Adult Learn to Swim at Chicago Blue Dolphins

You’ll learn to float, glide, kick, and swim short distances. Our top priority is eliminating tension so you can relax and enjoy the learning process.

Add breathing to your strokes and increase your distance. You’ll also practice advanced floating for even greater confidence. Prepares you for our deep water classes.

Learn to handle yourself in water too deep to stand in—jumping in, resurfacing, treading, floating, starting/stopping mid-swim, and swimming across the deep end.

Put your deep-water skills into real-life safety scenarios. By the end, you’ll be able to swim through deep water, tread for a full minute, and swim underwater through the shallow end to retrieve objects from the bottom.

Master the balance, arm and leg action, rotation, and streamline positions that make freestyle and backstroke efficient.  We’ll also spend time improving your kicking form and integrating it into the movements.

Build full, simplified freestyle and backstroke strokes you can swim independently at the pool.  We’ll also introduce the foundations of breaststroke and butterfly to give you a taste of those strokes.

At the conclusion of Stroke Development II, you should feel like you move up and down the pool in multiple ways that build fitness and make your pool time more enjoyable.  If you’ve caught the swim bug and want to learn more, you will move on to our Stroke Refinement classes courses, either Freestyle 1 or Three Strokes 1.

At the 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. Our deep water classes will take place in standard 25-yard pools with an 11+ foot deep end on the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) campus.

Small groups for personal attention—maximum 3:1 ratio in Swim Studio classes and 4:1 in deep water classes.

Each adult class is 60 minutes long.

Each class is 60 minutes. Sessions run 4–5 weeks with skill evaluations at the end.

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

We also encourage you to check out our online reviews:
   

Our group classes run year-round with open enrollment—no set end date. You may stay enrolled as long as you’d like. For best results, we recommend a minimum three-month commitment.  You can withdraw at any time; we will apply a $25 cancellation fee if ending within the first 3 months.

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Tuition & Billing

• The tuition for each group class is $302/month
• Tuition is billed automatically each month.
• Enrollment may be discontinued at any time.
• Any unused credits can be (a) kept on your account, (b) transferred to another swimmer, or (c) applied to other services

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Membership & Fees

• Annual Membership Fee: $25 (non-refundable, covers insurance and safety). Renewed each year on your enrollment anniversary.

• Cancellation Fee: $25 if you withdraw during your first three months. No cancellation fee applies after three month.  For full details see “Disenrollment from Automatic Tuition Renewal” on our Policies and Procedures page.

Yes—25-minute and 50-minute private and semi-private lessons are available.  We generally recommend a 50-minute private lesson for our adults to give you more time to learn new skills and practice the old ones.  If you’ve taken lessons before or if you are unsure if private or group classes would be more appropriate, we offer 25-minute skills assessment lessons to help you make that decision.

Lesson Type	25 Minute Single	25 Minute Five Pack	50 Minute Single	50 Minute Five Pack
Skills Assessment	$62.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
Private	$92.00	$437.00	$179.00	$850.25
Two Swimmers (Per Person)	$62.00	$294.50	$123.00	$584.25
Three Swimmers (Per Person)	$46.00	$218.50	$92.00	$437.00

Purchase a 5-pack and save 5%. The $25 annual membership fee applies as with group lessons.

Registration & Billing

• When you register, your credit card will be charged for the first month of tuition.
• You’ll then be placed on automatic monthly payments on that same date going forward.
• Auto-pay continues until you move into a class with a different tuition or you choose to discontinue enrollment.

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Membership Fee

• A non-refundable $25 annual membership fee is charged at registration to cover insurance and safety costs.
• This fee is renewed on each enrollment anniversary if you continue with us (and we hope you do!).

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Cancellation Policy

• If you withdraw within the first three sessions, a $25 cancellation fee applies.
• After three months, there is no cancellation fee.
• For full details, please see “Disenrollment from Automatic Tuition Renewal” on our Policies and Procedures page.

By default, all new students start in our entry-level class—Adult Learn-to-Swim 1.

Other programs often use different class names or focus areas, so it’s hard to match directly. At Chicago Blue Dolphins, we place a strong emphasis on foundations—facial immersion, floating, gliding, and stroke fundamentals. Even if you’ve had previous lessons, reviewing these basics ensures you are ready to succeed in our program.

That said, if you demonstrates the skills to skip ahead, we’re happy to place you in a more advanced class in our sequence. To do so, please schedule a 25-minute private skills assessment with one of our coaches. Call us at (773) 342-7250 or submit an online request below, and we’ll help you find the right fit.

We know that life is busy with packed schedules—here’s how to find the class time that works best for you. You can view the complete swim slass schedule below. Use the filter icon (☰) to sort by day, time, class name, or instructor for the options that best fit your family’s needs.

For tuition and membership details, see “What is the Cost for Group Classes” above.

Fill out the form below to request registration for you in one of our classes.

A member of our team will contact you within 1 business day. Prefer to speak with someone directly? Call us at (773) 342-7250 during office hours:

• Mon–Fri: 9 am – 7 pm
• Sat–Sun: 9 am – 5 pm