Save time, remove frustration, and have a thriving swim program that is FUN and EFFECTIVE.

Membership gives you the tools and guidance so your swimming program is bursting with laughter and excitement. Embrace our proven Activity, Activity, Challenge formula where challenges and games reinforce essential swim skills.

Through repetition, fun, and feedback that gets results you’ll remove the stress out of inventing how to teach swimming and reconnect with your love of the water and seeing children learn with laughter.

Membership Includes:

• Teaching Swimming Online Course
• Teach Swimming Year 1 Online Course
• Level Structure Online Course
• Developmental Swim Coaching Online Course
• Essential Swim Skills Tutorial Video Course
• Teaching Swimming Book PDF
• Lesson Coordinator Handbook PDF
• Visual Skill Sheets: quick reference guides for vital swimming skills of all levels (12 pages) PDFs
• SwimSheets: custom hand-drawn progressions for level agnostic skills (Underwater and Glides, Crawls and Breathing, Breaststroke, Butterfly, Refining Freestyle) PDFs
• General Lesson Plans: Levels 1-4, PDFs
• Weekly Lesson Plans: Parent Tot (6 weeks). PDFs
• Guppies: Games and Goofiness PDF
• Weekly Lesson Plans: Level 1 (4 weeks). PDFs
• Weekly Lesson Plans: Level 2 (Two 4-week progressions). PDFs
• Weekly Lesson Plans: Level 3 (4 weeks). PDFs
• Weekly Lesson Plans: Level 4 (4 weeks). PDFs
• Swim America Stations Lesson Plans (10 stations, 14 sheets). PDFs
• How to Create Fun and Effective Swim Games eBook PDF
• How to Create Fun and Effective Developmental Swim Practices eBook PDF

What’s Included in Aquatic Professional All Access

Transform your swim school with the Aquatic Professional All Access tools and materials. This membership gives you a complete “operating system” for your program, from pool deck instruction to back-office management.

1. A Proven, Structured Teaching Methodology

Implement a specific, tested formula designed to make instruction consistent and effective across every member of your staff.

• The “Activity, Activity, Challenge” Formula: Utilize a framework that perfectly balances “deliberate practice” with fun. Lesson plans follow a rhythm where two skill-building activities build focus, followed by a challenge to release pressure and reset the learner’s attention.
• The “3x SL + [Something]” Framework: Deploy a standard scaffold for developmental skill work. This allows instructors to swap in any skill (like 3 strokes of freestyle) while consistently reinforcing the critical habit of streamlining.
• Deliberate Practice: Shift away from mindless repetition. Our methodology emphasizes short-distance bursts (under 8 seconds) to minimize mental fatigue and allow for immediate feedback.

2. Comprehensive Staff Training and Management Tools

Equip your coordinators and directors with everything they need to recruit, train, and retain top-tier talent.

• The Lesson Coordinator Handbook: A complete resource for managing staff, featuring a 6-hour training block plan to onboard new hires effectively. It includes guides on commanding attention, giving feedback, and managing personnel.
• Onboarding and Career Pathing: Show your staff a future with your agency. We outline a clear path for longevity, moving from online courses and shadowing to independent teaching and a “Leadership Mentorship Program” for aspiring coordinators.
• Scripts for Difficult Situations: never let your staff feel unprepared. We provide specific scripts and strategies for talking to “tough parents,” managing fearful children, and addressing concerns on the pool deck.

3. “Indestructible” and Visual Teaching Assets

Reduce prep time and eliminate confusion with tangible tools designed to be used directly in the water.

• Ready-to-Use Lesson Plans: Get immediate access to daily lesson plans for Parent Tot, Guppies, and Levels 1–4. These are formatted for printing on waterproof “Terra Slate” paper so instructors can take them right into the pool.
• Visual Skill Sheets: Ensure correct progressions and body positions with hand-drawn visual guides for essential skills (e.g., Breaststroke, Butterfly, Turns).
• Rapid Assessment Tools: Categorize swimmers quickly and accurately. Use our level assessment forms, report cards, and “Quick Test” criteria to place swimmers in the correct level (e.g., Level 1 vs. Level 3) in under 30 seconds.

4. A Massive Library of Games and Drills

Make swimming fun to drastically increase retention and student engagement.

• Extensive Game Database: Browse a comprehensive list of games for both learn-to-swim and competitive teams (including favorites like “Buckethead” and “Treasure Hunt”), all categorized by the specific skills they teach.
• Game Creation Guide: Never run out of ideas. We teach you how to invent new games by identifying a core skill and adding creative roadblocks or themes.
• Iterative Challenges: Learn how to scale challenges up or down, allowing instructors to suit different ability levels within the exact same class.

5. Administrative and Business Support

Streamline the business side of your swim school with professional operational support.

