Unley Swimming Club

Swimming Club in Adelaide, South Australia

Training

The Club caters to swimmers who want to swim competitively or for fitness with the aim to improve stroke technique, overall performance and fitness. Skills taught include all four competitive strokes, starts and turns.

Season plans are created for each group to ensure the group receives the training that suits them, as a result greater improvements can be achieved. Swimmers will develop at different rates and have different abilities – this is taken into account for each session.

Training Expectations

 In order to establish a distraction-free and productive training environment that will encourage and develop skills, all swimmers will be expected to:

  • Abide by the below guidelines and General Code of Conduct
  • Be on deck in the allocated areas 10 minutes prior to session starting
  • Proceed to allocated lane and ensure net bag is placed ready to be used, drink bottle is available, goggles and caps are on and swimmer is ready to start at session commencement time to undertake the warm up
  • Enter the pool in a safe and appropriate manner – feet first entry
  • Use legal tumble turns and streamline at both ends of the pool
  • Undertake legal strokes from wall to wall, pushing off the wall at the start and finishing hard into the wall at the end of each required distance
  • Move to the side of the lane and up the lane rope when the set is finished to allow other swimmers to finish hard at the wall
  • Perform drills as instructed
  • No hanging or sitting on lane ropes during sessions
  • Be respectful and listen to the coaching team
  • Be respectful and listen to Pool Management at both centres
  • Be respectful to other swimmers
  • Be respectful to the general public utilising the swimming centre
  • Leave the pool promptly at the completion of each session with all equipment
  • Remember you are representing the club at all times: set a good example
  • Adhere to simple lane etiquette rules; ensure you leave at least a 5 second space between swimmers, and when overtaking please do this swiftly with the swimmer being overtaken to keep to the left lane rope