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Program Listing

001-Shrimp/Kipper Combo (Ages: 6-18 Months Old w/Parent)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages - ?

This class is designed for a parent and child to learn and have fun in the water together. It combines exercise and basic water skills, plus safety skills for parents.Children under the age of 3 if not toilet trained need to wear a disposable swim diaper AND rubber pants under their bathing suit. Swimmers with long hair must wear a bathing cap or have their hair in a rubber band to keep the hair out of their face.

002-Inia / Perch(Ages:19-36 Months Old w/ Parent)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center

This class is designed for a parent and child to learn and have fun in the water together. It combines exercise and basic water skills, plus safety skills for parents. Children under the age of 3 who are not toilet trained need to wear a disposable swim diaper AND rubber pants under their bathing suit. Swimmers with long hair must wear a bathing cap or have their hair in a rubber band to keep the hair out of their face.

003-Shrimp/Kipper/Inia /Perch Combo (Ages: 6-36 Months Old w/Parent)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages - ?

This class is designed for a parent and child to learn and have fun in the water together. It combines exercise and basic water skills, plus safety skills for parents. Children under the age of 3 and older if not toilet trained need to wear a disposable swim diaper AND rubber pants under their bathing suit. Swimmers with long hair must wear a bathing cap or have their hair in a rubber band to keep the hair out of their face.

004-Swim With Me (Ages: 3-6 Years Old w/Parent)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 3 - 6

Swim with Me is a parent/child class for children who have had two or more previous sessions of water adjustment lessons, are reluctant to enter the water or be submerged, require floatation support all the time, or may beniftit from parental presence and support in the water. Children learn basic arm and leg movements with parents participation. Children under the age of 3 and older if not toilet trained need to wear a disposable swim diaper AND rubber pants under their bathing suit. Swimmers with long hair must wear a bathing cap or have their hair in a rubber band to keep the hair out of their face.

01-Pike
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 3 - 5

Students will learn elementary skills that they will build upon as they progress through each level of our swim lesson curriculum. They will begin to develop positive attitudes and safe practices around the water. successful completion of this level will include Face submersion for five seconds, safely enter and exit the water unassisted, assisted front float with face in water for five seconds, assisted back float for 20 seconds, paddle stroke 10 yards front and back with flotation, alternating flutter kick and jumping into the pool and returning to the side with flotation.

02-Eel
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 3 - 5

Students learn to float on front and back without assistance and recover to a vertical position and learn how to swim unassisted on front and back using alternating arm and leg movements. successful completion of this level will include the ability to roll from front to back and back to front, maintaining each position for five seconds, sitting dive, swim unassisted on front with face submersion for 15 feet and swim unassisted on back for 15 feet.

03-Ray 1
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 3 - 5

students will learn rhythmic breathing, rotary breathing and treading water. Kicking technique, "over" arm stroke recovery and kneeling dives will be introduced. successful completion of this level will include the ability to consistently swim on front with face in the water with rhythmic breathing and "over" arm recovery for 25 feet, backstroke with "over" arm recovery for 25 feet, symmetrical and side alternating paddle for feet yards and kneeling dive.

04-Ray 2
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 3 - 5

Students will improve rhythmic breathing, rotary breathing and treading water in addition to their kicking technique, over arm stroke recovery and kneeling dives introduced in ray 1. successful completion of this level will include the ability to swim on front with face in the water with rhythmic breathing, over arm recovery for 20 feet, backstroke with over arm recovery for 20 yards, symmetrical and side alternating paddle for 20 yards and kneeling dive.

05-Starfish
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 3 - 5

students be introduced to basic swimming and safety skills while learning to properly coordinate strokes for freestyle and backstroke. elementary backstroke, butterfly dolphin kick and standing dives will be introduced. successful completion of this level will include the ability to coordinated strokes for freestyle and backstroke 25 yards (1 length of Bodman Pool), tread water for thirty seconds and perform a standing dive from deck of pool.

06-Polliwog 1 (Ages 6 and Up)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 6 - 8

Students learn how to float on their front and back without assistance and are introduced to arm and leg movements. successful completion of this level will include face submersion for five seconds, safely enter and exit the water, front and back float for 1 minute, front alternating paddle with rhythmic breathing for 40 feet, back, symmetrical and side paddle for 40 feet and jump into deep water without assistance then paddle 15 feet, back float 10 seconds and return to the wall without assistance.

07-Polliwog 2 (Ages 6 and Up)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 6 - 8

Students continue to work on Polliwog skills and build on elementary swimming skills. successful completion of this level will include the ability to submerge face for ten seconds, front and back float for 1 minute, front alternating paddle with rhythmic breathing for 25 yards, back, symmetrical and side paddle for 25 yards, and jump into deep water without assistance, paddle 20 feet and back float 10 seconds and return to the wall without assistance.

08-Youth Beginner Swim Lessons (Ages: 9-12)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 9 - 12

This 45-minute class will help your child gain confidence in the water. This class is designed to teach ?tween? non-swimmers to swim. skills taught in Polliwog through Guppy group lessons will be taught in a small, age-appropriate swim group. Goggles are recommended to help make underwater adjustment easier.

09-Guppy (Ages: 6 and Up)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 6 - 12

Successful completion of Polliwog 1 & 2 is required for this level. Students learn rhythmic breathing, rotary breathing and treading water. Kicking techniques, "over" arm stroke recovery and kneeling dives will be introduced. Successful completion of this level will include the ability to swim on front with face in the water, rhythmic breathing with "over" arm recovery for 30 feet, backstroek with "over" arm recivery for 10 yards and kneeling diving.

