Learning to swim

Category: Swimming

Everyone knows that swimming has a great curative effect on the entire body of the child and is a powerful tool for hardening. In addition, the ability to swim - a vital skill. The family should be able to swim all, the child can begin learning how to swim to a year, and in 1-2 years in a home bath. With the right approach, children quickly become accustomed to the water, willingly play in the bath, and then easily transferred to bathe in the open water.

But do not be afraid if the parents for whatever reason could not teach a child to swim at the age of 3 years. Swimming training can begin at the age of 3-5 years, especially since at this age child is psychologically ready for meaningful learning.

First of all, you need to teach the child to breathe under water and inhale the water, then teach the child to dive into the water, holding her breath, then dive and float. Then the child can be taught to swim sporting ways (breaststroke, crawl, etc.).

Starting swimming at a water temperature should not below 18 0 C. The time spent in the water gradually increased from 5-7 minutes to 20-25 minutes, and the length of floats segments from 20-25 meters to 75-100 meters. We can not allow strong supercooling of the child. Before sailing to do complex general developmental exercises involving major muscle groups. These exercises include:

• walking, running underneath the movements with his hands;
• tilt, swivel, squat;
• bending and unbending hand to go;
• a circular motion with his hands, with a gradual increase in amplitude;
• circular rotation of the torso in the shoulder, knee, hip and ankle joints;
• an imitation of movements of hands and feet when swimming way "crawl".

Swimming lessons begin with a "get acquainted with the water". All exercises begin at a shallow place, and only toward the coast. We choose a place with a flat sandy bottom, with no holes. Greatest depth of training locations - on the chest of the child. The first lesson in the water can not be delayed more than 10-15 minutes (open water).

The sequence of learning is as follows: you must first obtain a correct body position during sliding on the water, then begin to study the movement of the legs when swimming the crawl (on the site, with the board, in the slip), and after fixing skills, movement of the feet turn to learning the stroke arm, the final stage is to develop and consolidate skills coordinated movements of the hands and feet, with proper breathing. In each of the exercises should include breathing exercises trainees.