How to To Swim for Fitness
Everyone should learn to swim if at all possible. Swimming both returns you to the womb, and frees you. Psychiatrists say that endorphins freed during exertion brought on by swimming is more healing than from running or biking.
Before you actually learn to swim, you need the equipment. Swimming is one of those sports that is not comfortable unless you have the goggles at least, mostly because of the chlorinated pools and the way they can irritate your eyes. Buy a good set of goggles, or the larger goggles that look more like diving masks, whatever is comfortable and keeps the water out.
Find a pool, such as in a local high school or a gym, and sign up for either private lessons, or group lessons. Obviously group lessons are cheaper. If you are a complete beginner, just getting the basics will include learning to float on front and back, to kick, and to manage to get across a length of pool. This will take a couple of lessons, but once you do it, there's nothing stopping you from going further.As soon as you can make your way across a pool and back, this is called a lap, and it means you're ready to do laps. So you've done one lap. If you can do one, you can do two. You need to build up in order to do more than this, but if you continue, you'll succeed. From one, to two, to three. Try to do laps for 18 minutes. 18 minutes is all you need for aerobic improvement.
Once you've been able to do laps for 18 minutes, you can count how many laps you have accomplished in 18 minutes. Then you'll have your base line. Your goal will be to swim for 1 mile. This is an attainable goal, but as with a lot of goals, you have to build up to it.
Join a Master's group and practice with them whenever you can. This will improve your performance in the water tremendously.
Alternately, just swim for the solitary joy of it.
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