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“Jamaican Swimming Sensation Zaneta football, swimming is more of a breath
Alvaranga Remains Focused on Her Goals” holding sport, which requires aquatic fitness,
which is different from just running on land.
With the beaches now opened, Jamaican age
group swimmer Zaneta Alvaranga is
attempting to keep active by running in her
community and participating in some
resistance exercises to keep her muscles
working. Young Alvaranga tries to resume
her usual morning times with 6:00 am
training in Open Water (Beach) swimming,
As the world continues to come to terms with
which will come in handy post -COVID-19
COVID-19, physical distancing, quarantine
when pools are open and waking up for
restrictions, and "lockdown" has affected us
morning training will still be a part of her
all. For water-based athletes, there is the
circadian rhythm.
additional burden of separation from the field
of play, the unique distinction that sets us The young swimming Phenom said, “I really
apart from athletes engaged in land-based missed swimming and can’t remember a time
sport. that I have not been swimming for such a
long time.” Zaneta has been doing resistance
Swimmers tend to train more than a lot of
and
other athletes in order to maintain their feel
and adaptation for an environment that they bodyweight exercises during the last four
are not created for. Unlike Track and field or months to stay active and keep the different
