How to tread water while swimming? Illustration of treading water skills

Many friends have been learning to swim recently. Beginners should enter the swimming pool and choose the shallow water area. Relax your whole body, choose a random posture, submerge your whole body (except the head) in the water, and feel the buoyancy of the water. Beginners should not be afraid at this time, because we are in the shallow water area and there is no danger of drowning. Feel the buoyancy of water, understand that water is a boost for people to swim, reduce the fear of water, and increase the personal experience of buoyancy. Next, let's see how to tread water when swimming.

Contents of this article

1. How to tread water while swimming

2. Illustration of swimming treading water skills

3. Taboos of swimming

How to tread water while swimming

Prerequisite: Keep your head above water

The coordination of breathing and hands and legs is rhythmic. You can do one octopus step (beginner) or multiple octopus steps (intermediate) in one breath. Exhale when the hands and legs exert force, and inhale when the hands and legs are retracted, that is, exhale when the head rises, and use the time from the top to the sinking to inhale.

Exercise steps:

1. Keep your head above water, and breathe with your hands and legs at a time until you are familiar with it. If you are not familiar with it, you can move on to the next step, but if you find you have problems breathing, come back and continue practicing this.

2. Keep your head above the water for 10 seconds and count how many times you kick your legs.

3. Hold on for another ten seconds and reduce the number of movements by three.

4. Do another set, keep your head above the water, move as naturally as possible, and gradually reduce the movements.

5. Next, keep your head above the water, tread water, and turn your body in a circle.

6. Next, with your head above the water, move forward 5 meters and then back 5 meters.

Swimming treading water technique diagram

1. Sense the buoyancy of water

Beginners enter the swimming pool and choose the shallow water area. Relax your whole body, choose a random posture, submerge your whole body (except the head) in the water, and feel the buoyancy of the water. Beginners should not be afraid at this time, because we are in the shallow water area and there is no danger of drowning. Feel the buoyancy of water, understand that water is a boost for people to swim, reduce the fear of water, and increase the personal experience of buoyancy.

2. Curl up naturally and dive into the water

The human body is in the "water" in the womb, and the body is in a naturally curled up state. After the beginners feel the buoyancy of the water, their fear of water is not completely eliminated. At this time, the beginners take a deep breath, curl up naturally, immerse their heads in the water, listen to their heartbeats quietly, and even open their eyes to look at the underwater world.

3. Push your hands on the ground and practice "floating"

After the above two steps, beginners’ fear of water has been basically controlled, and the next step is to practice swimming.

Beginners should stand in the shallowest part (just below the arms), support themselves with their hands, and keep slapping the water alternately with their feet. Practice using your feet to keep yourself suspended.

When you practice this step to a later stage, you can occasionally not use your hands to support the ground. You will be surprised to find that your body has a sense of floating and swimming forward.

4. "Stand" in the water and "step" on the water with your feet - practice "controlling your posture"

In theory, people can float in water, but due to posture and other reasons, they often cannot keep their respiratory organs above the water surface.

After practicing "floating", beginners don't have to worry about "sinking". At this time, beginners can walk to the middle water area (the water level is at the bottom of the neck), spread their hands, lift their feet off the ground, and then continue to "tread water". Don't let yourself "fall", maintain an upright posture, and let your hands and feet cooperate to control the posture of your body.

Swimming taboos

1. Avoid swimming on an empty stomach

Swimming on an empty stomach, due to low blood sugar in the body, is particularly prone to muscle tremors, dizziness, collapse, coma, and even collapse leading to drowning and other unexpected dangers.

Do not swim on an empty stomach. Before swimming, swimmers should consume some fruit, milk, candy and other foods before going swimming.

2. Avoid swimming after strenuous exercise

Swimming right after strenuous exercise will put more strain on the heart. During strenuous exercise, the body produces more heat, the body temperature rises, and the sweat glands and subcutaneous blood vessels in the skin expand. If you suddenly jump into cold water, the body temperature drops sharply, the subcutaneous blood vessels will shrink sharply, the sweat pores will be blocked, and it is very easy to cause colds, acute joint pain and other diseases. In severe cases, it can lead to limb paralysis.

After strenuous exercise, you should rest for half an hour and wait for the sweat to subside before going swimming.