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Forest City YMCA
916 West I St
Forest City, IA 40536
Phone: 641-585-5220
Email: info@ForestCityYMCA.org

Adult Swim-From Basics to Fitness
Adult Swim courses are intended for older teens and adults wishing to improve their knowledge of, and skill in, the water. Adult Swim offers three options to meet specific needs and interests—Learning the Basics, Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes, and Swimming for Fitness.

Adult Swim-Learning the Basics is designed to help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming strokes, including the front crawl, breaststroke and elementary backstroke. Participants also learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around water, in addition to those needed to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency.
Purpose
Introduce basic aquatic skills and swimming strokes.
Learn important concepts needed to stay safe around water.
Prerequisites
No skill prerequisites

Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes seeks to improve participants’ proficiency in basic aquatic skills (including rotary breathing, surface dives and treading) and the six basic swimming strokes (i.e., front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, breaststroke, elementary backstroke and sidestroke). (The butterfly stroke is optional.) Participants also learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around water, in addition to those needed to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency.
Purpose
Improve participants’ proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes.
Participants also learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around water, in addition to those needed to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency.
Prerequisites
Participants must be comfortable in chest-deep water.
Participants must be able to put thier face in the water.
Participants must be able to able to perform strokes that can be recognized as front crawl, breaststroke and back crawl, each for 15 yards

Adult Swim-Swimming for Fitness focuses on refining the participant’s front crawl, back crawl, and breaststroke strokes and turns, and building endurance. (The butterfly stroke and turn are optional.) Participants also learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around water.
Purpose
Refine strokes and turns, and build endurance.
Learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around water.
Prerequisites
Participants must be able to swim the Front Crawl 25 yards.
Participants must be able to swim the Breaststroke 15 yards.
Participants must be able to swim the Back Crawl 25 yards.
