Research Status On College Students In Nantong Participating In Swimming Exercise

Swimming is one of an easy-learned and easy-to-spread sports, which is popular with college students. Swimming is reputed as the most popular and fashion sports in21century. Mastering swimming skill not only promotes students’ mental and physical health, but also can steel their will and promote their intelligent development. What’s more, swimming as a survival skill can avoid deaths from drowning, thus it can prevent the emotional and material damages. So swimming is one of the best ways to have life-long sports.This thesis set college students of Nantong city as research subjects, and applied methods of documentation, investigation, mathematical statistics, logical analysis and so on to research the swimming exercise situation and influencing factors of college students of Nantong city.1000college students from10higher vocational colleges of Nantong are investigated.Investigation results as follows:1. Seven of the ten higher vocational colleges of Nantong have swimming pools.2.The investigation results indicate that about40.9%research subjects love swimming, which shows that swimming is popular with college students.3.The aims of participating in swimming exercise are clear:(1) to learn a survival skill and expand the interpersonal circle(2) to take exercise and release academic exercise4.Because of sex difference and kinetic characteristic, there are more male students than female students to participate in swimming exercise. Males are67.1%and females are32.9%.5.Analysing from the swimming strokes, the college students who master breaststroke are in the majority, free stroke and butterfly stroke taking the following place in order. About193research subjects master two kinds of swimming strokes, which illustrates that Nantong college students have diversity trends in swimming strokes.6.The way of Nantong college students participating in swimming exercise is based on physical education classes(optional course) and swimming clubs.7.The frequency and time of college students’ participating in swimming exercise are generally low.8.The college students who participate in swimming exercise are in group, and few of them are in person.8.The consume level of swimming in Nantong is so high that most of the college students who love swimming bear a heavy load.Accepting the motivation of swimming is the most important factor that promotes every swimmer to keep up swimming exercise. The main negative reasons that affect college students to participate in swimming exercise contribute to the lack of exploitation and utilization of swimming pools and management systems. The author believes that how to deal with the problems listed above needs the care of every physical educator.