Most people delude themselves that you can only learn to swim in childhood. The most important thing is to get rid of the fear of drowning, because it interferes with feeling calmly in the water. You just need to understand that a person will not drown in any way when his chest is full of air. These exercises will help you learn to swim in the shortest possible time.
The first exercise is the Float exercise. Immerse yourself in water about chest-high and inhale deeply. Hold your breath and, squatting down, plunge into the water and put your nose in your knees. Hold for a few seconds in this position, allowing the body to float. Repeat it several times to learn to feel confident in the water.
The second exercise that will help you learn to swim is sliding on the water on your stomach. Also go to the chest in water, inhale and lie on the water so that your face is immersed in it. Next, push off with your feet from the bottom and begin to slide in the direction of the shore, while moving your feet up and down, stretching your socks after pushing off. Once you have learned to slide for a long time, use your hands as you slide as if you were raking water in front of you.
The third exercise will be sliding on the water on your back. Most are afraid that they will drown in this position and lower their legs lower into the water, but it should be understood that it is almost impossible to drown in this position, and when lowering their legs, they simply will not learn the ability to swim on their backs. To perform the exercise, also go into the water, relax, lie on the water pretending that you are lying on an inflatable ring or mattress and try to lie there for a while. When you learn to more or less lie in this position, try to slide to the shore using your hands, without changing position.
By mastering these exercises, you can safely learn to swim, already without fear of water.
A grave mistake is that a person tries to lift his head higher when swimming, so as not to gulp down the water, but this is not the case. So only the neck will get tired and the body will not lie completely parallel to the water, which is not an unimportant factor in training. You should lower your chin into the water. In this position, you can swim a long distance and your neck will not get tired.
You should do the training under the supervision of people who already know how to swim, and also do not swim in cold water, because if the muscles are cramped, then no skill will help you.
