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123 Swimming Lessons

Teach Your Child To Swim!

Get Familiar With Water Learning How To Swim

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Learning How To SwimGet Familiar With The Water Before Learning How To Swim

If you want to get familiar with the water before learning how to swim.

This is article is to help guide you in the right direction of learning how to swim.

Now really you don’t have an actual step by step way of being able to introduce yourself or a child to the water.

The steps that I am personally writing are not the absolute, “do it my way or the highway” steps.

They are steps I would recommend and then you can decide yourself whether you will mix and match and do as you will. LOL.

Tips & Guides

  • Be sure to have the correct swimwear for the introduction of course.

 

  • Goggles (Needed) and a swim cap (If Needed) – Reason I say “Needed” for goggles is that for most beginner swimmers learning how to swim it is a little easier to not have to deal with water in your eyes while getting use to the water. A swim cap is not necessarily a must depending on how much hair you have.

 

  • A flotation device will come in handy for sure. Noodle, kick board, life jacket ect.

 

  • Before entering the pool you may want to check the temperature. It can be extreme shock if the pool is TOO cool.

 

  • Enter the shallow end and begin to walk around to become comfortable with the movement of the water.

 

  • After becoming familiar with the water and the movement of it, try to now blow bubbles with your nose above the water. Start with small bubbles and try to breathe through your nose.

 

  • When you feel confident enough then it is time to submerge your head under the water. (Good little tip is to blow out of your nose when you go under) This is where learning how to swim is a game changer.

 

  • Time to use the flotation device you have or if you do not have a flotation device you can use the wall. I do recommend AT ALL TIMES BE CLOSE TO THE WALL. Try floating on your back as shown in this VIDEO.

These bullet points are to get you familiar with the water so that you can first overcome the fear of water or swimming lessons.

How to learn to swim for beginners is just like anything else, it needs repetition.

Try to use these steps 2 – 3 times a week if possible.

You will be learning how to swim in no time!!

Benefits of Swimming & Swim Lessons

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Benefits of Swimming & Swim Lessons

What are some of the benefits of swimming & swim lessons?

Swimming is a fun, exciting, healthy & low impact activity.

It has many physical benefits of course but it also has its mental health benefits.

Swimmingbenefits of swimming lessons for babies is an activity for all ages & is enjoyed without even knowing that you are getting in a great workout.

How Is Swimming/Swimming Lessons Good For You?

First thing that always comes to mind is FUN. LOL.

When swimming or learning to swim you have a life skill that not everyone can do.

One of the benefits of swimming lessons is its a very low impact sport so the chance of injury is much lower.

I never can say that you can’t get injured but you will be more inclined to being sore from working out & not even knowing it.

Some more benefits of swimming provides you with a cardiovascular workout as well as a full upper body workout, such as arms, shoulders back as well as kicking for lower leg workout.

It has been known to help with asthma also, however if you are asthmatic please check with your doctor before really jumping into any long swim activity.

What Age Should My Child Learn To Swim?

Now no one can tell you what age you need to start your child swimming, but the guidelines for such a thing are a little bit all over.

I am from Australia originally so I looked at the (ASCTA) Australian Swimming Coaches & Teachers Association and they recommend infants can start at 4 months of age.

benefits of swimming

I will not lie I started my children at 3 months for 1 time out of the week. 3 to 4 months will give enough time for your child to build a strong enough immune system for strength & bond.

At this age infants can get so many benefits of swimming & learn to swim.

When I say swim I do mean learning how to be confident and familiar with the water.

Learning to swim is again a life skill in itself.

Your child will start off by learning how to hold their breath & closing their eyes.

They will learn to kick their feet & can also become so comfortable with water that gliding is easily picked up.

Now I never say never but obviously at this age they will not be swimming by themselves very much. LOL. Either way keep up with it because repetition is key.

Eating Before Swimming!

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Eating Before Swimming! How Long Should You Wait?

How many times have you stopped your child from eating before swimming?

Or stopped them from getting into the pool when eating before swimming?

How long should we wait until we enter the pool or water after eating?

What will it cause if you eat and enter straight away?

LOL. Here to teEating before swimmingll you right now there is no absolute answer to both of those of those questions

Most adults really don’t want to go straight into activity after a meal or light snack, but children on the other hand they love to get straight back to it.

My 2 boys are eating on the go a lot so I always have made sure that vegetables were something that we just ate as a snack and for dinner.

I never made it “DIFFERENT” for them to even not want to eat them.

We make it a normal everyday snack.

With that being said of course foods like carrots, broccoli, fruit ect. will always be a lot lighter on your childs tummy & getting back in the pool or water will be less waiting time.

