Dr Pete Andersen

Ten Best Steps Teaching Yourself to Swim Safely and Efficiently Dr Pete Andersen

Publisher Marketing: Ten Best Steps Teaching Yourself To Swim Safely And Efficiently is a quick introduction for non-swimmers, beginners, parents, and grandparents. This book varies from the series system of easy-to-master one-minute steps. Each step is a larger group of smaller steps designed to teach each phase of the learn-to-swim process. This basic skills introduction is needed in rural and low income urban and suburban areas where there is no pool or experienced instructors. Then if you choose to take lessons you will get more value from your investment and time by already being familiar with all the basic skills. This book is a must reference resource every family should have in their library so each member can learn at their own pace. You can overcome your fears starting at home without a pool using a kitchen sink, dressing mirror, mattress, and a bath tub to get familiar with all the basic skills. You can teach yourself or your kids to swim using the brief verbal and visual picture sequence descriptions with correct kinesthetic or feeling cues for the water pressure on your hands and forearms. Wearing goggles will help you see the correct pattern to feel the water pressure, hold on to the water, and pull and push your body over the water while floating. The primary focus is on learning how to hold your breath, relaxed floating skills, and only freestyle (also known as crawl stroke). You will learn alternating hard and arm patterns keeping your hands opposite to lengthen your strokes. This allows more time coordinate your rhythmical breathing every right arm stroke so you can swim continuously replacing your air supply without stopping. All the new methods of spatial awareness, mind control, sequential learning, mastery learning, feedback information processing, and transfer of identical elements are applied. The content is based on never out-of-date physics and psychology of learning principles that are proven to get faster longer-lasting results when the skills sequence and mastery are followed. Then you can take your new skills and repeat them in sequence in the shallow end of a pool or lake on a weekend. Always remember you float first and swim second to conserve your energy and not panic. This is the number one rule of water safety. And once you understand how and why you can float you can control your body position to improve your swimming efficiency.