Markki Stroem teaches basic swimming strokes
Markki Stroem may be busy hosting the morning radio show The Morning Rush and his online show "Fitness Tips for Lazy Peeps," but he makes sure that his health and fitness are still his top priorities.
Markki Stroem teaches the basic swimming strokes / Source: Mars Pa More
Aside from working out, swimming is one of the ways Markki keeps fit. During his recent Mars Pa More guesting, he tells hosts Iya Villania and Camille Prats that he always tries to get some swimming time in during the weekends.
He also shows how to do some basic swimming strokes such as the freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly stroke.
Freestyle
According to Markki, the freestyle is a basic swimming stroke that everyone should learn. To do this, your body will be in a prone position or facing the water, then you will do flutter kicks, which is basically kicking your legs back and forth.
Your hands should be rotating in and out of the water alternately, and after every two or three strokes, you will tilt your body sideways at a 30- or 40-degree angle to raise your head a bit above the water and get air.
Breaststroke
For the breaststroke, Markki suggests that you embody a frog, because their swimming style is pretty similar to a breaststroke. To do this, you should also be in a prone position facing the water, with your arms doing semicircular movements and your legs doing frog kicks.
Backstroke and Butterfly strokes
The backstroke and butterfly strokes are more advanced swimming strokes. To do the backstroke, you need to be in supine position as you rotate your arms backwards alternately and do flutter kicks.
As for the butterfly stroke, you need to be in a prone position as you do dolphin kicks. Dolphin kicks are done by moving your legs and feet in a coordinated manner, mimicking how real dolphins swim.
At the same time, you will also be moving both your arms backward and raise it above the water and put it back into the water above your head, as you raise your upper body slightly above the water and get air.
During his swimming tutorial on Mars Pa More, Markki also emphasized the importance of having adults around to supervise the children while they learn how to swim, in order to prevent any untoward incident. So, kids should always ask their parents or guardians to be with them in the pool.
And before you try out some of these strokes in the pool, you can watch and learn first from Markki Stroem in the Mars Pa More video above.
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