Why swim is more complicated than learning English?

May 13, 2015

by 226ERS #FeedYourDreams

Alex Imbernón returns to #Feedyourdreams to give us advice from experience, an article that every athlete who wants to start swimming should read.

Many of you will ask yourself what does it have to do Learn to swim with learning English. Well, from my own experience in both cases I can tell you that there is no better comparison to see why swimming is a complicated sport that takes time, dedication and a lot of training. Sometimes you can surprise how triathletes can forget train swimming. Without a doubt it is about more complicated sector for those who have never practiced it and leave swimming as the forgotten sector. As I know that many of you in this life have gone through the two situations of learning to swim and learn to speak English, I will try to explain what we need to improve swimming comparing it to learn English. I am sure you are going to feel very identified J.

1. When should I start swimming?

Ty the water now! Don't wait any longer! Swimming Like English reward much more to those who start from children. Who has not had in class the typical child who speaks very well English or who has not had on the street next door a child that happens to us like a bullet swimming? Well, that child will have done the most complicated, structure his body and mind to swimming or English from his childhood. I understand that you will be wondering that then, if I have not practiced swimming since childhood, I no longer have back? Do I forget to learn to swim and improve my technique? Well, like many adults who begin with later English, unlike what They can fool you in an English academy, I have to tell you that if you have not practiced swimming until 25 or 30 years, it will cost you much more than that child who started at 3 years to swim. Mainly for a Key factor, floatability. In English it is usually this word that surely sounds so much: fluence

2. Strive twice as much as the others in swimming

With the previous point, I am not telling you that you cannot swim quickly with your age but quite the opposite, what I want to propose from here is that if you have not previously swam to practice triathlon, You need to strive twice or triple that in the other two sectors, since Swimming requires technical and biomechanical factors Very complicated to get in 1 or 2 years. To do this, as we do in English looking for a formed and experienced native that teaches us to speak native English, do the same in swimming, seeks to a good one Coach graduated in Sports Sciences with experience in swimming What Help face -to -face to improve at least 2 times a week Your swim technique. Do not be fooled by weekend or 4 weeks courses that tell you that you will improve in that little time. It will happen the same as the famous courses of learning English in 1000 words, which You will lose your time and money. Therefore, if you decide to train for free with the training of a sports magazine or with those who taught you in a course, I hope you remember this article in which I told you that you waste your time friend! And today time is gold!

3. Train your weak points

Just a coach That is with you day by day for at least 1 year will know better than anybody Your technical errors and what exercises you need To improve your swim technique. It is this person who will observe your evolution from outside the pool and will report the feedback of your swim visually with video camera and day by day stopping on training and explaining what you do wrong. Once you detect your weak points, it is very important that you work week after week. Swimming is a sport that like English, You quickly forget And if you do not practice it, you will have to start from practically zero. Nor do you fall into the mistake that many mistakes tell you, the ideal is Start with the 3 most important They make you waste time swimming and correcting them. Once you have them controlled, move on to the next level. Doesn't this sound to you in English? J

4. Group training

This is my favorite, who has not heard that to learn English well we must go to London or another place to speak English to learn it perfect? Well, the same thing happens with swimming, go to a club or a swimming training group like ours and learn with others. You will see how your evolution is positive or negative, how those who do not fail, swim more and faster and you are going every two weeks more and further back from the group. I will tell you as many times as you need, Swimming rewards those who do not fail in training and sacrifices those who do not train. And if not, tell our Spanish super triathlete, Mario Mola, that thanks to its evolution swimming with the group of Joel Filliol can already compete to win races in CTOS of the world. This is so and it will always be so. I have not invented it but you can see it when you direct a group of swimmers where the level of each one evolves more every day and others every day.