Kids Swimming Lessons: When to Breathe

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In this section, I'll be talking about step number thirteen. It's a little bit of a piggy back on step number twelve, but now you're actually going to give em' a count, and what I mean by a count is you want to tell them every three strokes, or every five strokes, or every seven strokes you want them to take a breath. And when they take a breath, always explain to them never lift their head up in the front. To you it may seem like, oh wow, you know, that's great, you know, they're learning, but it's not good, cause' a couple of things; they'll injure their neck. Every time they go up they're going to have problems, as well as that's not the correct way of learning how to swim. You definitely want to make sure that they conquer the whole twisting their head side to side, and taking a breath. So now that they've learned that correctly and properly, and they take their face from the floating position and they just do a nice slight little twist from one side, take a quick breath, put their head in the water; then do the same on the other side. Now you want to make sure that they do the stroke, so it's always on the odd count, so it's three, five, seven. So you go one, two, three, breathe; one, two, three, breathe; one, two, three, breathe. They never breathe on the same side. That's one thing you want to explain to whomever you're teaching. Don't ever, ever, ever breathe on the same side. I used to have it where, you know, it looked great, cause' kids were at least, you know, doing the strokes and swimming, but then that sticks with them, and if they're swimming on the same, breathing on the same side, they're going to end up having neck problems, and you don't want them to have that. And they're going to tire quicker, and it's actually a hazard in the pool, and that's going to possibly lead to, you know, some type of drowning, so you don't want to do that. In this section, when you do the swimming with your arms, you can do it by steps; you can do it three, five, or seven, so you just go one, two, three, breathe; one, two, three, breathe, or you can do it by fives as well.

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