5/22/11

What exercises can i do to prepare for bronze medallion?

What exercises can i do to prepare for bronze medallion?
its about 20 October... i am going to take bronze medallion in the winter or spring season and i am not all that athletic. what kind of things do i have to know, practice and do for this course. i dont know many types of swimming. i don't know egg beater or breast stroke or butterfly or dolphin kick. if i take bronze medallion will they teach me
this stuff or will i have to take a different course. also, what level of fitness will i have to have to pass this course with GOOD marks. and any exercise outside of the pool that can help my eggbeater, and swimming.

i only went up to ultra 5 when i was little. and i havent taken anything els after that

Posted by Bekobeyo
do some cardio workouts like swimming running and some biking will help too

Posted by Cayyy_xox
Bronze Medallion is the first step into becoming a lifeguard, so you're going to need to be at least a decent (not necessarily good, but decent) swimmer and in fairly good shape (afterall, you will be "rescuing" people).

You'll need to do the eggbeater kick and tread water for like 5 minutes (sometimes, they'll make you pass a brick while treading water). If you don't know how, they may show you.

Freestyle and head-up front crawl are a must know though. Same with surface and shallow dives. They will likely expect you to know how to do this already.

You do NOT have to know butterfly/dolphin kick unless you are going for beach lifeguard.

You don't get marks - it's a pass or fail at the exam in the end.

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