Learn to Swim From Scratch

Swimming is a skill we learn and does not come instinctively. Our bodies are tuned to work on land and in water. Senir See, hear and touch in water is very different than we do on land. Learning to swim is going back to birth and learn to make everything from scratch.

Our body learns through repetition. As we repeat our central nervous system (CNS) is recording and creating a memory of these movements. For a child is much easier to learn to swim, yaque his memory is blank and record any found to be less complicated.

On the other hand, adults carry a few more years doing the same movements day after day, these are tattooed on our CNS. To change is very difficult and requires a lot of repetition. We learn to swim is an odyssey.

Many adults, for whatever reason, are afraid of water and have never learned to swim. However, for whatever reason, one day decide to give it a try to the best sport in the world and find that many people in the class or the class is going faster than them etc, etc. The group lessons will have many advantages as social support, monitoring of instructors but also many disadvantages that stagnate your progress.

If you look in a bookstore, I dare say that all books are to perfect swimming style and assume that you know something USTE swimming (if you do not believe me check it for yourself).

This article will give an outline that can be used to master the fear of water and begin their journey to swim like a fish.

As I mentioned before learning to swim is like being born again, and therefore the first thing we learn is to breathe.

I. Breathing

Unlike most sports ground, breathing in swimming is a skill that requires training and practice. Breathing is perhaps the most important skill in the process of adaptation to water. Based on my experience a swimmer can not improve in other aspects of their styles until you master the breathing, but once mastered, the rest comes more easily. This is because swimmers do not have good command of the breath are always stressed by fear of being among water through the nose or get tired very quickly.

This first day will be devoted to work of breathing and learn basic principles of moving in the water. These exercises we practice every day, especially breathing.

Water Exercise 1 water comes out

This exercise is very simple and I recommend it to all those who are still too scared to water.

Objective: To gain confidence.

How: We will enter the water until the level reaches our neck. Open your mouth. Now we bowed our heads until our jaws and sink in a little water. The water should not go beyond the mouth, in short, do not take water. Without closing the mouth, jaw going to get water while letting it fall out of our mouth.

Well well well how to do: This exercise is very calm must do. We will not drink water or to close the mouth when it enters the water.

Assignment: Do this exercise 10 times without interruption.

Exercise 2: Motor

Getting used to have the face in the water it is difficult and stressful for many people. This can be seen clearly in people out of the water that is treated to remove every drop of water on your face with your hands. This, clearly, is a sign of discomfort. The next exercise is a small step to go we will get used to this new feeling of being with the face in the water.

Objective: Go slowly introducing face in the water.

How: We are located on the edge and we cling to it firmly with both hands. We got the chin until the water we cover the lower lip. Once we are immersed blow air through the mouth so that our lips vibrate to produce the sound of an engine.

How to do well well well: The air should be taken by mouth and expelled through the mouth. If you can do if you grab the edge would be much better and a great sign that they are taking confidence.

Dry Swimming: This section presents a series of exercises that you can practice without being in an aquatic facility.

Task 1

With a bowl of water big enough you can practice this exercise at home.

Task 2

This exercise requires a little more confidence. It is to breathe normally with the tip of the nose touching the water surface.

Task 3

In the same vessel will submerge the entire face without exhaling air. I want to set as natural air pressure prevents water from entering the nostrils.

Task: These exercises should be practiced until they feel natural, to the point where they become meditative.

Exercise 3: Bubbles

Breathing has two stages: (1) when we inhale and air and (2) when we exhale and release the air. When we swim we do not always have the face out of water and therefore not always going to be able to take a breath when we want. This forces us to have to develop coordination between inhalation and exhalation, which perhaps is not so vital in land sports. In swimming a lack of coordination between these two can result in water and let's inhale a hard time. This following exercise will help you work this coordination. The breath must be like how they make out of water.

Objective: To learn to inhale and exhale in the water.

How: We will stand in a part of the pool in which we do not feel comfortable. Let's grab the edge with both hands and open your legs to shoulder width. When they feel ready to take air the mouth (the volume of air to be taken should be like a normal breathing), dive, so that the ears stay in the water, exhale and repeat the maneuver.'s breath can begin shortly before face than in the water and can be done with both the mouth and the nose.

How to do it rather well. To do this exercise as a professional is necessary that the two stages of respiration take place on separate media. For example, exhalation should NEVER do out of water. I can not inhale and exhale with the head above water, and for obvious reasons I can not do the inside. This exercise should be done with such ease, that you can devote to thinking about something else.

Dry Swimming: With the same container used in the previous year can do this same exercise.

Task: Getting to 10 cycles of breathing (inhalation and exhalation out of the water in the water) well done.

These exercises are very good to regulate breathing when we are tired and help ease some of that burning sensation you feel when the water is going through the nose. So not part of the list of exercises of the other sections, it is good practice that often (eg at the end of each exercise). You have to practice to the point that it is very natural.

I hope to practice these exercises.

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