• Business Planning: Utilize templates for market analysis, financial planning, and operational structures designed specifically for swim schools.
• Program Design: Access guides on customizing level structures, scheduling classes, and organizing groups, including steps for transitioning from paper tracking to digital systems.
• Digital Management: Your team membership includes access to SwimLessons.Pro, an online system for tracking skills, levels, and issuing digital report cards.

Teaching Swimming Book PDF

While the online course has all of the same information and more, you can use the print book PDF to view exclusive discussion questions and quizzes to better build your swimming knowledge.

Membership includes the online course as well as the full PDF to the print training workbook.

View the book on your favorite tablet or phone, or printed out the old-fashioned way.

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Lesson Coordinator Handbook PDF

Prepare your management staff and yourself for running swim lesson training classes. This book is designed for Aquatic Professionals and their middle-management staff.

Follow our block plans for an in-person swim instructor training course using the Teaching Swimming online course and workbook. This Lesson Coordinator handbook will give you everything you need to conduct your class and train new hires to teach fun and effective lessons.

View the book on your favorite tablet or phone, or printed out the old-fashioned way.

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Visual Skill Sheets

These sheets cover a diverse array of crucial swimming skills with a consistent format to quickly teach the essentials.

From left to right columns are Picture, Script or Phrase, and detailed instructions.

Give these Visual skill sheets to your instructors, your coaches, or your swimmers.

From Streamline to breaststroke drills these sheets are perfect for training staff and building a better swim program.

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General Lesson Plans

Veteran swim instructors don’t need a weekly lesson plan. Not always.

As your staff increases their mastery and builds a base of swimming knowledge give them these simplified level specific guides to prompt their imagination.

Follow the tested and effective formula for swim lessons and swim team practices: activity, activity, challenge.

Teachers can draw from a bank of level specific activities and challenges.

Allow for creativity and a more natural flowing class time when your staff has a guide without being too restrictive.

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Give your staff an easy to read guide to teach swimming with minimal training.

Your instructors will find them easy to read and follow their color-coded and numbered plans. Each activity and game is explained in detail. We provide songs with lyrics, skills with pictures, descriptions, and instructions on how to teach each essential swimming skill. The lesson plans have detailed songs, games, lyrics, guides built right into their color-coded awesomeness.

Premium Swim Lesson Plans Include:

• Swim America Lesson Plans: 10 Stations, 14 sheets
• General Swim Lesson Plans for Levels 1-4.
• 6 Days of Parent Tot classes
• 4 Days of Level One
• 8 Days of Level Two
• 4 Days of Level Three
• 4 Days of Level Four
• 11 Visual Swimming Skill Sheets: Streamline, position 11, Supported and unsupported front glides, supported and unsupported back glides, Breaststroke arms, breaststroke kick, breaststroke drills, and breaststroke progression.

Better swim lessons

Have you ever thought to yourself:

“I just wanted to make my swim lesson program better?”

There is an easy way to improve your swim lessons in almost every facet: provide your staff with easy-to-use effective swim lesson plans.

That might be daunting, but there is help.

New updates to the weekly lesson plans are here as of October 2021. 

We feel like it’s important to keep updating our lesson plans and guidance. As we refine our systems and battle-test our lesson plans you get the benefit of better instruction. 

If you’ve used the general lesson plans you’re familiar with the formula: Activity, Activity, Challenge. That format is now coming to the weekly level-specific swimming lesson plans. 

Printer-friendly weekly lesson plans for level-specific instruction.

Level 1 Lesson Plans

Give these lesson plans to your swimming instructors to prepare for their class and use in the water.

Lean into a tested formula that maximizes learning and fun: Activity, Activity, Challenge.

Look at the “goals” section at the top of the page. Each day we give lesson-specific goals to the swim instructor designed to ensure a high-quality lesson.

Level 2 Lesson Plans

Build on going underwater and move into glides, front crawl arms, and floating independently.

Continue using the rotation method and our proven Activity Activity Challenge formula to produce high repetition opportunities and let swimmers grow!

Level 3 Lesson Plans

Continue with the super-effective rotation method but use longer distances, lanes, and no more benches.

Swimmers will start learning front crawl breathing and develop better backstroke, breaststroke, and fly kick.

Activity, Activity, Challenge continues its incredible effectiveness and challenges become more complex, difficult, and exciting!

Build the freestyle competitive swimmer quickly following our lesson plans!

Level 4 Lesson Plans

All four competitive strokes are now taught! From Butterfly to Breaststroke and flip turns and open turns we’re working on distances and IM.

The adaptable activity, activity, and challenge formula even holds up in these Developmental Swim Team-type lesson plans.

Use a mix of short-distance skill work and longer-distance endurance building to prepare swimmers for competitive swim team tryouts or start training on your own.

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SwimSheets

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Visual skill sheets with lesson plans and general guidance for beginning and veteran swim instructors.

We learn through visual information best when it comes to swimming. We can demonstrate or ask someone else to perform the skill we’re asking our participants to do.

