The ability to swim is very important for an adult - sometimes inability to stay on the water can cost lives. You can learn how to swim properly, as the features of swimming techniques are available to everyone.
How to learn to swim well?
Any person will learn to swim, if he can master the basic skills as best as possible, including correct breathing, the ability to lie on the water on his stomach and back, slide on the surface of the water, open his eyes under water, maintain the desired position of the body and move his arms and legs correctly.
Inhalation during swimming is performed by the mouth with the head raised or turned. Some difficulties for beginners in swimming is to exhale into the water, because it requires effort. Breathing must necessarily be synchronized with the movements of the hands and feet.
To learn how to swim fast, you need to know how to properly work with your feet. The most important rule for almost all styles - socks should be stretched, and movements - fast and sharp. Only when swimming style "breaststroke" legs take a position that looks like a frog.
Important for swimming and proper strokes. In order to swim faster, you need to keep your fingers together, and the main mistake of beginners is that they keep your fingers unclenched.
Another common mistake is that some beginner swimmers try to raise their head higher than required. However, with this position, the legs fall deeper, and the muscles of the arms and shoulders get tired more quickly.
Exercises for those who learn to swim
To master skills of swimming special classes help. Before they start, it is recommended to warm up on land for 10-20 minutes.
- Go into the water, walk around and run in different directions, making the arms stroking (2-3 min.).
- Dive into the water with your head and hold your breath for the maximum time you can (5-7 times).
- Dive into the water and try to breathe out, holding your face in the water (5-7 times).
- Collect air, hold your breath and, grouped, immerse yourself in water. When the water pushes you out, stand on your feet and exhale (4-5 times).
- Lie down on the water on your stomach, stretching your arms in different directions, hold your breath. Then try to swim, pressing your hands to the body and making movements only with your legs (5-6 min.).
- Stand facing the shallows, raise your hands and connect them. Take a deep breath, push off and slide on the water (5-6 min.). After 2-3 days, complicate the exercise by making an exhalation in the water during the slip.
- Go into the water to a depth slightly above the waist, draw in air and hold it, then spread your arms and legs and lay your back on the water (5-7 minutes).
- Repeat exercise number 6, but slide on the water, not on your stomach, but on your back. Try to include the work of the hands and feet (5-7 minutes).
- During sliding on the abdomen, follow the movements with your feet, trying to swim a few meters, then turn on the movements with your hands (5-7 min.).
How to learn to swim underwater?
Learning to swim under water is best in the pool, in its shallow part. Begin training with immersion in the water with the head. Try to open your eyes, do a long continuous exhalation. Note that with the right expiration, there is no sensation of water pouring into the nose.
When you feel free underwater, begin to train the right movements. Push away from the rim and slide in the water, trying to make the minimum amount of movements with your hands and
Difficulties when swimming underwater can arise due to unpleasant sensations caused by water pressure. The lower you dive, the stronger will be the pressure on the eardrums and you may get a headache. To facilitate these sensations , before diving, take a few deep breaths and exhalations. And if you lay your ears - pinch your nose and try to exhale through it.
Learn to swim - this skill will never be superfluous. In addition, swimming stimulates the cardiovascular system, improves the functioning of the respiratory system, strengthens health and helps burn extra pounds.