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How to Get Better at Swimming for Your ADF Recruit Training Test

You passed your PFA! Congrats. We hope you're ready for all the physical training and tests awaiting you on your recruit training. If you need to improve your swimming, this is your guide.

How to Get Better At Swimming for Your ADF Recruit Training Test

7/31/2018

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1. Join a HEALTH CLUB with all the required facilities

2. MASTER THE BASICS

3. abandon ship situation

4. the underwater swim

5. tread the water technique

6. 50m swim

  • Freestyle
  • Back skull - Keep your arms underwater
  • Sidestroke - Keep your arms underwater
  • Breaststroke

7. Practice floating For 15 minutes

  1. Supine (on the back): Lying on the surface of the water with legs out stretched, arms by the side. Tilt the head back to point the chin up. Inhale into the lung, lift the chest out of the water while raising the hips to keep the legs and feet on the water surface.
  2. Vertical (Eggbeater): In other words the "tread the water" technique. Whilst upright in the water kick each leg one after the other in a half breast-stroke fashion. At the same time wave the arms back and forth at waist height.

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