Start Learning to Swim

I am wondering where to start learning to swim. What is best to concentrate on to start with when you first begin to learn to swim?

As a beginner learning how to swim for the first time, the most important parts to concentrate on will depend mostly on your confidence level.

Some people come with built-in confidence, whereas others come with a complete fear of water and swimming.

For those comfortable in the water and confident, learning how to stop and stand up mid-swim is important. That is, of course, the basics of learning how to kick and pull with the arms.

Adult beginners can choose between learning front crawl or breaststroke; most usually find breaststroke the easiest to start with.

If you fear the water or lack confidence, you must become comfortable with getting your face wet and submerging under the water. The other basics of learning to swim include arm pull and leg kick techniques and stopping and standing mid-swim.

If you lack confidence, you must take each step slowly and gradually, progressing at your own pace and trying out new things only when you are comfortable doing so.

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How Hard Is It To Learn To Swim?

I'm an adult that has avoided swimming for over 30 years. I want to break my fear desperately. How hard is it to learn to swim?

Learning to swim as an adult is not nearly as scary as you think. Breaking your fear of the water or your fear of swimming is a matter of learning how your body behaves in the water and how it feels to be moving about in the water without necessarily swimming at first.

The most obvious thing to do is get yourself some swimming lessons with a qualified swimming instructor, either in a class or one-to-one privately. There are plenty of swimming lessons for adults. Do not be embarrassed or nervous. For every adult that bites the bullet and goes for it, hundreds still wish they could do just that.

If swimming lessons are not for you, then go to the swimming pool with a friend or relative as support. Get into the shallow part of the pool and move about. Walk around, go slightly deeper, maybe up to chest depth and walk about. Get a feel for how your body behaves in the water.

Next is to practice submerging or putting your face into the water, holding your breath, blowing bubbles, and all that stuff. Use some swim goggles if necessary, as they can enhance your confidence.

Once you have become confident with submerging (whilst still standing on the pool floor), your fear of water or swimming is well and truly on the way to being conquered. Learning to swim from there is a piece of cake!

Learn how it feels to lift your feet off the pool floor and float or kick your legs. You can do this holding the poolside or onto your supportive assistant.

Learning to swim a particular swimming stroke, such as breaststroke or front crawl, is just a matter of what to do with your arms and legs. It is learning to deal with floating, submerging and regaining a standing position from swimming that makes a difference to someone with any fear of swimming.

Learn at your own pace. Rome was not built in a day, and everyone learns to swim at different rates. Practice and determination will prevail, and you will soon enjoy one thing you have always wanted to achieve.

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How To Float When Swimming

My body is still not floating on the water? I have just begun to learn to swim.

Do not be put off just because your body does not float. Your ability to float is determined by your body composition. Based on the scientific facts that muscle sinks and fat floats, generally speaking, fat people float well and lean muscular people tend to sink. In other words, some people float and some people do not!

Learning to relax in the water is essential. Relaxed muscles are more likely to float, depending on their density. Tense muscles will nearly always sink.

That does not mean you are not able to keep yourself afloat while you swim. Depending on the stroke you swim, with the correct swimming technique you will remain at the water's surface.

We would encourage you to continue learning to swim and learning to stay afloat will come in time. Download my ebook The Complete Beginners Guide To Swimming. This contains all the tip and tricks you need to know, including how to relax, how to glide, and how to breathe. Click the link below for more information.

How to Float During Swimming?

How to float during swimming?

Floating is dependent upon body fat percentage and relative density. In other words, the shape, size, and composition of your body will determine if you will float and if so how well. Body fat floats and muscle sinks, therefore the ratio of muscle to fat in your body will be the deciding factor in your ability to float.

We are of course talking about floating in a stationary position in the water and your question was about how to float during swimming. All of the above factors will of course help or hinder floatation during swimming but remaining at the surface of the water whilst you swim will depend on your swimming technique. This is particularly true if you have little or low body fat as your body will naturally want to sink and therefore your swimming technique will have to be more efficient.

Momentum and efficiency through the water will greatly assist your body to remain afloat as you swim. Momentum from the propulsion generated from the arms or legs and efficiency from a streamlined body position that enables you to move easily through the water.

If you swim breaststroke then propulsion is generated from a powerful leg kick and efficiency comes from a stretched body position and glide after each leg kick.

If you swim front crawl then the propulsion comes from the arm action and the body moves through the water easily as it remains in a stretched-out and streamlined position.

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