What exactly do you do at the class to get your lifegaurd training? details?

Question

What exactly do you do at the class to get your lifegaurd training? details?

Answer 1

This is the general gist of most places:

Swim test - 500 yards of various strokes. Just to make sure you know how to swim

CPR class - not too bad

about a week on various ways to save a person. (whether they are struggling or under water or whatever)

How to backboard (this will be the hardest probably)

How to save someone with a head and neck injury (which involves backboarding)

Basically the hardest thing you'll do is have to swim to the bottom, pick up someone with a neck injury, and backboard them. It's really not hard once you get practice and if your a decent swimmer.

Some places, like the YMCA, will also have you take a course on oxygen administration and AED.

Answer 2

It depends on where you are and what organization is providing the training. Check out www.lifesavingsociety.com for some info.