9 Ways to Prepare for Your First Adult Swimming Lessons

2024 Author: Samantha Chapman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 09:13

The challenge in teaching adults to swim lies in the fact that they may refuse to perform exercises in which they feel they have difficulty. Many instructors teach adults the same way they teach children. However, mature people have some more advantages over boys, as they understand abstract concepts and have well-developed motor skills. By eliminating all hesitation, they learn quickly. Swimming is like dancing. It is just a matter of knowing the correct movements. You will need to use attitudes and postures that will make you appreciate what you are doing. Learn the movements of swimming and improve your spirit before taking lessons. And above all, you can do a lot out of the water, in a simple tub or whirlpool.

Steps

Method 1 of 9: Learn to Breathe While You Swim

Step 1. Buy a pair of good swimming goggles

Nothing ruins a quick swim more than water in the eyes.

• Take them so that they fit you well in the eye area. They must not cover the nose and mouth.

  

Step 2. Stay in the shower or sit in the tub where the water is low and try them out

Usually, you need to adjust a pair of straps and adjust them on the face to stop any water ingress.

Step 3. Get in the habit of putting your face in the water with goggles

• It drives the air out of the mouth and nose. For the most part, you will inhale and exhale through your mouth.

  

• Learn how to inhale with your mouth closed on the surface of the water. It will take time and application.

  

• Breathe out with your nose just enough to keep the water out. Getting it up through the nose is like swallowing horseradish. Buy a nose clip for the pool if you're having trouble.

  

• Over time he learns to count to ten with his face underwater and slowly drives the air out of his mouth. The exhalation must take place while the mouth is in the water.

  

• Relax as you raise your head to catch your breath with the rest of your face in the water. Don't worry, it's not like dying. You can also find that you can do it, keeping a little water in your mouth. Just spit it out … like dolphins, we have a system in our body that allows us to prevent water from entering the lungs.

  

Method 2 of 9: Learn to stay on the surface

It is important to relax when swimming. When breathing, body position and movement mechanisms are done properly, you can relax easily.

Step 1. A Bit of Culture on Water

Fill a cup of water and float a sewing needle on the surface. The needle will only be able to float if it has been gently placed sideways. This principle applies to the needle, but also to people and boats, because the drops of water attract each other. They join together if the object does not weigh too much in proportion to the water surface it moves. Ask Archimedes! This is the reason why the needle floats sideways and sinks first at the end

Step 2. Learn to balance your body weight on the maximum surface, so that the water makes you float like a ship

Remember what happens to a needle when the end first ends up at the bottom of the cup. Without proper body control, the feet will act as the end of the needle!

• Start on the bed, pretending to be in the water. Imagine your body as a swing. You can do this because the center of buoyancy, which is the point on the body that stays afloat, and the center of gravity, which is the point on the body that pulls you down, are very close to each other. The buoyancy center is located at chest height thanks to the air in the lungs. The center of gravity is located on the hips, which act on the feet in the same way that the tip of the needle sinks when trying to stay afloat.
• To perform a swinging, balanced movement while swimming, look down, stretch your arms forward, like Superman does when flying, and kick. All but two styles have at least one arm extended in front of the face to maintain correct body position. To return to a vertical position, raise your head, stop kicking and exhale. The force of gravity will prevail.

Step 3. Train on the Bed or the Floor

• Rotate your body slightly from side to side and also turn your head sideways to breathe. To exhale, bring your mouth down. Flip over on your back to float or swim on your back. Move your arms sideways and bring your hands into the water, with your palm facing down, keeping them away from your hips.
• Continuing, move your legs up and down quickly, as if they were a pair of scissors. This is the fundamental movement for swimming both back and back. As you do this, flex your knees. Practice scissoring your legs on a chair, keeping them a little flexed and with your toes straight. By lifting your legs and hips in this way, you will keep yourself straight on the surface of the water. The swing of movements in the water must be balanced.

Method 3 of 9: Feel the water to be able to move

In swimming this movement is called "rowing". It is a rhythm of hands and arms that allows you to stay on the surface and move whenever you want. When you're in the bath, try paddling a few times!

Step 1. Start from a seated position and move your hands sideways up and down

Try to feel the resistance opposed by the water. If you push down, the body moves up. If you push to the side, the body turns. If you push back, you go forward. Familiarize yourself with these movements so that you feel ready when you are in the water without any support. This is the "romantic" part of the relationship you will have with water.

