Swimming & Aquatics

Swimming & Aquatics

The YMCA has been America’s leading swimming instructor for more than 100 years! Swim lessons are essential for kids to become safe around the water as well as to learn how to set and achieve their goals. The YMCA of Central Texas offers swim lessons for all ages, open swimming at outdoor pools (when in season), swim certifications, and swim team, and group water exercise. Swimming is a fun and enjoyable activity for children and adults alike, and it’s an easy way to stay physically active and improve strength, flexibility and stamina.

Swimming Benefits

  • Water Safety Skills
  • Physical Fitness
  • Community and Fun

YMCA swimming programs prioritize water safety education, ensuring participants gain essential skills to be safe in and around water.

Swimming is an excellent full-body workout, enhancing cardiovascular health, muscle strength, and endurance, while being gentle on joints.

YMCA swim programs foster a sense of community, offering a fun and social environment for people of all ages to enjoy while improving their swimming skills.

Swimming Benefits

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Water Safety Skills

YMCA swimming programs prioritize water safety education, ensuring participants gain essential skills to be safe in and around water.

Physical Fitness

Swimming is an excellent full-body workout, enhancing cardiovascular health, muscle strength, and endurance, while being gentle on joints.

Community and Fun

YMCA swim programs foster a sense of community, offering a fun and social environment for people of all ages to enjoy while improving their swimming skills.

YMCA of Central Texas Lightning Policy

When it comes to swimming and water safety, no one is trusted more than the YMCA, America’s Swim Instructor. In fact, group swim instruction was developed by the YMCA in 1906. Here is our lighting policy in regards to our indoor and outdoor pools:

  1. When lightning is within ten miles, suspend all activity in the pool area and evacuate people to the established safe area(s). Guards should clear the entire pool area and lock the entrance. Frequent in-service trainings with lifeguards and staff as well as clear communication with the swimmers will help to achieve this goal.
  2. Resume activities only when safe.
    • Assuming typical storm speeds (20 to 25 mph), you may resume activities in the pool 30 minutes after the last observed lightning or thunder. Lifeguards must be sure to be in appropriate position for surveillance before activities resume. Continue to monitor for additional severe weather.

Water is an excellent conductor of electricity; the structure surrounding a pool, whether outdoor or indoor, may also be conductive. Many victims of lightning are not struck directly but are injured when electric currents transverses the ground or a structure. Swimming pools and their attendant structures are connected to vast conductive networks consisting of underground water pipes, gas lines, telephone and electric cables.

Swim Programs

Private Swim Lessons

Private (1:1) & Semi-Private (1:2) swim lessons can be used for anyone who has a need or desire to attend classes outside of the “group” format. 

Group Swim Lessons

Swim Lessons provide important life skills that could save a life, and will benefit you for a lifetime. Our group swim lessons are 1 instructor to a group of 4-8 kids depending on the class or location.

Swim Programs

The YMCA Swim Teams & Programs are ideal for those beyond the age for progressive swim classes yet too young for adult classes. Highly trained aquatics instructors work one-on-one with each participant to set personal goals and meet new challenges.

Certifications

The YMCA of Central Texas supports and encourages safe and effective programming by making available a wide variety of YMCA and national certifications and training opportunities for professionals working to help people live healthier lives. Whether your interest is personal or professional, the YMCA has a safety course to meet your needs!

Water Fitness Classes

Join our nationally-certified instructors in the pool for a fun and challenging workout. Work at your own ability level during a variety of water exercise classes with the encouragement from friendly, welcoming classmates. Water exercise classes utilize the resistance and buoyancy of the water to improve cardiovascular fitness, strength, and flexibility.

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