what is the average days to learn swimming?
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Usually beginner programs I know of offer 10 weeks of classes, once or twice a week for up to two hours per class.
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Well on the varsity swim team, in a two hour practice we swim round 6000-7000 yards in 2 hours.\nSets will vary, but usually we will do a long set (consisting of 1000 yards, etc. 10x100 on let's say...1:30. \nThen we'll do a shorter set, say 8x75's on 1:30.\nThen a long one, 3x500 on...7 min.\nThen @ the end of practice (last 15 minutes or so) we might play a fierce game of water polo!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Check with the Burlingame Aquatic Club.  They may direct you with a great place to get swimming lessons.
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How good a swimmer are you? If you can do a 16 minute swim, that would be a very good time. 17 minutes would be considered reasonable.
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I recommend you start learning while wearing fins.  It's a lot easier to get your timing correct if you have a powerful kick.  \n\nI always start teaching the body undulation.  Butterfly is not flat, your body . . . ripples from fingers to toes as you swim.\n\n1.  With fins, do 12x25m dolphin kick just under the surface of the water.  Hands out in front and time it as follows:\nKick once and press your chest down and forward in the water.  This will cause your torso to go down and your hips to come up.  Now kick again and arch your back, pointing your hands and face up at the surface of the water.  This will make your torso go up and your hips go down.  This "kick your body down, kick your body up" is one cycle of butterfly stroke.  At this point, you should look for the path of least resistance in the water.  It should all be easy and smooth and once cycle should take 3-4 seconds, not too fast.\n\nNow the pull.  With your hands out in front, shoulder width apart, press your hands down toward your waist (it's alright if they widen a little as they go down).  When your hands pass your shoulders on their way down, start bringing them in towards each other.  By the time your hands pass your belly button, the inside edges of your index fingers should touch.  Then, as your hands go toward your waist, push them out HARD so that by the time your arms are fully extended, your hands are brushing the outside of your hips.  That is butterfly pull (sounds complicated, but it's not so bad).\n\n2.  Still with fins, push of the wall, hands in front.  Start your pull as you KICK your head down.  Pull all the way down past your hips and glide as long as you can (you should be slightly underwater).  DON'T recover your arms.  Just do this one pull off the wall 20 times.  You want to get the feeling of combining a strong pull and a strong KICK to drive your head/torso slightly down and a lot FORWARD.  This drill should make you feel very strong.  \n\n2a.  When you have mastered (2), do this:  As you start your pull, pull your head out of the water and take a breath.  Your head should be out of the water as your hands are passing your shoulders.  Take your breath quickly, then turn your face to the bottom of the pool and drive your head/torso down and FORWARD.  Finish the pull and glide like in (2).  Do this 20 times.\n\n3.  Now we add the arm recovery and second kick.  Push off the wall and do the drill described above.  As your hands pass your belly button, KICK and point your face toward the surface.   Your body will rise as your hands push out to your hips (this is the time to breathe if you need it).  Now point your face towards the bottom of the pool and drive down and FORWARD.  The instant that you drive your body down  is when you bring your hands over the water back out in front of you and start the cycle over again.\n\nThe difficult thing about butterfly is timing.  Your kicks happen at about the beginning and 2/3 point of your pull, so you have to think about them both at the same time.  If you wait until your pull is done before you do your 2nd kick, butterfly will be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard.  \n\nThe other thing is to remember the 2 B4's: your head goes in the water BEFORE your hands, and comes out of the water BEFORE your hands.  \n\nGood luck, and remember to KICK.
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YMCA I learned how to swim there and went on to take SCUBA , about two years later. When I learned to swim I was actually trying to learn not to fear the water. if you cant get over this part you are not going to learn to swim you have to let go of the fear.
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I work out in a pool, so that might present problems for you if you don't have access to a deep-water pool. It also takes extra time because of the changing clothes before and after. But I love it and would not do anything else. I'm in the water 3x a week for 60-90 minutes.  There's details on my blog.
