Swimming has many benefits in fitness, which is called the best exercise for the body by many experts, and swimming can save your life in water. It is a very important survival skill, so many parents want their children to learn to swim. Parents still need to know a lot about their children learning to swim. For example, when do boys start learning to swim, and when is it appropriate for boys to start learning to swim?

It's better to have more children and swim in college.

Every child's growth and development are different, and the best age to learn swimming will be different, but the best age for most children, including boys and girls, is 5 to 8 years old. Don't learn swimming before the age of 4 at the earliest. Children before the age of 4 are not suitable for swimming training in terms of development, while children before the age of 4 already have the basic ability to learn swimming, but their neuromuscular development is not complete, and they will learn better after the age of 5 or 6.

At present, children's swimming training courses in China are required to be over 6 years old, because children aged 6 have basically passed the ability of understanding, expression and reaction, and 7 and 8 years old will be better. If you learn swimming at this age, you can better understand and understand the explanation of the swimming coach and master it faster. In addition, children can adapt to the underwater environment before they learn to swim at the age of 6, and they can usually take their children to play with water or learn basic swimming skills such as holding their breath.

What kind of stroke does a child learn to swim first?

In China, many people, whether adults or children, learn to swim from breaststroke, because breaststroke is relatively easy to master, because its hands and feet are relatively simple, it doesn't require much strength, and it is easier to breathe. Many accelerated swimming courses teach breaststroke. If you want to learn swimming quickly and economically, you can start with breaststroke.

However, breaststroke is a swimming stroke that easily causes sports injuries and is not suitable for long-distance swimming. If you want children to learn swimming better and more systematically, and want to learn professionally, it is recommended to learn freestyle first. Because freestyle is the basic stroke, learning freestyle first and then butterfly and backstroke will get twice the result with half the effort. But freestyle is more difficult to learn and takes longer than breaststroke.