is a time spent for activities not related to work and done for enjoyment and relaxation to feel refreshed
Leisure is an essential part of human life
Recreational Activities
is a broad term used for activities done in or on the water. Among these are many lifelong and competitive activities such as fitness swimming, water aerobics, synchronized swimming, kayaking etc.
Aquatics
is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one’s entire body to move through water.
Swimming
is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley.
Competitive swimming
is the use of a kayak for moving across water.
Kayaking
is a low-to-the-water, canoe-like boat in which the paddler sits facing forward, legs in front, using a double-bladed paddle to pull front-to-back on one side and then the other in rotation.
Kayak
is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped breathing tube called a snorkel, and usually swim fins. In cooler waters, a wetsuit may also be worn.
Snorkelling
is the performance
of aerobic exercise in water such as in a swimming pool.
Done mostly vertically and without swimming typically in waist deep or deeper water, it is a type of resistance training.is a form of aerobic exercise that requires water-immersed participants
Water aerobics
While water- based recreational activities bring substantial health and mental benefits, they also pose serious hazards and health risks.
Recreational Activity
The World Health Organization
categorized these hazards into:
Physical
Microbial
Chemical
Public swimming pools can present several physical hazards for users and workers. These include:
drowning near-drowning, fall impact injuries, and injuries resulting from improperly designed and poorly maintained water circulation systems.
The WHO estimates 372,000 people worldwide die annually due to drowning.
Physical Hazards
The risk of illness or infection associated with swimming pools, spas and similar recreational-water environments has been linked to contamination of the water.
Bacteria can also be shared from users and transmitted via contaminated water in pools or spas.
Microbial Hazards
There are three main routes of exposure to chemicals in swimming pools and similar environments:
direct ingestion of water
inhalation of volatile or aerosolized solutes
dermal contact and absorption through the skin
urine; sweat; dirt; lotions (sunscreen, cosmetics, soap residues, etc.)
Chemical hazards
- is the sport of riding waves in an upright or prone position.
Surfing
catch ocean, river, or man-made waves, and glide across the surface of the water until the wave breaks and loses its energy.
Surfers
The ____ estimates ________ people worldwide die annually due to drowning.
WHO
372,000
The Philippines over _____ islands boast of beaches, lakes, rivers. and other natural water forms
7641
everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay
Article 24 of the universal declaration of human rights
