Swimming is an excellent physical activity, with multiple physical and psychological benefits. But many are afraid of water. How to overcome this phobia?
Pleasant, relaxing, physical, swimming is one of the favorite sports (and hobbies) of the French. Its benefits are numerous both physically and for psychological well-being. Ideal for building muscle and losing weight, swimming is a complete and rich physical activity. As the site reminds us Pool guide, she “allows you to burn up to 650 kcal in one hour by swimming at a moderate pace (against 600 kcal in running) “if it is practiced regularly (3 to 4 times per week).
Unfortunately, there are many who are afraid of water. If these people are unable to bathe, they sometimes even have difficulty in showering. Aquaphobia is a serious syndrome. Lifeguards all find that many people refuse to learn to swim on their backs, for example, without being able to really explain why. Some psychiatrists will tell you that the origin is also found in early childhood baths. So we could stop there, but that would amount to depriving ourselves of an effective therapeutic means and incomparable pleasure.
How to overcome your fear of water?
It is all the more regrettable that there are solutions. Overcoming your fear of water is first of all to avoid a few stupidities: forcing a person to go swimming if they don’t want to, or even talking to them about willpower when they are sharing their concerns with you. . To overcome this phobia, it is possible to help a psychotherapist or a sophrologist: both will teach relaxation techniques based on breathing, concentration, and relaxation of the body.
You can also contact lifeguards who are specialists in the problem. They will organize small games in the children’s pool to teach you how to put your whole body in the water, including your head, and especially how to find support to keep your balance. There are courses to guide you in this process where you can only strengthen your personality and above all experience intense pleasure.
To know more : Finally prescribe physical exercise
A program from the VYV Fréquence Médicale channel
It is obvious to all the specialties of medicine: physical exercise can be considered a free universal drug, effective, almost without contraindications and side effects. It is also obvious: the message does not get through. Probably due to the sport / exercise confusion which disrupts understanding and limits prescriptions. The name Adapted Physical Activity has been proposing for twenty years to summarize all physical activities, even artistic, to arrive at a reimbursement.
Health Insurance does not – wrongly – make it a priority. Also, doctors hesitate to formalize a prescription. Defining the “prescription sheet” for this essential therapy will be the goal of the show below. The guest is a major player in the subject. Professor Gérard Saillant is known worldwide for having operated, when he was head of the orthopedics department at La Pitié, on the greatest athletes on the planet. He is still one of the most consulted specialists for his expertise. But he also decided to devote most of his time to this new fight: that physical exercise be prescribed at the height of its effectiveness to participate in a certain form of rescue by moving its inhabitants.
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