The Complete Beginners Guide To Swimming: Professional guidance and support to help you through every stage of learning how to swim

As a beginner learning how to swim you face many, often scary unknowns. From first entering the water, to lifting your feet up off the bottom, submerging your face and learning to breathe. From conquering your fears right through to learning what each part of your body should be doing when swimming the four basic strokes, The Complete Beginners Guide To Swimming contains everything you could possibly need.

Contents:

The Benefits of SwimmingFear of SwimmingSwimming ScienceBuoyancy AidsEntering The PoolLearning To Go UnderwaterStanding Up Mid SwimHow To FloatHow To Relax In The WaterHow To Glide Through The WaterHow And When To BreatheBasic Floating ExercisesFront CrawlBackstroke BreaststrokeButterfly

Inside you will find ‘real questions’ from real beginners learning how to swim. Questions like ‘why do my legs sink?”, “why do I get water up my nose?” and ‘why do I get so tired?”. Each one with a detailed and personal answer from the author.

Mark Young is a well-established swimming instructor and creator of Swim-Teach.com, with over thirty years of experience teaching thousands of adults and children to swim. He has taken nervous, frightened children and adults who fear water and made them happy and confident swimmers. He has also turned many of those with average ability into advanced swimmers. His best-selling books include 'The Complete Beginners Guide to Swimming', 'The Swimming Strokes Book', 'How To Be a Swimming Teacher' and '101 Swimming Lesson Plans for Swimming Teachers', and they all draw on his experiences and countless successes to put together some simplistic methodical approaches to learning to swim and teaching swimming.