Squad Swimming

Adult Squad

Mini Squad (45 mins)

Mini Squad is the first level of ‘squad swimming’ aimed at swimmers who are developing techniques in all four strokes.

Ideally swimmers should be attending 1-2 squads per week to enable fitness and technical skills.

Aims:

• Confident lap swimming (freestyle and backstroke)
• Breaststroke and butterfly – 25m (developing)

• Dives
• Pool etiquette

Intermediate Squad (1hr)

Intermediate Squad builds on the skills already learnt in mini squad and is aimed at swimmers who have developed techniques in all four strokes.

Ideally swimmers should be attending 1-2 squads per week to enable fitness and technical skills.

Aims:

• Stroke improvement
• Fitness and fun

• Pool etiquette
• Introduction to race skills, starts, turns and finishes

Senior Squad (1hr 30min)

Senior Squad is aimed at 10-13 year olds to improve their fitness, speed, technical efficiency, racing and knowledge of training.

Ideally swimmers should be attending two squads per week to enable fitness and technical skills.

Aims:

• Stroke improvement
• Race skill improvement (starts, turns, finishes)

• Pool etiquette
• Fitness and fun