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Freestyle coaching for adults · Amsterdam Zuidas & Amstelveen
Personal coaching for adults who want to learn freestyle, or make the stroke they have smoother and more efficient. Small steps you can check yourself, a clear route, and a premium club where you can swim as often as you like to practise.
Two starting points, one method. Your coach confirms where you begin during the try-out.
Learning freestyle · Freestyle Introduction
Starts once you can swim 100 metres breaststroke on your own.
Improving freestyle · Freestyle Improvement
Training for a triathlon or open water? Tell your coach; it shapes your plan.
How coaching helps
When freestyle feels hard, breathing is rarely the whole story. Body position, timing and how much effort each stroke costs matter just as much. Your coach looks at the whole stroke and picks one change at a time.
An example
Your coach explains what your arm does above the water. Then you notice the moment your hand moves from wet to dry, and touch your shoulder on the way forward. You can feel whether each small step worked, without having to picture joint angles.
Your try-out
Lessons and investment
Every price is all-inclusive: your coached lessons plus the club, where you can swim as often as you like.
One swimmer, one coach
Your coach’s full attention and the most adaptation. A good fit if you’re working towards a date, such as an event.
€99 per lesson
Once a week, Amstelveen · Amsterdam Zuidas €109. Twice or three times a week: €89 / €99.
Two swimmers, one coach
Train with a partner or friend who has a similar freestyle goal.
€79 per person, per lesson
Once a week, both locations. Twice a week: €69 per person.
Up to five swimmers
Freestyle Introduction and Improvement groups are being planned. Each swimmer works on the same topic and moves on when ready. Want to hear when they start?
Coming soon
Lessons last 45 minutes. Swimming on your own is included, as often as you like. First 12 weeks, then continues every 4 weeks.
All prices and terms →Private lesson availability →Between lessons
Your membership includes the club, so you can come swimming as often as you like, during the club’s swimming hours. Use those swims to repeat what your coach showed you, at your own pace. Swimming twice a week does not have to mean two lessons.
Your own swims are without a coach. The pools are usually calm: in our experience, two or three people sharing a lane already counts as busy.
Your route
There’s no fixed sequence. Your try-out shows where you start, and you move on when you’re ready. Some swimmers go straight to breathing and rhythm, or to Improvement.
From no freestyle to 1 km, our coaches plan for roughly 3 to 6 months privately or 7 to 9 months in a group, swimming twice a week. Everyone’s pace differs, so treat this as a guide, not a promise.
Beyond one kilometre
Not currently running
Once freestyle feels like yours, the next step depends on what you want from swimming: fitness, distance, a triathlon or simply a routine you enjoy. Swim Workouts are structured training sessions at three levels, with technique still part of every session. Personal coaching can continue alongside for any specific goal.
Build stamina and technique for longer swims, mixing breaststroke and backstroke variations.
Freestyle and overall endurance, for steady, efficient distance swimming and triathlon beginners.
Sustained freestyle at higher speeds, including sets of 1.5 km and more, for experienced swimmers and triathletes.
Already a confident swimmer or triathlete? Private coaching is available now at both locations. Mention your goal when you book your try-out, and we’ll advise the right starting point. About the levels
“…I was not able to do 25 meter front crawl without feeling exhausted.”
“I can totally recommend his classes!”
“Great knowledgeable instructor!”
Short excerpts from Google reviews of The Swim Academy, Amsterdam Zuidas. See on Google Everyone progresses at their own pace.
In 30 minutes your coach sees where your freestyle is now and shows you the first step. Whether you continue is up to you.
