Adult Swimming Classes: Learn to Swim

Learn to float, glide, and swim on your front and back. Our goal is to eliminate anxiety and tension so you can concentrate on learning and enjoyment.

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 a weekly class format.  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.

In our custom-designed Swim Studio, you will swim in a high-tech Endless Pool. Here’s why our Endless Pools will help you learn faster and make you a better swimmer overall.

For our deep water classes, we rent one of two pools on the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) campus:  the Sport and Fitness Center (SFC) and the Physical Education Building (PEB).  These pools are 25-yards long with an 11+ foot deep end that makes it ideal for working on deep water comfort and advanced skills.

We keep the size of our classes small to give each student more attention and practice. Our student-to-teacher ratio in our adult learn to swim classes at the Blue Dolphin Swim Studio is 3:1 maximum.  Our Learn-to-Swim 3 Deep Water classes have a 4:1 student-to-teacher ratio which reflects the larger size of the pool area in which these classes are conducted.

Each adult class is 60 minutes long.

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.

We have nearly 20 years of success stories from our adult swim students. Here are first-person accounts from just a few:

• 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

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Our group classes run year round. Enrollment in our group classes is open-ended. There is no official end date to our classes and you may join us for as long as you’d like. How long you remain enrolled in our classes will ultimately depend on your swimming goals. We recommend joining us for at least three months to see measurable improvements.  Within a 3 month period, most of our adult newbies will be swimming on their fronts and backs, able to roll to get air or call for help, and are either getting comfortable in deep water or starting to learn freestyle and backstroke.

Tuition will run automatically each month for as long you are a student. You may discontinue at any point. The value of any remaining credits can be held on account, transferred to another account, converted to other services and products, or refunded to your credit card on file.

The monthly tuition for our adult learn-to-swim classes is shown in the table below:

Class Name	Monthly Tuition Cost
Learn-to-Swim 1, 2, and 4	$265.00
Learn-to-Swim 3 (Deep Water)	$275.00

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.

Please be aware, a $25 cancellation fee will be charged to your account if you discontinue your classes during the first three months of your enrollment. There are no cancellation fees if you cancel after three months of enrollment. For more details about withdrawing from a class, see “Disenrollment from Automatic Tuition Renewal” on our Policies and Procedures page.

Yes, we do! Private lessons are ideal for adults who want to learn at their own pace or who need more flexibility with their schedule.

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	$55.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
Private	$82.00	$389.50	$160.00	$760.00
Two Swimmers (Per Person)	$54.00	$256.50	$108.00	$513.00
Three Swimmers (Per Person)	$41.00	$194.75	$82.00	$389.50

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.

Here’s the full schedule for our Adult Learn to Swim classes. You can click the Filter “three line” icon to filter the results by location, day of the week, time of day, class name, and instructor.

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.

See “What is the Cost for Group Classes” above for more details on tuition and membership policies.

We ONLY allow online registration for the first class in our sequence, Adult Level 1.  If you see a SIGN UP button next to the class name, there is space available and you can register online. 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.

See “What is the Cost for Group Classes” above for more details on tuition and membership policies.

If you would rather speak with someone, please feel free to call us at (773) 342-7250 during our office hours (Monday – Friday: 9 am – 7 pm | Saturday – Sunday: 9 am – 5 pm). You can also provide your contact information below, and a member of our team will get back to you within 1 business day.