STARTS JANUARY 26
LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS
12 Monday Evenings: 6-7 pm
Island Health and Fitness Warm Pool
Registration: Front Desk at Island Health and Fitness: 607.277.3861
Ease: The emphasis in Level 1 is ease and efficiency. We begin with an intensive investigation and refinement of balance and hydrodynamics. This is the most effective way to reach your swimming goals:
- Learn how to swim freestyle sustainably
- Increase your endurance, confidence and enjoyment
- Improve your triathlon swim performance
Efficiency: Whether you want to increase speed or endurance, start by reducing your exertion and increasing the distance you travel for each stroke: First, discover and refine your ultimate “streamlined, hydrodynamic vessel”. This vessel enables you to glide through the water and maintain balance.
Move through the water, without moving the water around.
Breathing: Ah… O2 in H2O: Perhaps the most challenging element of freestyle. After establishing a strong foundation of balance and hydrodynamics, in the second half of our 12-week program, we explore breathing through specific drills and sensation-based focal points. It is possible to breathe with ease.
We use the Warm Pool extensively for Level 1.
Please check out testimonials from a diversity of past “graduates”.
Discovery: We work (actually we play) with drills and sensation-based focal points (both dry-land and in the pool) that empower us to use gravity as the primary means of propulsion. Shane calls this “Effortless Power”. (Sure beats pulling, kicking and screaming, huh?) We also introduce the basic principles of integrating breathing with an efficient freestyle swim technique.
At the conclusion of Level 1, swimmers are at ease in the water and have neurally imprinted an efficient technique that empowers them to swim at a relaxed and aerobically sustainable pace – either with pauses or continuously. (Balanced, hydrodynamic and with gravity-sourced propulsion.) Some are able to completely integrate this technique with breathing, some are still in the process.
Class fee: IHF Members: $220, Non-members: $260
To register: Front Desk at Island Health and Fitness: 607.277.3861
Please check out testimonials from a diversity of past “graduates”.
Kaizen-durance® 