Adult squads
Swimmers
Our Adult Squad is designed for confident swimmers who are looking to improve their technique, endurance and speed while training in a social group environment. Swimmers can choose to attend once, twice or three times weekly and it is a great base for improving overall swimming fitness and training for ocean races and triathlons.
To enter the Adults Squad swimmers must be confident in swimming up to 3km in a 1.15hour session and be familiar with squad style training, they should have a rough understanding of an interval (or send off time) they are comfortable with for multiple 100ms of freestyle. If you are interested in our Adult Squads please fill in the form below and we can provide current availability and set up a free trial lesson.
Training
Depending on the swimmer’s ability training will typically be between 2.5km-3.5km in a 1.15hour session. Training will include a combination of skill and drill based technique work, aerobic conditioning, speed training, and a variety of kick and pull sets. Swimmer’s will need to bring to training with them a set of fins, pull buoy and paddles and as their are a variety of different speeds in the squad our coaches provide different intervals and distances accordingly.
Training takes place on weekday mornings from 6-7.15am at the Aquadome and there is parking available next to the pool.
Coaches
Gary Hurring – Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist; World Championship Silver Medallist, Olympic Games triple Finalist. NZ Olympic Coach (London 2012 and Rio 2016).
Kelly Bentley – NZ World Championship representative; NZ record holder, NZ Swimming High Performance Coach.
Georgia Hind - NZ International representative, NZ Open Water Champion
Adult Squad Term Dates 2020
Term 1 - Monday the 20th of January – Friday the 10th of April
Term 2 - Monday the 13th of April – Friday the 3rd of July
Term 3 - Monday the 6th of July – Friday the 25th of September
Term 4 - Monday the 28th of September – Friday the 18th of December
*There is no training on public holidays