Swimming Lessons For All

Whether you are a beginner or advanced swimmer, MercyOne Health & Fitness Center offers swim lessons for all ages and all skill sets. Our instructors teach participants how to swim in a logical progression as well as how to be safe in and around water.

Group Swim Lessons

We offer group swimming lessons in a variety of skill levels and age groups. Sessions run for 6-weeks. Check with Member Services for the current schedule.

Group Swim Lesson Rates

Parent & Child/Beginner 1 and 2 (30-min sessions)
Member $75, Non-Member $100

Levels 1-6/Adult (45-min sessions)
Member $90, Non-Member $120

Private Swim Lessons

We offer private swimming lessons for both children and adults. Whether you need to learn the fundamentals of swimming or put the finishing touches on your strokes, one-on-one lessons will help you reach your goal.

Private Swim Lesson Rates

Member/Non-Member,  30-min sessions            45-min sessions
1 session                                $35/$40                         $50/$55
4 sessions                             $135/$155                      $195/$215
8 sessions                             $255/$295                     $370/$410

Levels & Lesson Description 

Parent/Child (6 months – 3 years old): Parents and children learn together to increase the child’s comfort level in the water and build a foundation of basic skills, such as arm and leg movements and breath control.
Beginner 1:  Introduction to water skills: help students feel comfortable in the water, retrieve items under the water, as well as learn to float with assistance.
Beginner 2: Fundamental aquatic skills: learn to float without assistance, swim for 10 feet without assistance, as well as front and back glides.
Level 1: Fundamental aquatic skills: basic front crawl and backstroke for 20 feet, jumping offside of the pool safely and swimming back to the wall without assistance.
Level 2: Fundamental aquatic skills: treading water, rotary breathing with basic front crawl.
Level 3: Stroke development: completing a full 25-meter swim across the pool with a variety of strokes.
Level 4-6: Stroke improvement: develop confidence in the strokes learned as well as the introduction of more strokes and survival floating.
Stroke refinement: further coordination and refinement of strokes with a 100-meter swim.
Swimming and skill proficiency: refine strokes so students swim with ease, efficiency, power, and smoothness over greater distances. Retrieval of 10lb objects from the bottom of the pool.
Adults: Adult skills will be taught in accordance to what is needed/wanted by adults. Ranging from Levels 1-6.

For more information, please call (515) 226-9622 or complete our contact form.