Holding breath

Use a pool noodle or a kickboard on the water. The child holds onto it with one hand and participates in a "diving competition." At your signal, the child submerges until you remove the pool noodle. Start with two seconds and gradually increase the time. This fun exercise encourages small successes and improves the child's ability to stay underwater longer—an important skill for the core exercise "airplane," where holding their breath for at least five seconds is required.

10-Week Plan
The
Holding breath
exercise is used to learn the following core exercises and swimming styles:

Diving | First Exercise

In this exercise, your child will learn diving through a simple first exercise. It demonstrates gliding underwater and serves as the foundation for more advanced diving techniques.

Slalom Diving

In this exercise, you will learn agility and changing directions underwater, essential for safe diving.

Floating on the Water

In this exercise, you will learn how to float on the water without sinking. This exercise serves as the foundation for all swimming styles.

Tunnel Diving

In this exercise, the child learns independent underwater movement by diving through multiple gates, supported by specific exercises.

Diving Turn

Ring Diving

The child collects five rings from the pool floor in a single dive. The rings are spaced approximately 3 meters apart from each other.

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