Swim Lessons in New York City

Physique Swim School, New York City:
Physique Swim School in New York City, is a swimming school offering year-round classes to adults and children at all skill levels. Physique Swim School has six excellent locations in Manhattan, one in Queens, NYC, and two in New Jersey. Our programs are designed for swimmers to roll over from one level to another as they develop their swimming technique. This allows students to progress smoothly into skilled swimmers.

Year-round Swim Classes for Adults and Children:


Swimming Classes for Children:

Summer Swim Camp:
Campers plunge into Physique’s daily instructional swim program (morning), as they learn basic swim techniques and safety skills under the supervision and guidance of our Red Cross certified lifeguards and instructors. This year we will start our swim team training, as well as a stroke development lessons at camp.

What We Offer:
- A positive and inclusive social community
- Individual and group instructional sport.
- Swimming twice a day (instructional and recreational organized swimming)
- Daily games of organized team sports
- Weekly intra-camp competition
- Participation in the Physique World Championship (Swimming, Track and Field)
- Top notch instructions for swimming from beginner to advanced
- Awards for sportsmanship, teamwork, leadership.
- Extended day option
- An official camp t-shirt
- And… lots of fun!

Beginner 1 Water Exploration:
Students are beginning to get comfortable in the water and ready to learn how to submerge and to exhale in the water. Float prone and supine without floats. Push and glide from the wall. Kicking frontcrawl and backcrawl and holding a float.

Beginner 2 Primary Skills:
Swimmer should be able to propel on front with out aid 4 – 6 feet. Continue to learn: floating and kicking on front and back. Submerge with eyes open. Begin to develop rhythmic breathing. Combined stroke on front and back (arms and legs coordination. Push off wall, glide, kick and exhale 4 – 7 yards. Jumps and sitting dives.

Advanced 1 Stroke Readiness:
Students have passed beginner level and can swim unsupported. Will learn: arm strokes, leg kicks and breathing coordination. Rotation, treading water, floating, submerging and changing directions. Fundamentals of backstroke and freestyle with rotary breathing. Rudiments of breastroke and butterfly. Sitting and standing dives.

Advanced 2 Stroke Development:
Students move confidently in deep water, perform sculling, continue to improve stroke technique, refine details of breathing and arms actions of front crawl and backstroke. Learn kicks and arms coordination in breastroke and butterfly. Begin to develop starts and turns.

Swim Team Prep - Stroke Development/Skill Proficiency:
Students can demonstrate all of the four strokes. The course focuses in refining technique and developing efficiency through water. Hydrodynamics are emphasized. Starts and turns are improved. The level develops the swimmer’s technique in order to move on to endurance training.

Swim Team Prep II Competitive Swimming:
STPII is for competitive swimmers who are already on a swim team, looking to join all year around/school swim teams or who want to build a foundation for swimming as a fitness lifetime skill. Swim Team Prep II conditions the swimmer by training twice a week for 1 hour each time. The focus of STPII is to perfect technique in the water, conditioning and training. The swimmer will build up fundamentals in development of speed ability through timed work out sets. Hydrodynamics, starts and turns are heavily emphasized through drills and repetition sets.

Master Class Swimming:
Physique is proud to offer this new class in the heart of the Financial District. The swimmer will train, develop stroke efficiency, and endurance. The class is offered twice a week in a 25-meter Olympic Size swimming pool at Claremont Preparatory School. It does not matter what level you are from beginner to intermediate, the experts at Physique Swim School will build up your personal goals through structured works out sets.


Swimming Classes for Adults:

Me & My Shadow - Parent & Toddler Swimming Lessons:
Both the parent and child (under 3 years old) participate in class together. The instructor directs the parents on how to hold their own child in the water and getting them adjusted with the aquatic environment. The class is taught through sing along songs. It is suggested that parents may want to purchase a wet suit in case the child is cold in the water.

Adult Beginners:
No previous swimming experience is necessary. Class focuses on breath control, balance & body position. Class will develop all strokes from the very beginning with an end goal of lap swimming (fitness swimming).

Swim Yoga Workshop Clinic:
The half day clinic includes one 60 minute yoga session and one 90 minute swimming session. The focus of the Swim Yoga Clinic is to raise awareness of balance and breath control to aid stroke development. By using basic yoga principals outside of the water, swimmers will learn a variety of drills that focus on and establish key elements of balance and breath control, which is the solid foundation that enhances all strokes at any level.

Swim Drills:
Intermediate/Advanced Swimmers
Swimmers should be able to swim at least 100 yards. Class focuses on cardiovascular endurance for swimming and stroke refinement. Perfect for triathletes and fitness swimmers.