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Effect on water on health preservation and improvement

  • It has a refreshing, stimulating effect
  • It has a beneficial effect on respiratory organs
  • It stimulates blood circulation
  • It boosts the immune system
  • It strengthens the muscles
  • It has a beneficial effect on the bones
  • It relieves stress
  • It improves body posture
  • It shapes personality and character and teaches children adaptability, perseverance, and self control. It demonstrates how to be confident, disciplined and how to fight monotony.

When moving around in water, children will experience its most important characteristic features..

When moving around in water it is not easy for children to get accustomed to

  • water temperature
  • their own lighter weight
  • differences in the operation of inhalation and exhalation organs due to hydrostatic pressure
  • differences in the movement of their body parts due to frontal resistance
  • protective reflexes of the body (e.g. closing the eyes)
  • new positions of the body which are not typical of movements on ground (lying on back, or in a prone position.) The reflexes of head and neck movements are also different.
  • Balance conditions (labyrinthine reflex)

Acquainting children with water means to teach them to adapt to a new environment and to learn as much as possible about its characteristics. The adaptation tasks are the most significant part of swimming instruction.

Without teaching water safety and adaptation one cannot learn how to swim.

Children have to move, perform a variety of movements and change place in water, and all these activities need to be taught in swim lessons.  Water, as a new environment poses a new challenge for learners.