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100
  1. This is the size of the longest swimming pool.  

480 meters long and 75 meters wide, covering 8.9 acres.

30 high knees

100

In the Olympics, the U.S. won every event in the swimming competition in this year.

What is 1948? 


10 active clocks

100

What animals are great swimmers that you would never expect?

What are Kangaroos?


100 jumping jacks

100

This vegetable contains more water than a watermelon.

What is ice burg lettuce?

6 forward and back bear crawls.

100

This is the world record for how many minutes someone has held their breath.

20 minutes

10 cats and dogs

200

Don Schollander was the first swimmer to do this in the 200 meter free.

What is breaking 2 minutes?

15 tri-cept bridges

200

The first swimming goggles were made from this.

What is a tortoise shell.


10 push-ups

200

Elephants are capable of swimming this far each day, using their trunks as natural snorkels. (Snickers)

What is 20 miles?


20 shoulder bridges

200

This object can be compared to a 1/4 cup serving of a food.


What is a golf ball?

15 standing leg lifts to the side on each leg

200

This is the age of the world's youngest internationally competitive swimmer.

What is 10?

In 2015, at the age of 10, Alzain Tareq became the world’s youngest competitive swimmer in a World Championships.

10 lunges on each leg

20 hand leg opposites

300

This sport is known to help reduce stress and depression.

What is swimming?

25 JJ

300

What year did the US boycott the Olympic Games?

What is 1980?

50 high knees

300

Tracy Caulkins is a famous American swimmer.  She is the only American swimmer to ever do this.

Tracy Caulkins is the only swimmer ever, man or woman, to own American records in every stroke. 

10 plank shoulder touches

300

This is another name for dried plums.

What is a prune?


1 minute plank

300

This is how many miles  a competitive swimmer swims in an average day.

What is 6-10 miles?


25 crunches

400

Ian Thorpe became the youngest world champion swimmer in 1998. How old was he?

What is 15 years old?

15 burpees

400

 This is the year an outdoor swimming pool was added to the White House  by President Gerald Ford.

What is 1975.


10 vertical lunges

400

Who was named the male FINA Swimmer of the Year three times from 2010 to 2017?


Who is Ryan Lochte?


10 burpees

400

Half your days calories should come from this group.


What is whole grains?


30 crunches

400

He won an Olympic gold and then went on to be the first Tarzan in the movies.

 Who is Johnny Weissmuller? 


30 squats

500

What color are the lane ropes in a FINA specified pool for the Olympic Games?

Lanes 0 and 9 have a green lane rope. Lanes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8 have a blue lane rope. Lanes 4 and 5 have a yellow lane rope.


30 mountain climbers

500

What year did Russia boycott the Olympic Games?

What is 1984?



50 forward and back jumps

500

Janet Evans had world records in these 3 events.

What is 400 meter, 800meter and 1500 meter freestyle.

20 of your choice-burpees or jumping jack burpees

500

An hour of vigorous swimming can burn off how many calories?

What is 650?

Daily Double:10 burpees x2

500

This is what swimmers do to feel the water better before a big swim meet.

What is shaving?

15 full sit-ups

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