10-Minnow (Ages: 6 and Up)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 6 - 12

Students learn to properly coordinate strokes for freestyle and backstroke. Elementary backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly dolphin kick are introduced. Standing dives will also be introduced. Successful completion of this level will include the ability to consistently coordinated strokes for freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke for 25 yards, tread water for 1 minute with effective kick and perform a standing dive from deck of pool.

11-Fish (Ages: 6 and Up)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 6 - 15

Students improve their skills and endurance by swimming freestyle, backstroke, and elementary backstroke for greater distance. Butterfly and breaststroke are introduced. Successful completion of this level will include the ability to coordinated stroke for freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke for 50 yards, demonstrate elements of butterfly and elementary backstroke for 25 yards.

12-Flying Fish ( Ages: 6 and Up)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 6 - 13

Students refine their performance of all 4 major strokes (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle) and increase their distances. Successful completion of this level will include the ability to coordinated strokes in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle swim 100 yards individual medley, perform a standing dive from diving block, freestyle and backstroke flip turns and tread water for six minutes.

13-Shark (Ages: 6 and Up)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 6 - 15

Students work to refine the 4 competitive strokes in order to swim with more ease, efficiency, power and for greater distance. Successful completion of this level will include the ability to swim individual medley 200 yards.

18-Competitive Private Lessons ****Swim Team Members Only Pricing****
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 6 - 19

Need to refine your stroke, get faster racing starts, or improve your flip turns? swim team private lessons help swimmers focus on their personal goals during the Competitive season. lessons are 30 minutes. For more information or to schedule lessons, call Len Wurtzel, Associate Aquatics Director, (732) 741-2504 ext. 23

19-Competitive Private Swim Lessons
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 5 and up

Need to refine your stroke, get faster racing starts, or impove your flip turns? Swim team private lessons help swimmers focus on their personal goals during the Competitive season. Lessons are 30 minutes. For more information or to schedule lessons, call Len Wurtzel, Associate Aquatics Director, (732) 741-2504 ext. 23

20-Private Swim Lessons for ages 3 and up
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 3 and up

Are you or your child intrested in mastering a swimming skill or overcoming the fear of water? Private half-hour, one-on, one swim lessons are available to help. For more information or to schedule lessons, call Len Wurtzel, Associate Aquatics Director, (732) 741-2504 ext. 23

20.1-Make Your Own Class
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 3 and up

This class is perfect for families or friends who want their children to participate in the same class but cannot find a class that fits their schedule or with availability. Participants should be at the same swim level. Privce is for eight, 30-minute sessions, class size up to 4 participants and need to be paid in full at the time of booking. Time availability is subjected to change For more information or to schedule lessons, call Len Wurtzel, Associate Aquatics Director, (732) 741-2504 ext. 23

21-Mini Competitive Stroke Part 1 (Ages: 5 & 6)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 5 - 6

This 45 - minute class will focus on basic swim team fundamentals, skill improvement, exercise, and competitive techniques. When all skills are accomplished in Part 1, swimmers will be moved up to Part 2 at no additional cost during the session. Must be able to swim 50 yards of front and back crawl with open turns, swim 25 yards of breaststroke and kick 25 yards of butterfly prior to class enrollment. Class is limited to 10 participants.

22-Mini Competitive Stroke Part 2 (Ages: 7 & 8)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 7 - 8

This 45 - minute class will focus on advanced swim team fundamentals, skill improvement, exercise, and competitive techniques. Must be able to swim 100 yards of front and back crawl with open turns, swim 25 yards of breaststroke and 25 yards butterfly prior to class enrollment. Class is limited to 10 participants

23-Competitive Stroke Part 1 (Ages: 8 - 11)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 8 - 11

A 60-minute course for the student that has completed the shark level swim lesson and is looking to continue in competitive stroke. The emphasis of this program is on competitive swim technique with some emphasis on endurance.

24-Competitive Stroke Part 2 (Ages: 12 - 17)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 13 - 17

A 60-minute class for the student that has completed Competitive stroke Part 1 and wishes to continue in stroke development. The emphasis of this program is on competitive swim technique with an emphasis on endurance.

25-Special Private Lessons for Special People
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 3 and up

This one-one-one 30 minute aquatic program, taught by our Y Swim Instructors is ideal for special needs children. Lessons are adapted to each child's specific needs and limitations. For more information or to schedule lessons, call Len Wurtzel, Associate Aquatics Director, (732) 741-2504 ext. 23

26-Jump Right In for Youngsters (Ages: 3-6 w/Parent)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 3 - 6

This aquatics class is designed for little splashers with special needs and their parent / caretaker. Children will have the opportunity to explore the water as a therapeutic medium for strengthening weal muscles, normalizing muscle tone, providing senory input, stretching tight muscles, motor planning and body in space awareness, and more. A doctor's note starting that your child is able to participate in an aquatic class is required before entering the water in the first class.

27- "Look, I'm Swimming" (Ages: 6-10 w/Parent)
Red Bank Family Health & Fitness Center
Ages 6 - 10

This class helps special needs children progress at their own rate in a social atmosphere. Independent swimming with or without a float of some kind is the long-term goal. Comfort with their bodies in the water while working on imprtant terapeutic components is the promary short-term goal. Parents / caregivers are required to assist in water during class. A doctor's note stating that you child is able to participate in an aquatic class is required before entering the water in the first class.