How to learn to swim in 4 steps

Learning to swim , even as an adult, is not difficult. The most difficult part is to be able to overcome the discomfort, or the real fear of water , the fact that we have to move in an unnatural way in an environment that is not familiar to us. And yet being in the water is much less unnatural than with lifeguard course near me.

For example, flying, and all in all it may be enough to be able to break that mistrust that inevitably one has inside when one has not learned to swim as a child., especially as regards floating and being underwater, and then being able to learn to swim alone and even when grown up. Learning to swim is then above all important, either to be able to possibly get by in situations in which you are in the water, which could be more or less dramatic, or because it is a way to challenge your limits and get out of your comfort zone , either because it allows you to do an effective and less traumatic fitness activity for example running, or because you can also enjoy the sea and beach holidays more American lifeguard Association Va.

How to learn to swim

There are essentially 4 preparatory steps for learning to swim . Preparatory in the sense that they come before starting to learn a swimming style between front crawl, or freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. But the first tip is to do all this in a swimming pool , where the water is shallow enough to allow you to "touch", that is, where you can always stand up with your head above the water, and where the water is more transparent than that of many seas, rivers and lakes where it is difficult to see the bottom and there is a little more fear also given by the movement of water and waves.

• Learn to go deep
• Learn to float
• Learn to breathe
• Learn to be underwater

To learn how to swim, go to the bottom

Going to the bottom is the first, fundamental fear of those who cannot swim , and it is a more than legitimate fear as well as the first to be exorcised. In reality, going to the bottom is more difficult than floating, because the human body is made up mostly of water and tissues that would naturally float (after all, although macabre, corpses also float), because with the air in the lungs the body tends naturally to return to the surface , and because according to Archimedes' principle every body would tend to float. It would tend because then fear, panic and anxiety can induce behaviors that prevent you from floating. So the first thing to learn to swim is to learn how to go deep, totally immersing yourself in the water and trying to sit on the bottom of the pool tub. To do this you will have to relax your muscles, let go of the tension, stay in a state of calm that will gradually improve and try and try again several times without getting anxious.

To learn to swim, learn to float

Learning to float seems difficult for those who cannot swim, because water is not our natural environment, because to float we keep the horizontal position which is unnatural and because fear makes us agitated by compromising the buoyancy. To be able to float it is necessary to try both prone and supine, that is belly up and belly down with the face and head in the water, gradually trying to offer the water the greatest surface to allow us to float. Also in this case it is necessary to be relaxed and perceive the sensation of water that pushes our body upwards.

To learn to swim, learn to breathe

Breathing in water is probably the hardest thing when it comes to learning to swim. Everyone, even the great swimmers, make the mistake of breathing hard, with short, fragmented and repeated puffs , and this inevitably leads to retaining carbon dioxide in the lungs and limiting oxygenation. With less oxygen and too much carbon dioxide the brain panics, because it feels that it does not have enough air and this increases the breathlessness generating more excited movements, less lucid, more expensive in terms of energy consumption and which facilitate floating less and less. So, as soon as you understand how to handle diving and floating, it is important to practice taking long breaths with your head out of the water.and practice expelling all the air from your lungs with your head underwater . Once this is understood, it will also be easier to manage your breathing by learning a precise swimming style.

To learn to swim, learn to stay underwater

Yes, that's right, they used to tell us not to keep our heads underwater and to learn to swim with our heads out. But those were the dads of the seventies and instead, once you have learned to manage the fact of going to the bottom, to float and to breathe completely and deeply, then you can begin to move in the water even standing under , or holding under your head, advancing with the movement of arms and legs a little as if you want to pull yourself forward and push you forward as you do in snorkeling . It is not yet swimming in the strict sense, that is, with a defined style, but it is what children do when they struggle to style a certain distance and then instinctively take a deep breath and advance underwater until they have to regain air. .