Swimming
Learning to swim can be intimidating and even embarrassing for some adults. If you are tired of sunning on the shore while your friends play in the refreshing water, it's time to swallow your pride, conquer your fears and learn to swim.
Considering the number of accidental drownings and near-drownings involving young children every year, swimming lessons may be one of the best things parents can provide for their children. The key is to teach very young children not to fear the water, and older children how to improve their stamina and confidence..
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Tips for Adult Beginners
- Relax and realize you're not alone. Thousands of adults cannot swim. Many are aquaphobic and dread even the thought of getting into a pool.
- Enrol in an adult swimming class in your area. Some basic or beginning classes for adults serve as refresher courses for those who want to strengthen their basic strokes. Call the facility where you want to take classes to make sure they can meet your needs.
- Sign up for private lessons if you are uncomfortable with the idea of learning to swim in a group. Individual lessons may cost more, but setting your mind at ease is worth the extra expense.
- Look for a program that focuses on the physical and psychological components of learning to swim. Some programs incorporate water based relaxation techniques into adult swim instruction.
- Buy swim equipment at your local sports and fitness retailer. Depending on your sensitivity to chlorine and your and level of trepidation about inhaling water, you may want to purchase goggles and a nose clip.
- Maintain self confidence and be patient with yourself. Learning to swim is difficult and may not come to you as easily as you would like. With time and hard work you will get the hang of it.
Prepare your child for swimming lessons. Tips for parents…
- Hold the child beneath the armpits and walk him around in the water to develop a feeling of comfort in an aquatic environment. Smile and talk to demonstrate that this new place is fun and interesting.
- Get the child to kick his legs. Have him hold onto the side of the pool so you can guide his legs. Then do it with your hands beneath his armpits to develop the feeling of motion. With older children, use a kickboard.
- Blow bubbles in the water with the child as he kicks to get him used to putting his face in the water. Gradually begin dunking him down to practice holding his breath. Accompany the child underwater and play underwater games to get him to open his eyes.
- Support the child around his waist or chest and begin having him stroke with his arms. Demonstrate the motion yourself, and then guide the child's arms. Then let him do it on his own while you support him in the water. Have him keep kicking.
- Have the child swim a short distance from the wall to you. Begin at a very short distance, so that he can almost jump the span at first. Gradually increase the distance.
- Demonstrate to the child how to breathe by lifting or turning his head as the distance from you to him gets far enough to necessitate this.
- Instruct the child to jump into the pool from the side with you there to catch him at first, and then increase the distance so that he must jump and swim.
