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There are only two things that can get me up at the crack of dawn. And since Black Friday is over, I guess I’ll talk about the other: swim practice. Competitive swimming is the coolest sport out there, and you should try it! Seriously, it will be the single greatest thing you do all year.
1. Swimmers have THE greatest tans ever. What girl wouldn’t want a beautiful, even, bronze-y tan that lasts through the winter? Sure, you’ll end up with tan lines, but that’s nothing a good two-piece suit won’t fix (and yes, they make special two-piece suits for competition swimmers).
2. It’s exercise! Like, crazy effective exercise. Talk about burning calories! With one workout, you can burn over 500.
3. You never feel sweaty. One of the things I hate most about working out is that dreadful feeling you get when you are drenched in sweat. In the pool, you totally forget you are sweating at all. And don’t worry about swimming in a sweat-filled pool; the chlorine takes care of that.
4. Swimmers (in general) are very, very attractive. I’m talking from experience here. Tan, athletic, and fit; what’s not to love? There’s a running joke on my team: “we swim because we’re too sexy for a sport that requires clothes.” And for all you Manklers, the girls are equally as attractive.
5. You have no excuse not to swim. Swimming is a very low-impact sport. What this means to you is that you can’t complain about a bad back or a bad knee because swimming puts very little pressure on your joints. Now quit whining and get in the water!
6. Nothing says friendship like spending 10 hours a week half-naked together! You can totally be yourself around your team! I couldn’t imagine a swim meet without someone proposing to the official with a ring pop, being dared to serenade the other team’s coach with nursery rhymes, or even running around the pool draped in toilet paper like a mummy.
7. You can so brag about it! (You know you want to.) How many people can say they swam 100 yards in less than a minute, raced the mile, or swam a 7,000-yard workout in general? That’s right, not many!
8. When the world floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world! Come on, that one is reason in itself to start swimming.
Are you a swimmer? Do you love it?
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