Swimming is a wonderful activity, it's an art and one of the best methods to stay fit.
If you want to be good at swimming & if you want to enjoy every bit of a fit,
- Make sure you are keeping your mind free, just don’t think anything, relax!
- Keeping your body free without any pressure and don't tightly hold back your muscles. Loosen yourself.
- There is nothing to fear about water, it’s so friendly and gentle that why you are able to learn and it’s allowing you to learn!
- When you are in deep waters, basically, depth more than your height, and if you are new to swimming, make sure you have a buddy who knows swimming pretty well/ or you are in a place where you or your buddy can reach out for help
- Enjoying every bit of swimming, there is no hurry to learn, and never pressurize yourself mentally! Even if it takes time, it doesn’t matter, practice, practice & practice, you will swim fine soon!
I know by now, you will be in a hurry, and mentally asking me, lets get into action and enough of theory bro!
Okie cool, so let’s enter the swimming lessons.
- Breathing by bubbling: Inhale decent amount of air and bubble it underwater (kneeling down in the pool or just by facing the floor) as exhale strategy repeat this till you feel comfortable with water and neutralize your breathing pattern. Duration
: (2 days - 3 days) - Kicking: Kicking is the initial lesson of swimming, once you master this, you are really half way thru. Kicks should always start from down the hip and not from the knee. Kicks should involve full leg and it should be straight. Never bend your knees more. Hold on to a platform or some rod, align yourself parallel to floor and start kicking. Duration
: (2 days - 4 days) - Pushing: Pushing takes you to distance without much effort, you can really cover 15-20% of the pool if it is done properly. So keep your body against the wall, go down into the water and rise both your legs simultaneously and push against the wall and move forward with that force. Make sure your hands are in a piercing
shape : (2 days - 5 days) - Gliding: This allows you to streamline your body, just push away from the wall, slowly as you rise above the water just maintain that same stance, just continue the motion without any efforts from your side. Make sure the body is straight and keep your hands by overlapping one over another. Duration
: (1 week) - Kicks & streamlining: We are now going to combine above 3 steps, first push away from the way, glide through till you reach the water level, start kicking your legs. Kick should not swing very much, it should fast tap, just a bit over the level of water and same underneath, the kick cycle should be fast. Duration
: (2 days) - Neutralizing breath: Now the major part, now as you would have started propelling forward with the help of the above steps. So the way to neutralize your breath and reducing your heart beat pace is very important for continuing practice. So hold on to the wall, inhale decent amount of oxygen and exhale underneath, do continuous bubbling by instant breathing and exhaling underwater. By doing this for a while, your heart rate will become normal, now continue practicing :) You will run out of your breath in a short distance;
- Since you're new to the water
- You haven’t done much of breath holding before
- Not much or never have done breathing exercises. Duration
: (Regularly) - Front float: This will help you to relax yourself, stand straight, take a deep breath, lay down in the water by starting to bend from your chest level, as your front go down, your lower body will /should
( : (1 day - 2 days) - Back float: This is a crucial survival technique, learn and practice this and you can survive in any deep waters. Similar to front, stand straight, take breath and lay on your back, and as you lay down gradually rise your lower half. Float, and as you are going to end the float, lean backwards a bit and keep your legs down and rise. In deep waters do treading. Survival should be a mix of swimming, treading and back float. Duration
: (1 day - 2 days) - Back float & cycling: Along with the back float, blend cycling into that and you will start propelling and do a slow cycle, it’s a never tiring way of swimming. Cycling should be proper forward
cycling : (1 day) - Intro to freestyle: It’s now you are really going to learn swimming, all others were prerequisites. So freestyle involves movement of all basic body parts, starting from swinging your arms, one by one, turning your neck sideways to breath and adding an additional propelling thrust by kicking legs. Starting with, sweeping your arms underwater, rise your arms and cut through rather than full circular swing, aerodynamic your hands and penetrate the water, now again sweep. Same with the other hand too. As you rise your hand above and bring front and penetrate, a parallel activity can be done, that is swinging your head on the side where hand is
gonna : (1 week) - Treading: It’s just flying in water, swinging your hands like a bird does with its wing. Maintain your head above the water and breath. This is a floating strategy in deep waters. A very critical one for survival too! At first, you may have to put too much of energy, but as you get the knack of that, reduce your flying action speed, else you will tire yourself faster than you think! Duration
: (2-3 days) - Breathing during freestyle: Movement of neck sideways helps you to breathe during freestyle, as to make it more comfortable, there should be a slight movement of the body and a little swing to-fro as you do free style, this will help to rise your neck above the water easily. Duration
: (1 week - 2 weeks) - Mastering freestyle: Practice, practice and practice
. : (Regular practice) - Breast Stroke: This is a smooth and relaxed stroke and this stroke can help you swim miles, literally miles! Starting with pushing, cut your arms at the same time, taking it underneath, and pushing the hands against water and raising your body above the water, inhale, and at the same time do a kick like dolphin kick (Kicking both the legs at the same time by aligning it near by and tilted a bit, forming a conical shape leave a gap in between both leg's toe tips) and take back your head underwater, as you move your arms forward and cut down to push. Continue doing this… Inhale every 2 strokes. For better clarity check YouTube video links. Duration
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These are the basics of swimming. And they have to be practiced till you really get it and till the initial level of satisfaction, for that please follow the duration it's mandatory.
Once you get onto it, into the flow.. You will never stop swimming, it’s like a free flowing river, you will just love it day by day and it keeps going and never stops!
If you have learned swimming by referring this blog and if you are confident enough that you can swim at least 50 meters without stopping and swimming properly. You have finally become an amateur swimmer. Congrats :)
Happy swimming :)
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