Spend three days in the Lake District and improve your swimming. Swim Clinic is a two-night break, dinner included, with a focus on swimming. Practice your technique in our 25m infinity pool, then try wild swimming in Ullswater lake with our professional swimming coach for guidance.
Dates:
9 – 11 November 2018 – from £320pp
1 – 3 March 2019 – from £330pp
27 – 29 September 2019 – from £350pp
6 – 8 December 2019 – £330pp
Location: Start from our private jetty
Duration: three days and two nights
Group: Based on two people attending the swim clinic weekend sharing a standard double with bed & breakfast
To book swim clinic please
contact our events team:
Call: 01768 486442
Email: [email protected]
OR
and add swim clinic to your enquiry details
Learn with video analysis and a combination of land, pool and lake sessions. Understand more about your swimming style, the importance of streamlining, body alignment and ‘hydro-statics’.
Our experienced swim coach will talk your through positioning, breathing and overall technique. By the end of the course, you’ll have the confidence to take your swimming further.
Swimming is the ultimate low-impact sport, working all the main muscle groups and providing all round cardio-vascular fitness.
And, when you’ve worked up an appetite, Rampsbeck Restaurant and The Living Space await.
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Arrive and settle into the hotel
8am – Theory session
9am – Pool session
12noon – Optional Aira Force walk and café/ picnic lunch.
3pm – Lake swim (dependant on weather, conditions and water temperature)
6pm – Pool session including possible video analysis
7.30am – Debrief
8.30am – Pool or lake swim session
10am – Brunch/debrief
Arrangements can be made for wetsuit hire or purchase through Salim at Swimlab.
Swimsuit, goggles, flip flops for walking down to the lakeshore, swim hat.
Swimming wetsuit if you have one. If you don’t we can help to arrange a hire wetsuit. Alternatively you can buy one through us at a 20% discount.
Walking gear – waterproofs, boots, hat etc.
Sun cream and sunglasses.
Depending on the weather, we will be using the 20-metre warm pool inside the hotel’s Swim Club, or Ullswater – the lake which the hotel rests on the shores of.
The walks are likely to be gentle around Aira Force, a National Trust waterfall.
Ideally you should be able to swim at least four to eight lengths of a 25-metre pool without stopping, using front crawl and/ or breaststroke.
Please inform us of any medical conditions or injuries at the time of booking.
We will send you out a questionnaire before the weekend to find out about your swimming history, and personal objectives.
The Swim Clinic will be run by Salim Ahmed, founder of the alternative swim coaching group SwimLab. Salim is an STA qualified Instructor with a history of coaching. Clients include Shepperton Open Water, Becky Adlington’s Swim Stars, University of York, David Lloyd Triathlon Clubs and The Royal Marine Commando Swim Team.
The methodology focusses on developing the most efficient stroke for open water swimming. The aim is to get you to fall in love with and connect with water. The rest will just follow!
Essential guidelines to ensure you swim safely.
Another Place supports the Lake District National Park’s SwimSafe campaign – a code to follow that aims to keep you safe whilst swimming.
Be seen by boats.
Exposure to cool water can rapidly lead to hypothermia
Ullswater is busy with boats. People on boats may struggle to see swimmers. A collision with any boat can be fatal.
