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Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui6,266 ratings, 3.97 average rating, 1,036 reviews
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"You don't have to be a great swimmer to appreciate the benefits of sensory solitude and the equilibrium the water can bring."
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― Why We Swim
"For many swimmers, the act of swimming is a tonic, in that old-fashioned sense of the word: it is a restorative, a stimulant, undertaken for a feeling of vigor and well-being. The word tonic comes from the Greek tonikos, "of or for stretching." About a dozen people"
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― Why We Swim
"Tanaka's lab has pioneered new research on swimming's effects on two of the biggest hallmarks of aging: high blood pressure and arthritis. "Over the last four or five years, a funky thing happened—we realized that the effects of swimming actually surpassed the magnitude of the effects of walking or cycling," he tells me. "None of us knew that before." Average reduction in blood pressure after land-based exercise training is five to seven points. Swimming, he found, reduces blood pressure by an average of nine points—in the blood-pressure world, that's significant. It also decreases arterial stiffness, a condition in which the walls of your arteries become less elastic and add strain to the heart muscle."
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― Why We Swim
"Buoyancy, floating, weightlessness. Freedom. These are the words we use to talk about swimming. Is it a coincidence that this is also the language we use to talk about the lightness of being, the wellness of being, that we strive for in this corporeal world?"
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― Why We Swim
"Franz Kafka observed that "the truth is always an abyss. One must—as in a swimming pool—dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order later to rise again—laughing and fighting for breath—to the now doubly illuminated surface of things."
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― Why We Swim
"I begin to realize that the physical repetition can be a kind of meditation that transcends the simple goal of winning a race."
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― Why We Swim
"How nice it would be to die swimming toward the sun. —Le Corbusier"
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― Why We Swim
"Over time, swimming has shifted from mere mechanics and survival—a military skill, practiced by men—to achieve a more intangible significance: a form of recreation, a pleasure, something that can sharpen your spiritual as well as physical health. This idea of swimming for wellness, emotional resonance, whole personhood, rings true to me. The physical is intertwined with the psychological."
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― Why We Swim
"We dare to jump so we can see something new. And sometimes we do it to recover a sense of what we once had."
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― Why We Swim
"Seawater is so similar in mineral content to human blood plasma that our white blood cells can survive and function in it for some time. I delight in my mental picture of this, the not-so-fanciful notion that we have seawater circulating in our veins."
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― Why We Swim
"Three decades of swimming, of chasing equilibrium, have kept my head firmly above water. Swimming can enable survival in ways beyond the physical."
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― Why We Swim
"Athletes who can perform on demand—Torres, Phelps, Ledecky—are enough like SEALs that this was Bauman's mantra for the American swimmers in Rio, in 2016: Swim like a dolphin, think like a SEAL."
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― Why We Swim
"Important, too, is the pride we feel in the well-exercised body. "The fuller sense of self we have," Young once told an interviewer, "the more responsibility we take for it."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
"Some of the benefits of swimming derive, ironically, from daring to come as close as we can to this very fight for survival. That's the sublime: the awe and the terror, together. Those moments of panic, the electric flashes of fear, are elucidating, exhilarating. The act of getting in is a small defiance of death itself."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
"I will tell you the one thing that distinguishes swimming from all other forms of exercise." I listen carefully. "People enjoy it a lot more."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
"Swimming is the second most popular recreational activity in America, outranked only by walking. But swimming is the one that quite literally takes us out of our element."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
"There's a giddiness to being in that water," Kim observes. "It connects with a playfulness that we forget about as adults."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
"Swimming is a way for us to remember how to play."
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― Why We Swim
"Dave Rastovich: "We forget our bodies as we know them and we just . . . swim."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
"In America, the pool is a privilege. People have historically had complicated feelings about water. Mixing in it deliberately—as men and women, as rich and poor, as black and brown and white—can stir up all kinds of fears. As a society, we've kept different groups apart based on those fears."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
"Four years earlier, Weissmuller had been the first to break the one-minute barrier in the 100-meter freestyle. (That he would later go on to play Tarzan in MGM's blockbuster films and become an international movie star of the era is also worthy of note.)"
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― Why We Swim
"Though class lines had been erased at the pool, race lines hardened even further, resulting in riots and racial segregation."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
"This was a fight not just for the right of access but for the right of recreation, of leisure, no matter what your skin color. Many activists saw pools and beaches as the ultimate symbols of that freedom. In the mingling of bodies, in the act of sharing the same water with others, you can read volumes."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
"Black children drown at a rate five times that of white children. And as with so many other things, money also has a heavy hand in the way swimmers are made: in the United States, nearly 80 percent of children in families with a household income of less than fifty thousand dollars have no or low swimming ability."
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― Why We Swim
"The original prohibitions at public pools were put in place in fear of this very thing: people of different races, genders, and backgrounds mixing together."
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― Why We Swim
"(When I ask one swimmer, a middle-aged woman named Kate, how she'd characterize the two clubs, she confides that the Dolphin Club is "like living with your parents—we're more conservative. The South End is like the frat house. They're more risky." Standing next to Kate is her friend, a South Ender, who laughs appreciatively at this.)"
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― Why We Swim
"Learning to swim meant learning how to relinquish control, to thrive in a space of uncertainty."
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― Why We Swim
"The water is the last place where people cannot text, call or find me," she says with a giggle."
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― Why We Swim
"It's an exercise in thresholds. How much I can take, how much distance I need, how far I can get from shore before I feel afraid, at what point I desire to return to land. I brew and brood over things that seem to be of consequence, but by the end of a swim, the water has washed much of that away."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
"It's a reminder to slow up and be awake to the real connections we have while we have them."
― Why We Swim
― Why We Swim
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