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It's different for everyone.  I don't like the idea of being too forceful, but I also don't like the idea of leaving it completely up to the child.  Some kids will NEVER try if not pushed a bit.  A class would definitely help- sometimes being taught by someone who's not a parent or close relative can speed things along.  People develop at different rates, but generally speaking, a child can easily learn how to swim by the age of 5.
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Depends on the kid. Not all kids will enjoy swimming, and if they don't they won't want to learn. You can't really force him/her to learn to swim. But if they are showing interest in swimming or playing in the water in general, you could start around age 5. Make sure they can walk well, have good hand-eye coordination and are able to communicate well enough with the instructor. You could always ask the kid if he/she wants to learn how to swim?
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less than 2 weeks... speed it up by going swimming... for some reason that made it go aaway for me in like 3 days....
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Cool! hey relax, as a swimmer, your cardio ability is probably better than most other beginners and you like it already so this will be a great summer, but here's an idea of a sample week for you.\nMonday off(or bike or swim), Tues 3 miles easy,Wednesday 5 miles with 10 minute run, 1 min walk breaks, Thursday 4 miles maybe pushing the pace for 1 minute at a time 4 or 5 times, Friday off(or swim or bike) Saturday 8 miles SLOW, conversational pace. Sunday-3 miles easy\n\nNow listen, if you are tired or sore after this, TAKE THE REST DAYS OFF ENTIRELY. For three weeks, increase your mileage by 10%. NO MORE. That 4th week decrease over weekly mileage 25% to give your body time to catch up. You will feel great during this week and want to blow it off, do not, you will be glad you had the rest week in the following weeks.  This should get you through the summer. You want to be ready for the school year, not injured or burned out, so this will get you there. Please decrease the beginning week mileage as you need to. remember to sleep enough and eat right, that is a MAJOR factor as a successful runner.\n\nSince you are a young person, that is why I put the rest days in as sort of optional, but I really want you to take some days completely off. Sometimes the most important training day is a day off. Don;t forget that, okay?\n\nExperience_ 5 time marathon finisher, 1 time ultramarathon finisher(35 miles), 4 time half marathoner, more 5ks than you are old.
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You should DEFINITELY join! I have been swimming for a long time but i have also done other sports too. Swimming is definitely the hardest. You will have to work hard but don't even worry about your times compared to other people. You can't compare yourself to people who have been swimming longer than you. You should join your team and then focus on improving for yourself and work on beating your own times instead of other people's. It doesn't matter what other people are doing, just focus on improving for yourself.
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Get trained. You need strong swimming skills and good technique or you are risking your  life as well. Try the Red Cross, or a similar organization. Since I don't know where you live I can't make any other suggestions for training.\nAlways supervise children and pets around the pool. Even a short distraction can be fatal.
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30 min run is the better option.\nBut if you know swimming it is much better.
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As a swim instructor and lifeguard I can tell you that tying weights to yourself is a sure way of drowning. \n\nTo practice your swimming and to get stronger you will need to swim more then once a week. At least 2 to 3 times. Start at a small distance such as 500 total yards. You can break this down into ten 50 yard laps or five 100 yard laps etc.etc. Also switch strokes between the freestyle,breast stroke and back stroke.This will help your form as well as keep you from getting overdeveloped and having injury. \n\nAs for legs. Using a kick board you can do laps using the different kicks. Such as Flutter, whip and dolphin kicks. Adding fins will also help with speed and strength because it adds more resistants. \n\nTreading water while holding your hands above the water is also a good way to  get stronger. Do this for small amounts of time and work up. This is a favorite of my lifeguards. \n\nYou can also go to the US Swim Assoc. and they can help you get setup with plans. Also check out your local swim team.They are associated with the US Swim and can help coach you.
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with lessons..\nIt is the hardest stroke to learn..\nalas when swam correctly can look quite beautiful...\nI suggest you get someone to teach you...\nits a stroke that every one has there own technique...
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It depends on the level or type of coaching you want to do. The above answer is right, but for USA swimming there are several tests plus lifeguard certification and other recommended courses. You owe it to your potential clients to learn as much as you can, teach them the strokes correctly and safely, and have a good attitiude.