We are back in school mode - getting our children back to school and their afterschool activities. There is soccer, football, cheerleading, volleyball, basketball, art, dance, tutoring, and many other activities for your child to participate in. This month, we say goodbye to the outdoor pools and the warm water at the beach. However the one thing we need to remember is to maintain those new skills. Whether your child was in our swim starters class or on our swim team, they have developed skills that will regularly need to be maintained.
We here at the Bear Levin Studer Y are fortunate to have an indoor pool where we can offer swim lessons year-round. Our lessons start as young as 6 months old and go all the way through adults.
- Children 6 months to 3 years will continue to build their muscles, build on the skills they have learned and keep reinforcing the safety measure we teach to make them stronger and safer in the water.
- Children 3 to 5 will build on their endurance and strength in the water, and at the highest level, they will develop their strength to learn the front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke kick and butterfly kick.
- Children 6 to 12 years old can start where they are from the very beginning to building endurance and stroke all the way to being able to swim 200 yards of each stroke.
- Adult lessons start at 13 years old. For everyone older, we start at the beginning. When you have mastered the strokes, you can move on to Master Swim that will develop the strokes more and build the endurance you would need to swim for exercise and compete.
Swim lessons are a great way to maintain and build swimming abilities, and a great way to help children develop their skills so that maybe able to join their schools swim teams in Middle School and High School. Swimming is also a full body work out that helps burn off the excess energy they have after school.
Children and adults who swim at least once a week maintain the skills they have learned and build to be stronger swimmers. We offer a lot of open swim times to help you achieve this each week. We have also seen the benefit of children that come swim for 30 minutes before school starts. Swimming early in the morning will help children to stay focused and stay on task in the classroom.
The most important thing is to keep children in the water. It will take a person 1-2 days of relearning for each month that they are out of the pool.