How to learn to swim yourself

Many people have a fear that water will do harm. Yes, it can, but only when you do not follow the rules of behavior on the water. Let's most importantly - Do not sink your neighbor, even if you play water games. He can answer the same, so youeasily find yourself under water. And this is unacceptable if you are a beginner swimmer. It is better to learn to dive underwater, because stress is not the best companion of someone who wants to learn how to swim on their own.

Consider a few simple steps that you will have to perform in order to learn how to swim on your own. Remember that swimming is useful both for health and for a beautiful body.

To begin with, stock up the sunglasses to swimthe water did not irritate the eyes. In general, it is better to start swimming in the pool, but if there is no such possibility or you are not afraid of skewed views on the beach, then you can safely go with friends to rest and devote a couple of hours of training. Find a place where the water level will be to your waist. This is enough to learn to dive and stay on the water. You can find a place deeper, but only the water level should not be above the chest.

Dive with your head under the water and hold in this position for 5-10 seconds. Then repeat the exercise 5 more times. This is to ensure that you understand that there is no one under water and that there is nothing terrible in diving either. If you suddenly become scared, then every time you can come up.

Hold your breath, bend your legs, grab them with your hands and press them to your stomach. Look at the bottom. Due to the fact that your lungs are full of air, you will stay on the water. Repeat the exercise 5 times. While there is a lot of air in your lungs, you will stay on the water and not sink.

Now get straight, concentrate. Deeply inhale and push away from the bottom, straightening the body and keeping straight arms straight above your head. The palms should touch each other lightly. To look it is necessary forward on hands or on a bottom. The legs must be straight. This exercise is called "log". If you did everything right, then you must slide on the water, just like a log. Repeat this exercise 10 times. When you are already a little familiar with this exercise, you should plug your legs into work. Start all as always, but after a few seconds after sliding start moving your legs: the left foot slightly lifts up, bending at the knee, and the right one is lowered exactly down. Then immediately on the contrary, quickly lifting the right and lowering the left leg.

After doing such exercises it is time to swim for real. To work connect and hands. So, we do what was before, only we begin with the right hand to outline a semicircle in water, bringing it to the thigh. Then immediately begin work with your left hand. Fingers must be assembled together, and the arm is slightly bent at the elbow. When the right hand is near the hip, we take the hand out of the water and carry it forward without straining. When you carry your hand forward, perform a similar stroke under the water with your left hand. Next, alternate strokes, controlling the palm and bent elbow. Yes, at first it will not work out ideally. First you need to learn to coordinate the movements of the hands and feet, so that the body smoothly walked on the water. To increase the effect of strokes, one can practice by hands: to become firmly on the bottom, and to perform exercises by hands.

Now you need to learn breathe properly while swimming. When you do the third stroke, then duringtransferring hands through the air, turn your head to the right and take a short breath, then turn your head to the left and make the fourth stroke. Exhalation should not be done at the same time as the inhalation. It is done during the second stroke after inhalation. Lips make a tube and exhale into the water. Breathing is better to practice while standing on the water.