Here are hand-drawn, custom-made visual Instructor sheets that cover the essential swim skills for both swim lessons and beginner swim team programs.

With these new plans, you’ll have your new staff teaching like pros in no time and your veteran staff refining their technique to match the updated pictures and guidance.

Make your swim lessons more effective. Give your staff a powerful tool that they can use in the water or on deck in training.

Sheets cover:

• Underwater and Glides
• Crawls and Breathing
• Breaststroke
• Butterfly
• Refining Freestyle
• Flip turns
• Open turns

Why SwimSheets?

Everything is packed into one sheet. Swimming involves a litany of nuanced skills and precise movements. The SwimSheets make teaching swimming easier. Get everything you need from doing glides and going underwater to flip turns and breaststroke.

Each sheet has two crucial elements: Picture based example side and Skill Progression example side using the Activity, Activity, Challenge formula.

Page 1:

Follow the basics on the picture-based example side. For breaststroke, you can see how the arms and the kick are broken into their component pieces with guides to teaching them. Turn the complicated breaststroke arm movement into simple 11, Eat, 11.

SwimSheets can teach your swim staff and the students! Show them the pictures and have them mimic them.

Page 2:

On the reverse side of each SwimSheet see an example progression of skills following the proven formula for fun and effective instruction, Activity, Activity, Challenge.

In the above example you can see the progression of the front crawl with glides, glides with arm strokes, and then arm strokes with a single breath. Included are directions, pictures, and illustrations to make referencing the skills easier. Finally, at the end look at the challenges that tie in a future skill or promote an essential swim skill.

Quicker staff learning. More effective instruction.

Give your staff a laminated copy of the SwimSheets when they’re learning how to teach swimming. Give them a copy of the pdf!

Each SwimSheet covers a broad topic like Glides and Underwater, Crawls and Breathing, or Breaststroke.

Want your new instructor to focus on teaching front glides? Give them the Underwater and Glides sheet.

Want your swimmer to better understand how to put together breaststroke? Review the pictures and elements on the Breaststroke SwimSheet.

When I’m training new instructors or assistant coaches I want them to have an easy reference for fast delivery and minimal intervention.

I give them the SwimSheets.

Here are all the downloads you’ll get access to:

Download Files

I want to…

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Easy Print Lesson Plans and Visual Skill Sheets: Everything in one PDF file

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Download the ”Teaching Swimming: Fun and Effective Instruction Workbook v4” PDF

Download the ”Lesson Coordinator Handbook” PDF

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Teach a specific skill:

• Underwater and Glides
• Streamline
• Position 11
• Front Glides
• Back Glides
• Crawls and Breathing
• Refined Freestyle
• Breaststroke Arms and Kick
• Breaststroke Drills and Progressions
• Breaststroke
• Butterfly
• Flip Turns

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Teach a level specific lesson:

• Guppies
  • Games & Goofiness
• Level 1
  • Day 1
  • Day 2
  • Day 3
  • Day 4
• Level 2
  • Day 1
  • Day 2
  • Day 3
  • Day 4
• Level 3:
  • Day 1
  • Day 2
  • Day 3
  • Day 4
  • Repeatable
• Level 4
  • Day 1
  • Day 2
  • Day 3
  • Day 4
  • Repeatable
• Parent and Tot
  • Reoccurring (repeatable)
  • Advanced participants (repeatable)
  • Day 1
  • Day 2
  • Day 3
  • Day 4
  • Day 5
  • Day 6

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General lesson plans for more advanced instructors:

• Level 1 General
• Level 2 General
• Level 3 General
• Level 4 General

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Monthly Lesson Plans: from Paid Newsletter

• September 2024
• October 2024: Rotation Method
• October 2024: Teaching Swimming Workbook v4 preview
• November 2024: Streamline & Position 11
• November 2024: Short Distance Training & Chunking
• December 2024: Glides & Underwater
• January 2025: Support to Independence
• February 2025: Back Glides to Independence
• March 2025: Level 3 Repeatable Lesson Plan
• April 2025: Level 4 Repeatable Lesson Plan

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Evaluate Swimmers by Level:

• Level 1 Evaluation
• Level 2 Evaluation
• Level 3 Evaluation
• Level 4 Evaluation

Paper one-sheet for level assessment of swimmers:

Evaluate swimmer by level and skill one-sheet

• This one-sheet is ideal for having a single sheet for every swimmer in your program. If you’re technology adverse, and want to have all of your swimmers on a single sheet of paper for all of their level and skill progress, then use this document. Print on indestructible paper like Terra Slate.

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Lap Swimmer Tips:

Guides and visuals for lap swimmers to improve their freestyle.

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Swim America Stations 1-9:

Swim America Lesson Plans for each station

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E-Books

How to Create Fun and Effective Swim Games PDF

How to Create Fun and Effective Developmental Swim Practices PDF

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