Teaching Adults to Swim

In the United States, more than half of adults either cannot swim or do not possess all the basic swimming skills. Teaching Adults to Swim provides swim instructors with lesson plans, tips, and advice that will help their adult swim students to overcome their fear of the water and learn to swim.



Using his Flash Aquatic Swim Technique, swim coach Brian "Flash" Fagan provides detailed instruction for the swim instructor to use when teaching adults to swim. With comprehensive lesson plans, instructors are guided on how to teach the four main swim strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. This book is the instructor's guide to troubleshooting fear of the water or correcting poor swimming skills. There are even chapters on workouts to build stamina and swim equipment so that the student can easily transition from beginner to intermediate swimmer.



By using Brian's teaching method, instructors can quickly put their students at ease in the water. Their students will be swimming the length of the pool, treading water, and even jumping into the deep end with confidence.



Brian "Flash" Fagan has taught and coached swimming for more than three decades. His students have ranged from children to seniors, beginners to professional athletes. Brian was a New York State High School swim champion, and he was a New York State Jones Beach ocean lifeguard for 13 years. He has been a New Jersey Masters age group champion 20 times. Brian is a Level II US Masters swim coach and a certified adult swim instructor. He is the founder of Flash Aquatics Swim Technique and is currently the director of Adult Swim Instruction at the Rutherford Swim Association. Brian and his wife, Renee, live in New Jersey and Florida.