Method 4 of 9: Learn the Styles

Step 1. You can perform the styles lying on a bench

This is the fundamental arm movement you will need to practice. All movements are similar underwater and must be performed correctly to avoid any injury caused by wrong swimming activity. Training on the bench press works really effectively. When continuing with your swimming lessons, move your arms and legs like this or bend your torso in front of a mirror. It will help the coordination of the mind with the body, since you will not be able to see yourself when you are in the water. Instead, try to feel and sense how you move. This will be the moment when your story with water will begin.

Method 5 of 9: Prepare to Get Wet

Step 1. Get a suitable bathing suit

Forget skimpy bikinis or knee-length shorts.

Step 2. Use the headset

Long hair is to the cap like milk is to cookies. If you don't like hair in milk, then keep it out of the pool.

Step 3. Don't forget to bring and use goggles

Method 6 of 9: Learn to Love Water

Step 1. Begin to move into the water a little deeper, where you can still stand with your head out

Step 2. Stay on the edge of the pool and start going up and down in the water, breathing with your mouth when you are outside and exhaling when you are below

Always exhale with your mouth when you are underwater.

Step 3. When ready, move away from the edge of the pool

Push yourself with your feet to get back up. Row and kick to stay afloat.

Step 4. In a place where it is easy to stand up straight, give a push to balance the position of the body, kick a few minutes, put your face in the water and row a little, standing vertically

Step 5. Play in the water

Relax and stay in control, then try to make larger movements. Get used to having your face in the water and your body stretched out. It is advisable to become familiar with using a tool that helps you stay afloat and eliminate any fear of going underwater. You can also swim a little below before going back up. It's all about relaxing and making use of your skills which will then improve. It will take some time and a couple of months of intensive training. Don't be discouraged. Everyone goes through these stages. Your first reaction in the water should be to lie on the surface, paddle, kick, breathe and stay relaxed. Don't try to climb an invisible ladder.

Method 7 of 9: Buy Freedom of Movement

Step 1. Hold a tablet or rubber tube, stretching your chin in the water and kicking

Do 5-10 meters in this way, exhaling with your face in the water, where the water is shallow and you can stay. Once you have been able to gain confidence while staying on the surface, going to areas where you don't touch will not be a problem, because you will always remain afloat. It would be ideal if you could do it without any buoyancy support.

Step 2. Now, with your arms outstretched in front of you paddling to move forward, take a few breaths of air

Step 3. Then, turn on your back by kicking and rowing with your arms at your sides

Stay on the surface without moving. Float, relaxing and trying to stay that way for about 30 seconds. In this way, you will feel that you are acquiring control and well-being in the water.

It is ideal to learn to float before your back. Upside down, floating on your back instead of facing the water. It is the preparation for the actual lessons. Don't overdo it and don't expect big results. Improving takes time

Method 8 of 9: Refine the Movements

To float straight in deep water, you'll need to have your face out, your hands rowing and your feet kicking. Remember the needle when you try to do it without being able to kick and row properly.

Step 1. Use a water exercise machine or belt with floats around your waist as you try to improve your skills

It's a great way to train, even after you've learned to swim. You can do this while floating straight with the belt fastened.

Step 2. Move your hand down and back with one arm at a time

At the beginning it only moves the arm 45 degrees with respect to the surface. Stop your hand, raise your elbow, and bring your hand back to the surface. This is the movement to do when you are actually swimming.

Method 9 of 9: Welcome to the Water World

You are now ready to start your first swimming lesson. Try to overcome anxiety and understand what the goals are to improve your skills, so that you can implement the fundamental things that will be taught to you.

Step 1. Take the course, trusting in your abilities, and you will succeed in your intent

Step 2. Have fun

Knowing how to swim opens up a new world of sports to try and benefit from. Just remember that water is not always a friend. Respect must be given to her. Do what you have learned carefully.

Advice

• Breathing properly is the hardest part when trying to acquire a positive attitude in the water.
• People who panic in the water seem to climb an invisible ladder to try to stay afloat. The head goes up and the feet down. They slap in the water with their hands and forget to breathe. The essential point, when learning to swim, is to understand to use water, not to fight it.
• The amount of oxygen needed for swimming is the same as for walking. There is no need to take great breaths of air. It is enough to have the same rhythm in breathing used every day. Going underwater and going back into the pool, in a normal tub or whirlpool, in a lake, in the ocean or when for fun you grab the apple with your teeth in a tub full of water is always good for training your breathing.
• The alignment of the body on the surface of the water is the most important element for swimming correctly. Without it, you will consume a lot more energy. Water is a context in which you will not be able to win, no matter how strong you are. This is why it is so important to put your face underwater. Inhale while the mouth is just above the surface maintains the important alignment of the body. Always remember the needle experiment.
• Being able to swim every day accelerates learning.
• Consider using a float tool. There are four types of shapes. Make sure it's foam and non-inflatable.