Adult Squad
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 there 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. Terms run consecutively and there is no training on Public Holidays
2023 Term 4 - Monday the 9th of October – Friday the 15th of December
2024 Term 1 - Monday 29th of Jan to Friday 12th of April
2024 Term 2 - Monday 15th April to Friday 5th July
2024 Term 3 - Monday 8th July to Friday 27th September
2024 Term 4 - Monday 30th September to TBC
Coaches
Gary Hurring – Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist; World Championship Silver Medallist, Olympic Games triple Finalist. NZ Olympic Coach (London 2012 and Rio 2016).
Phil Rush – World record holder for the fastest two and three way swim of the English Channel, first swimmer to complete a double crossing of Lake Taupo.
Georgia Hind - NZ International representative, Youth Olympics, NZ Open Water 5km Champion