Brent Majcher - How to Swim in Five Easy Steps

HOW TOSWIM IN 5 EASY STEPS

Copyright 2017 by Swimming Fearless

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Author: Brent Majcher

Organization: www.swimmingfearless.com

Dedicated to: My Family

Thankyou for helping making me the person that I want to be!

1. Swimming is a hazardous activity for peoplejust starting to learn. Swimming should be practiced in acontrolled environment with a lifeguard present and in a poolsetting where the bottom of the pool can be easily stood up on whenyou begin to become fatigued or scared.

2. Please consult a doctor if you believe youhave any present medical condition that may affect your ability topractice the skills suggested in this book. Conditions may include:Arthritis, asthma, physical or mental illness or other illnessesthat may affect your ability to swim correctly.

3. Swimming Fearless and its resources are nota substitute for professional swim instruction. The choice to relyon this books advice alone should be done so at your own risk.

4. Do not attempt any of the exercises ortechniques found if you do not understand them. Please consultadditional advice from Swimming Fearless or other swimmingprofessionals to help you achieve an understanding of the exercisesor techniques.

5. Water levels higher than shoulder heightimmediately require the use of a PFD (personal flotation device) ora Life-Preserver to prevent incidence of drowning or otherlife-threatening injuries around the water.

6. Consider utilizing the help of a friend oranother strong swimmer to watch over you while you practice theskills suggested in this book.

7. Swimming Fearless and all of its employeesare exempt from any injuries or loss of life sustained by you oranyone using the advice provided by Swimming Fearless and itsemployees. You and anyone related using the advice or techniquesprovided do so at their own risk.

8. This book should be utilized forentertainment purposes only. The advice provided in this book isnot a substitute for any swimming or safety instruction you mayhave previously received.

9. Reading on or applying any of theadvice found in this book confirms your acceptance of this booksdisclaimer.

Welcome to How to Swimin 5 Easy Steps. My name is Brent Majcher and this e-book outlinesa basic system of advice for how anyone can learn to swim. Itswhat I have used to teach over 500 students in my years of swimminginstruction. Its a very simple system that if you follow and applycorrectly, will show you excellent and rapid results.

Before we begin though, please carefully read through mydisclaimer which can be found on the page after the business-yinformation at the beginning of the book. Learning to swim hascertain risks involved with it and you must take every precautionto make sure that you keep yourself safe in and around yourindividual pool. Additionally, please read through my Safety Tipsat the end of the book as well to make sure that you remain as safeas possible while we teach you the skills that are necessary tobecome a kick-ass swimmer!

I started my blog andwrote this short e-book with the intent of helping peoplestruggling to learn the basic skill of swimming. Whether that wasfor people with anxiety in and around the water or just plaindidnt get around to learning how to swim ever, I wanted to provideand give them the guidance they need for success.

Now, onto thee-book. I hope you all enjoy it!

Learning to swim is a relatively easy skill to pick up. Ifyou compare swimming to say, learning a language or learning toplay an instrument or even learning social skills, learning to swimis cake-walk. Successful swimming can be learned by just aboutanybody within probably 10-20 sessions of about 1 hour of practicein the pool and that blows learning an instrument out of the waterin terms of time commitment. All that it will take from you is aconsistent effort applied twice a week until youve finished upyour sessions.

So, how does one learnto swim. To me, there are two pre-requisites that must be presentif you are to have even a moderate amount of success. Theseare:

• Control over youranxiety in and around the pool and;

• A decent aerobicfitness level.

If you dont have these yet, dont worry because you caneasily obtain them. I have two articles that you can view for moredetail on my website www.SwimmingFearless.com .

Assumingthat you meet our pre-requisites above, we can move on. Learning toswim, like most other skills, can be taught through a simpleprogression. This begins with a simplified version of the strokeyou want to learn, and then you will slowly and systematically addmore and more to your simple version of the stroke until you arebusting out Michael Phelps approved technique.

When you arelearning swimming, you must follow a progression that follows thefollowing fundamental steps:

These are the steps that everyone used to become proficientat any swimming skill, even if they didnt know it!Y ou muststart from the bottom and work up when you use this progression.The first step must be mastered before you take a step up theladder or your technique will suffer! See there needs to be a SOLIDFOUNDATION, to set yourself up for success...

(crickets)

.So try to follow the progression in the following order:

1. Attitude + State

2. Body Position

3. Legs/ Kicking

4. Arms/ Breath

5. Coordination

And that isit! Thats all that you need to know to learn or teach the skill ofswimming

But for goodmeasure, let me elaborate on each of the steps!

So,Attitude and State is first: This means that you must have a goodattitude, one that is positive, going into your learning sessionsif you want to make some achievements. You definitely dont want tobe destroying any and all of your hopes and motivation withall of your own negative self-talk. If you dont think this is you,consider this:

Whatdoes your personality, either most of the time or even just some ofthe time, share, deep down with a six year old kid who getsfrustrated because things arent going his way. Deep down are youscared, nervous, or anxious about swimming. Are you convinced thisis something you CANT achieve?

Thistype of person could be called many things and this might even pissyou off a little bit!

Hes being pouty.

Hes being a wimp.

Hes being aloser.

Im not trying to bean ass here. But you must understand that you are not going to getanything achieved in this world willy-nilly. All of the best stuffin this world is found within yourself.

Thats it. You overcoming any barriers holding you back inlife, whether that is from swimming or not, is what will changeyour life and make you more happy than anything else.

So, this WOE IS MEattitude is NOT how we are going to tackle swimming. We are goingto implant the belief in ourselves that we are absolutely awesomeand we are complete badasses for striving to achieve something thatwe know we want.

Weare just the type of people who make the shit that we want happenin our lives. And because of that, we ENJOY THE PROCESS oflearning to swim. Even on the days when it is hard for us.ESPECIALLY, on the days when it is hard for us. So lets learn tolove the journey!

On avery similar note , you must watch your body language. The body language thatyou walk around with every day AND the body language that you arebringing to the pool. Ive written a handful of articles on thisexact topic, and you must understand. Body language must remainRELAXED during the process of learning to swim. You will have avery hard time swimming if you are all wound up during yourpractice sessions. The tightness will manifest itself in variousaspects of your technique. So keep your body language open andrelaxed.