My experience with learning to swim
Swimming is one of the most famous types of sports that have been practiced since childhood. Swimming is a very enjoyable and beneficial sport. It is an exercise for all the muscles of the body that provides the body with activity and vitality, in addition to helping to maintain the health and safety of the body. Many people have had different experiences with swimming, including:
- One person says that he was exposed to a crisis and psychological problems at a certain period of his life, which led to depression and stress in addition to noticeable weight gain, and a lack of desire to go anywhere or try anything. The psychiatrist once advised me to practice swimming and commit to it at least twice a week, and swimming will change the psychological state. Indeed, I committed to swimming exercises twice a week, and with the first and second time I felt an improvement and a strange energy and activity flowing through the body. Over time, the psychological state improved significantly and noticeably, in addition to the fact that swimming helped greatly in burning fat and reducing excess weight. That person added that swimming was one of the best exercises that he had done throughout his life and he would not give up practicing it.
- One of the girls says that since she was young she wished to learn swimming and she was not given any opportunity to learn swimming for a long period of her childhood, in addition to the fact that no one encouraged her to learn swimming, until she got a little older and was still afraid of swimming and could not take that step, until she reached university age and decided at that time to forget the fear and learn to swim and indeed she decided to go down into the water and began to progress more and more until she was able to use all her limbs in the water with ease and the matter became not complicated, and although this girl was a beginner in swimming, she is improving quickly with time and this helps her to feel happy in addition to feeling energy and activity in the body.
- One of the women who had a unique experience with swimming says that after getting married and having children, she felt unable to do any exercises, which made her feel overweight and had an uncomfortable body shape, in addition to lacking self-confidence, until a friend advised her to practice swimming exercises at least once or twice a week. Indeed, that woman tried to organize her daily appointments and choose a morning time to practice swimming, and she committed to that for a period of time until she felt a complete change in the shape of her body, which became more harmonious, in addition to feeling active and constantly energetic in the body.
Benefits of Swimming
Swimming is one of the types of sports that provides the human body with many different benefits, and many specialist doctors recommend practicing it to help solve many health problems and maintain the body's health and protect it from diseases. Among the benefits that swimming provides to the human body:
Improving lung capacity
Many specialist doctors recommend swimming to help improve lung health and treat any problems that may affect the lungs.
- Especially swimming, which requires staying underwater for a long time, helps improve lung health.
- In addition, swimming helps the lungs respond to all the variables around them and protects them from any type of disease.
A person needs a period of time in which he practices swimming continuously and regularly to help improve health as required, in addition to the fact that lung improvement is gradual and not all at once.
Reducing back pain
- Some people suffer from back problems that lead to severe pain and pressure on the back, and in this case, some specialist doctors recommend swimming.
- This is because swimming helps greatly in relieving back pain and pressure that a person feels on the back, and with continuity, these pains and pressures will go away.
Sometimes swimming temporarily relieves back pain during the swimming period and after a short period of time, and then the person feels that pain again, so it is a temporary way to relieve back pain, but it is very comfortable.
Increase and strengthen muscle mass
Practicing swimming improves the health of the body in many ways, as it helps increase muscle mass in the body in addition to strengthening it significantly.
Swimming helps increase muscle mass, especially in the shoulder and leg area, because they are the muscles that move the most and exert great effort to resist water.
In addition to its significant and noticeable role in strengthening the rest of the body's muscles and increasing muscle mass in different parts of the body, it is one of the most beneficial exercises for the body's muscles.
Swimming has many different benefits for the human body, so it is one of the first sports options that doctors recommend to all patients and non-patients to improve health and relieve pain. Some other benefits that swimming has on the body:
- Resisting aging.
- Improving joint function.
- Reducing excess weight.
- Treating all psychological problems and improving mood.
Types of Swimming
There are many types of swimming that a person can practice any of these types and benefit from its many benefits to the body, including the types of swimming:
Breaststroke swimming
- It is one of the types of swimming that is very beneficial to the body, and breaststroke swimming relies heavily on the arms and legs.
- Where the water is hit by the arms and pulled back, and this helps the body to move forward, in addition to moving the body up and down during practice.
- Then the water is kicked with the legs, helping the body to move forward, while maintaining complete breathing while hitting the water, especially with the arm.
Breaststroke swimming is practiced for 30 minutes, helping to burn 200 calories in addition to improving the health of the body's muscles due to their sufficient movement in the water, including the chest muscles, hamstrings, thigh muscles and arms.
Butterfly
Butterfly is considered one of the most difficult types of swimming underwater, so beginners cannot do it, you must be well able to swim and then do this type.
This type of swimming requires great physical strength, because it requires moving the legs together with a strong kick called the "dolphin kick".
Then move the arms together, which helps to move the water forcefully down and back, thus pushing the body forward through the water.
In this type, you must adhere to bending the knees slightly and keeping them together, in addition to pulling the water with the hands backwards, and facing the palms outward while pressing down.
Finally, move the arms forward above the water to complete the single stroke that helps move in the water, and the body begins to breathe at the end of the arm stroke.
This type helps burn a large number of calories, up to 450 calories in 30 minutes of practicing the butterfly type.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take to learn to swim ?
Trainers train swimming for all ages, adults and children, and adults need about 20 hours to learn to swim well and proficiently, while older people may need a few months to enable them to swim well and acquire sufficient skills.
Is learning to swim difficult ?
Learning to swim is easy and simple. It only requires precision, skill, and practice to help you acquire the sufficient skills that enable you to swim correctly.