For swimming instructors
Next week’s lesson, written from what actually happened this week
Set the level, the age, the pool and what fell apart last time. Half a minute later you have blocks with minutes on them, drills your group has not just done, and the exact words to say across the water.
No account, no card. A real plan for your own group, not a sample.
Session 7 · 45 min
Live from the engine · level 2 · ages 6–9 · 45 min
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drills, matched to level, age, pool and the kit you actually have
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from six answers to a plan you can teach straight from
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drills invented by the model — it may only use the library
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plans a month free, forever, with no card
Sunday night. Four groups. One blank page.
The plan you wrote is gone
It was on a page in a notebook, or in your head. By the time the group comes back, you are rebuilding it from memory.
Every group is three groups
One swimmer is gliding, one still will not put their face in, one is bored. The same drill cannot serve all three.
“How is she doing?”
A parent asks at the rail with twelve kids in the water. You give the answer you can give in four seconds.
Three steps, and the third one is the whole point
Describe the lesson
Level, age band, how many swimmers, pool, what equipment you have, what went wrong last time.
Get the plan
Warm-up, main set, consolidation, game, cool-down — each with minutes, drills and a one-line cue you can shout across the water.
Say how it went
Three taps per swimmer, or just talk into the phone on the deck. That is what next week is built from, and what the parent updates are written from.
Live from the engine · level 2 · ages 6–9 · 45 min
The whole plan, not a teaser
Everything below came out of the drill engine when you opened this page — level 2, ages 6–9, 45 minutes, a kickboard and a noodle. It is the same library your own plans are built from. Nothing here was written for this page.
Work on submersion and breathing
Warm-up and getting in
7 minShallow-water giant walk
Walk the width and back along the wall, arms sweeping waves across the surface.
Say: “Walk like a giant, make big waves”
Main set — technique
18 minMouth bubbles at the wall
Lips in the water, one long steady exhale. 10 repetitions.
Say: “Blow on hot tea”
Mushroom float
Tuck underwater and let the back surface. 6–8 repetitions.
Say: “Hug your knees and float up”
Nose and mouth bubbles
Face in the water, exhale through nose and mouth. 3 sets of 8.
Say: “Breathe out through your nose and no water gets in”
Consolidation
11 minSwimming with noodle under the chest
Lengths along the wall, gradually removing support.
Say: “Legs working, arms pulling”
Submerged squats with exhale
Full submersion with a complete exhale, 8–12 repetitions.
Say: “Sit on the bottom and blow it all out”
Game
5 minRed light, green light
Shallow-water game, 5–7 minutes.
Say: “Freeze!”
Cool-down
4 minAssisted jumps from the edge
6–8 jumps, gradually reducing support.
Say: “Jump to me — I'm right here”
A PDF cannot remember your Tuesday group. This does.
From the second session on, the plan is built against the ones before it. Twelve weeks in, it knows more about your group than a fresh template ever could.
Week five stops looking like week one
Anything you ran in the last two sessions drops down the ranking, so the group is not doing the same drill for a month.
What broke last time goes first
The problems you flagged are pulled to the front of the main set, while attention is still fresh.
Every swimmer keeps a history
Marks, your notes and the updates you sent stay attached to the child, not to a session that scrolls away.
Clients leave when they cannot see it working
Nobody quits a swimming course because the coach was bad. They quit because six weeks in, nothing they can point at has changed. A parent who is shown "she now floats on her back for five seconds, unaided — 14 October" renews without being asked.
Every client sees their own line
Level, what they can do now, what is next. Not marks and not jargon — the same list you would read out at the rail.
Forty clients stay separable
Groups, one-to-ones, every session, every note, every message you sent. Nothing lives in your head or on a page in a notebook.
You see who is stuck before they leave
The same problem three sessions running reads as stalled on the screen. That is the week to change the approach, not the week after they stop coming.
And the message to the parent, already written
Mark how everyone did — or just say it out loud on the deck and let the phone take it down — and each parent gets a short, specific note about their own child. You read every one before it goes anywhere.
Hi Anna — today we worked on the back position, and Sofia held it on her own for a full width for the first time. Getting into it still takes her a couple of goes, so we spent the second half of the session on nothing but the entry, and by the end she was doing it without my hand under her back. Next week we add a slow arm to the same position. That is the fiddly part, so expect a session where it looks a little scruffier before it settles. If you are in the bath this week, ask her to lie back and look straight up at the ceiling for a count of ten — that is exactly the shape we want. See you Tuesday.
What an update never contains
- A diagnosis, an injury, or anything medical
- A comparison with another child in the group
- A promise that she will be swimming by summer
- A single word you have not read first
What it costs
Three plans a month are free, forever. Paid lifts the cap and starts remembering every swimmer you teach, across every group.
Free
$0three plans a month
Enough to run a group off. No card, and the first plan needs no account either.
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Before you ask
- Does it invent drills?
- No. Drills come from a fixed library and are matched to level, age, pool and the equipment you actually have. The model is handed that shortlist and may not step outside it — it only arranges the session and writes the wording.
- What if I have nothing but the water?
- Turn every piece of equipment off and you get a plan of drills that need none.
- Can I really just talk into it?
- Yes. After a session you can dictate what happened instead of typing it, and that goes into the next plan and into the parent updates. The tick-boxes stay for when you would rather tap.
- Is this going to tell parents something I would not say?
- Updates never mention injuries, medical conditions, or how one child compares to another, and never promise a timeframe. Anything you dictate about a child’s health stays in your notes and is never repeated to a parent. You read every message before it goes anywhere.
- Do I have to set up anything to try it?
- No. The first plan needs no account and no card, and it is a real plan for a real group, not a sample.
Your next lesson is already in the timetable
Build the plan for it now. It takes less time than finding the notebook.
No account, no card. A real plan for your own group, not a sample.