SUMMARY
Swimming applied in a playful way applies several possibilities for its practitioners to develop motor skills. This is because, in the water, it is possible to experience challenging situations that develop better physical and motor skills. Swimming is important for motor development by helping to improve the physical capacity and skills of practitioners, also helping to develop upper and lower limb coordination, agility, balance and laterality, enabling an improvement in the learning process. For education professionals, swimming is the most complete activity because it has fewer restrictions and is a sport of great value for physical development and body maturation. The objective of this study was to present the benefits of swimming with Lifeguard Recertification working together with psychomotricity, since the psychomotor elements in swimming help in learning outcomes. Therefore, a bibliographic research was carried out to present the reality of swimming practice and its contribution to the development of psychomotricity.
INTRODUCTION
Swimming is a tor stimulus and adaptation to the liquid environment favors important psychomotor stimuli. Through aquatic activities, it is possible to obtain an expansion of the motor repertoire in addition to assisting in the maturation and leading the person who practices the sport to develop motor, affective and cognitive capacities and expand the possibilities of sociability and self-confidence (CORREA; MASSAUD, 1999).
This study aims to present the benefits of swimming worked together with psychomotricity, where the psychomotor elements of swimming help in the child's learning results.
In this context, the importance of swimming in psychomotor development, is to be able to improve physical capacity and ability of children in the early years, helps to develop coordination of upper and lower limbs, agility, balance and laterality, enabling improvement in motor development and in the learning process.
For education professionals, swimming is a more complete activity, as it has a smaller amount of restrictions and is a sport of great value for the physical development of the child, when it comes to the construction of the body schema and in the motor development, it has a great participation in the construction of the body scheme and in the development of body maturation.
METHODOLOGY
As a methodology, a literature review was chosen and books, articles and monographs were used as instruments. Websites such as SCIELO and LILACS also served as a research tool. The material selected aimed, above all, to present the current reality of swimming practice and the contribution of the practice of this activity to psychomotricity, this material was published between 1995 and 2014. The keywords that guided the selection of the material were: child, phases of development, maturation, psychomotricity, swimming, playfulness and motor development.
The collection period took place between February and September 2016 and the material collected was analyzed, studied and revised until reaching the final considerations of what swimming is like, the psychomotor foundations that encompass it, proposals and pedagogical strategies developed during the practice of swimming with lifeguard class. aquatic activities, as well as its contribution to the psychomotor development in the educational intervention in the aquatic environment.
1. SWIMMING
With practice in the aquatic environment and with a history that goes back to Ancient Greece, swimming is considered a beneficial physical activity for the human body by working different muscle groups and joints of the body and developing the cardiac and respiratory system. As with any sporting activity, before practicing, the individual must seek guidance from a professional in the field and undergo medical evaluation tests. At first, history points out that the practice of swimming took place in the open sea or in rivers and the main concern at that time was survival (GOMES, 2014).
Swimming is widespread as a recreational activity, in which swimmers enter the water just for fun and as a competitive sport. Artificial swimming pools, seas, lakes and rivers are the stages for this activity. It is known that swimming also helps to improve motor coordination, in addition to being recommended for people with respiratory problems, and is the only physical activity indicated for children under 3 years of age (CATTEAU; GAROFF, 1990) with American Lifeguard VA.
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