The consistent time for most children & adults

The normal amount of time for most parents that we have always heard is 30 min wait for food to settle.

I normally stick to that with meals and 10 – 15 mins for a light snack such as chips, fruit, vegetables ect.

The reason most people say to get your child to wait entering the pool after eating is that your child is working their body a little harder than usual while they are in the water.

Moving around can cause them to be sick in the pool area. Also swallowing pool water right after eating isn’t a very pleasant thing to handle sometimes.

Having your child eat lightly before or while they are swimming and having fun is a way to avoid them from getting sick.

Also having them eat the right digestive foods always helps prevent swimming sickness.

Examples: Fruits, Crackers, Vegies ect.

That way the time that they have to stay out of the pool is much shorter and they stop bugging you while you enjoy the sun and fun.

Remember have fun get wet and NEVER LEAVE YOUR CHILD UNATTENDED!!!

How To Tread Water Using Egg Beater Technique

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Egg Beater Technique

HOW TO TREAD WATER USING EGG BEATER TECHNIQUE

Learning how to tread water can start out very hard and uncomfortable. Although once you get the hang of it you can tread water for long periods on time.

People think that treading water is easy and they could do it forever. Well defiantly so not the case.

Military, fire dept. and police use treading water in there training test workouts and yes 9 times out of 10 they are timed.

So with that being said I will bullet point some points that you need to work on while you are doing your treading training.

So a swimmer treading water using the egg beater technique will be

  1. In a sitting position in the deep end of the pool so your legs will not touch the bottom of the pool.
  2. Bending your knees at about a 90 degree angle.
  3. Having your legs wider than shoulder width apart to balance you.
  4. Kicking your legs towards you in a circular motion at opposite timing. For example: Moving your left leg clockwise and your right leg counterclockwise or vise versa.

If you are just starting out learning how to tread water I advise that you start in the deep end of the pool. Make sure you are close to the edge of the pool, or able to get back to a shallow end quickly.

And of course repetition is key! The more you do it the better you get and the longer you are able to learn how to tread water. Even if you do not decide to use the egg beater technique then make sure you are having fun.

Always remember to pay attention to all signs and pool rules in and around the pool.  And remember stay safe and sunscreen on if you are having fun in the sun.

Simone Manuel Gold In Rio 2016

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Simone Manuel Gold In Rio 2016

Yeewww!!! Simone Manuel black swimmers matter  now ya’ll!!! LOL!!!

It was and is amazing to see U.S.A swimmer Simone Manuel in Rio 2016 get her a GOLD medal tying Canadian Penny Oleksiak in the 100 meter Freestyle.

This just goes to show that the change in thinking of some African American people for swimming has come.

Simone says, “This win hopefully brings hope and change to some of the issues that are going on. My colour just comes with the territory.”

The Expression Of A Gold Medal Winner

See I for one, being black and white learned at a very early age that swimming is something you just have to do.

Its a life skill not just a competitors sport.

Manuel took her love of swimming all the way to Rio and now it has shown that black people can swim and swim very well.

In Conclusion 

A couple of years ago I wrote an article “Black Swimmers, Where Are They?” stating that not all but most predominantly black or minority communities do not have lifetime coaching.

The freedom to commit their lives to the sport, financial support or the access to a training facilities to be able to swim at a competitive level.

I love all sport don’t get me wrong, football, basketball, track & field are in my top 10 sports to play all the time.

I just feel that way to much money and resources are spent on these sports without putting any into a life saving skill for the black community.

If black lives matter then it starts with the activities and things that we do on a day to day bases.

I’m not here to start arguments about what happens in our black communities.

I just want people to notice the black swimmer that learned how to swim and took that to the next level and broke into a sport that is defiantly predominantly “White” sport.

Swimming In The Sun

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Swimming In The Sun

It’s hot & swimming in the sun is happening everywhere in the world.

Everyone loves to be at the beach or at the pool soaking up the sun.

All the kids love to have a lot of fun in the sun.

So this is just a quick reminder on sunscreen & protective items from the blazing sun.

If you remember these 5 steps each time you go to the beach or pool, you can avoid some unwanted pain.

Swimming in the sun magnify’s the UV rays in the water to cause you to burn a bit quicker than normal.

1. Gotta have your SPF in hand.

2. A hat to cover your face.

3. Sunglasses to block your eyes.

4. An umbrella of some sort to stay out of the sun every now and then.

5. And of course LOTS of WATER and LIQUIDS.

Swimming in the sun for a day can be very hazardous on your health and skin, especially on a child.

Try to always remember that children react different to the heat and sun.

You may not know that anything is wrong until it is too late.

If you keep it safe inside & outside of the water you will be fine.

Just keep the little things in mind when your having that summer swimming fun.