while the body rolls from side to side, similar to freestyle but on the back.
Swimming is the second most popular exercise activity in the United States, with 360 million annual visits to water venues. Experts emphasize that parents should closely supervise young children in and around water at all times, even after aquatic programs, and stay within arm's reach of infants and toddlers. The backstroke involves alternating arms moving with equal strength while the body rolls from side to side, similar to freestyle but on the back.
Swimming is the second most popular exercise activity in the United States, with 360 million annual visits to water venues. Experts emphasize that parents should closely supervise young children in and around water at all times, even after aquatic programs, and stay within arm's reach of infants and toddlers. The backstroke involves alternating arms moving with equal strength while the body rolls from side to side, similar to freestyle but on the back.
Swimming is the second most popular exercise activity in the United States, with 360 million annual visits to water venues. Experts emphasize that parents should closely supervise young children in and around water at all times, even after aquatic programs, and stay within arm's reach of infants and toddlers. The backstroke involves alternating arms moving with equal strength while the body rolls from side to side, similar to freestyle but on the back.
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swimming is the second most popular
exercise activity in the United States, with approximately 360 million annual visits to recreational water venues. They emphasize that parents should not feel secure that their child is safe in water or safe from drowning after participating in an aquatic program. They state, "Whenever infants and toddlers are in or around water, an adult should be within an arm's length, providing 'touch supervision.'" Similar to the freestyle in that you use an alternate windmill arm stroke and flutter kick.
Two keys to a proper backstroke are that your arms
move with equal strength, otherwise you will swim off to one side, and that your body rolls from side to side so that your arms catch enough water to propel you forward.