
Want to learn to swim? Have a fear of the water? You’re not alone. Since 2001, we’ve amassed thousands of success stories with our adult swim students.
Chicago Blue Dolphins has been the premiere school for adult swimming classes and lessons since 2001, and we are known for our Adult Learn to Swim classes.
This is the right program for you if:
- You have a fear of the water.
- You don’t know any of the swimming strokes.
- You can swim for short distances and fatigue quickly.
In these classes, we will teach you strokes and skills so you can enjoy water vacations, swimming with your kids and swimming for fitness. Our coaches set a strong foundation for those who want to learn to freestyle (or front crawl) to do a triathlon.
What is the Class Sequence?
We will fully develop the simple strokes from Level 1 and incorporate breathing. You will add advanced floating and navigation skills to your toolkit to make you more resourceful in the water. You should feel confident swimming for fitness in a shallow water pool.
At the conclusion of this class, you can sign up for the Deep Water Skills Clinic (Level 3) or the Freestyle and Backstroke Foundations (Level 4) class. You can also do the Level 3 and the Level 4 class at the same time.
We offer this class in weekly and one-day intensive class formats. It emphasizes comfort in water where you can can’t stand. You will learn floating and navigation exercises, as well as the three stationary deep water skills – treading, survival floating, and back floating. This class is designed in such a way that you can take it multiple times to learn new skills or to refresh or deepen existing ones.
You must complete the Level 2 class or be able to demonstrate similar skills to one of our coaches before you can take the Deep Water clinic.
At the conclusion of this class, you will move on to our Freestyle and Backstroke Foundations (Level 4) class if you cannot already swim 25 yards of freestyle or Improve Your Strokes courses, typically Freestyle 1, if you can.
This class teaches the core positions and basics of freestyle and backstroke. We find that new swimmers can benefit with spending time learning to balance and transition from the long, side-streamlined positions before moving on to either rhythmic freestyle or backstroke.
We will also take time in this class to improve the quality of the flutter kick motion. You will leave class being able to swim lengths of the pool in ways very similar to full stroke freestyle and backstroke.
At the conclusion of this class, you will move on to our Improve Your Strokes courses, typically Freestyle 1.
What Can You Expect from Our Adult Learn-to-Swim Classes?
For our deep water classes, we rent the pool at the UIC Student Center West. This pool is a 25-yard pool with a 11 foot deep end that makes it ideal for working on deep water comfort and advanced skills.
Our classes run on a set 4-5 week session. You will focus on learning a particular set of skills during that period. At the end of the period, we will evaluate you and either promote you to the next session or refine the current set for another session. We will send you and evaluation at the end of the session providing specifics on your progress.
- Megan overcomes her fear of the water and now even enjoys being in a pool
- Success story from an IRONMAN finisher: ‘I had signed up for my first triathlon and didn’t know how to swim’
- Anthony says, “Never give up”
- Angela turned 40 and decided it was time to learn to swim
- Savitre struggles through fear, anxiety and several sprint triathlons BEFORE deciding to conquer her fears with swim lessons
- From scuba lessons to triathlons, Norm dives into a new sport
The monthly tuition for our adult learn-to-swim classes is $240.00.
Class Name |
Monthly Tuition Cost |
Learn-to-Swim 1, 2, and 4 | $240.00 |
Learn-to-Swim 3 (Deep Water) | $250.00 |
In addition to tuition, there is a non-refundable $20 annual membership fee to cover insurance and safety costs. If you continue on with us beyond one year (and we hope you do), you’ll be charged the membership fee on each anniversary.
If you withdraw from class within the initial three session period, you will be assessed a $25.00 cancellation fee. For more details about withdrawing from a class, see “Disenrollment from Automatic Tuition Renewal” on our Policies and Procedures page.
While we offer both 25 and 50 minute private lessons, adults seem to work best with 50 minute lessons. With all of the different priorities in our adult lives, having a longer lesson usually allows more work to get done in each session.
We also offer private lessons in one, two, and three person options. If you would like to do semi-private lessons, you need to provide the other members in the party. Purchases of five lessons at a time will receive a 5 percent discount.
If you are unsure where you fit in to our group class progression or whether private or group classes best meet your needs, contact our office to schedule a 25-minute Skills Assessment lesson. Our instructor will run you through a series of exercises to determine your current skill level and then will give you an overview of the skills progression that best matches your skills and goals.
Lesson Type |
25 Minute Single | 25 Minute Five Pack | 50 Minute Single | 50 Minute Five Pack |
Skills Assessment | $50.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Private | $75.00 | $356.25 | $145.00 | $688.75 |
Two Swimmers (Per Person) | $49.00 | $232.75 | $98.00 | $465.50 |
Three Swimmers (Per Person) | $37.50 | $178.13 | $75.00 | $356.25 |
If you opt to move ahead with one of our private lesson tuition plans, there is a non-refundable $20 annual membership fee to cover insurance and safety costs. If you continue on with us beyond one year (and we hope you do), you’ll be charged the membership fee on each anniversary.
When you register for a class, we charge your credit card that day for the first month of tuition. We will then set you up for automatic payment on the same day in subsequent months. We will keep you on auto pay until you move into a class with a different tuition or until you discontinue taking classes.
In addition to charging you for the first month of tuition, we will also charge you a non-refundable $20 annual membership fee to cover insurance and safety costs. If you continue on with us beyond one year (and we hope you do), you’ll be charged the membership fee on each anniversary.
If you withdraw from class within the initial three session period, you will be assessed a $25.00 cancellation fee. For more details about withdrawing from a class, see “Disenrollment from Automatic Tuition Renewal” on our Policies and Procedures page.
If you see a SIGN UP button next to the class name, there is space available and you can register online. Please note that you can only register online for our introductory class, Adult Level 1. If you would like to register for a more advanced class, schedule a make-up, or put yourself on a waiting list for a class that’s full, please contact our office.
Please note that we ask that you initially commit to 3 sessions of classes (~ 12-15 weeks) when you sign up. You will only be charged for the first month when you register online with the other two months charged on the second and third months after your class start date. You can cancel within the 3 month period, but you will be charged a $25.00 early cancellation fee.
After receiving your online registration and payment, our office will charge you an additional non-refundable $20.00 for our annual membership fee to cover insurance and safety costs. If you continue on with us beyond one year (and we hope you do), you’ll be charged the membership fee on each anniversary.
See “What is the Cost for Group Classes” above for more details on tuition and membership policies.
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How Do I Register?
Please note that we ask that you initially commit to 3 sessions of classes (~ 12-15 weeks) when you sign up. You will only be charged for the first month when you register online with the other two months charged on the second and third months after your class start date. You can cancel within the 3 month period, but you will be charged a $25.00 early cancellation fee.
After receiving your online registration and payment, our office will charge you an additional non-refundable $20.00 for our annual membership fee to cover insurance and safety costs. If you continue on with us beyond one year (and we hope you do), you’ll be charged the membership fee on each anniversary.
See “What is the Cost for Group Classes” above for more details on tuition and membership policies.
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