Even excellent swimmers always need to wear a safety jacket, when boating, do not compromise. Wear a very professional jacket they are usually made of canvas and often times orange in color. Now learning to swim as a child, or an adult has been proven that age does not mater. What we are doing while teaching people how to swim is getting them adaptable to being in an aquatic enviornment. We are wiring people to the swimming modality. People that are coming into the swim classes in NYC with other work outs they have been doing need to first feel the water from a tactile perspective, understand that moving the water has cause and effect, as well as propulsion, and then adapting the muscles to cope with a large range of activities, from being able to support the body weight while floating in the water during long periods and combining that with treading water and to be able to cope with deep water.
Eplosive movements in response to an unexpected threat are reactionary and do not make the water do what you need it to do. So one really needs to learn how to swim with a proper instructor. If a person does not know how to swim having a fear of water is appropriate, but if the fear is coupled with a phobia we need to work through scenarios of reality versus extreme predispositioned reactions to fear of water. As swimming instructors we teach with baby steps, to break down the process to understand the properties of water along with stroke development. Combining all of these things will come into play after the person is able to swim laps with correct form for proper exercise. Swimming is an overall work out where all of the muscles are working at once, and adding the breathing can be a detail that takes extensive practice. I as a swimming instructor, consider the ensemble of movements similar to someone playing a drum set, or doing a dance with different steps, beats and timing.
This is the reasons why swimming lessons with experts for adults and children are important to be taken with instructors that are looking at the discipline factor of doing things correctly.Childrens classes can be as simple as water orientation with stroke development. There is still value in that if a child learns to have fun in the water. This is how a persons muscles can deal with these divergent demands but be memorized from the start with correct habits. We first outline the major energy metabolism pathways in skeletal muscle.
Next we describe metabolic differences between different muscle types, and with swimming correct breathing this oxygenates the muscles. Exhaling is very importantant so that there is a vacuum for the inhale. Coordination performance can be as simple as repeating the movement during the class.Fatigue develops without correct breathing, and we discuss likely underlying mechanisms that cause improper breathing.
Finally, we discuss the ability of muscles to adapt to altered demands, and mechanisms behind these adaptations. This brings us back to be able to swim and have it be an activity you will not forget, make a once and a lifetime investment with swimming classes