I'm curious how much everyone pays to swim on a monthly basis. The team I used to swim with had to stop due to the University of Washington swim team being cut. We were getting both our pool time and coaches from them. However, the pool is still operating, but now under the intramural department. We're trying to regroup and rent the pool from them, but may need to revise the fee structure.
I'll put up a poll in case anyone wishes to remain anonymous, but I'd really like to know how much you pay per month and how many practice sessions per week that amount gives you access to. Also, please mention if there are any one-time or annual fees to be a member of the team, etc. Another useful piece of info would be how much your pool rental is, if you know. Thanks for your help!
Wow, some of you guys are getting amazing deals. I figured $50 would be a bare minimum for a team that works out at least five days per week.
It might be less amazing if I were forced to calculate my total annual expense on swimming.
http://www.fwmasters.com/ - They have the fee's listed on the web site. I pay $70 a month, but I get to swim in the King County Aquatic Center and I have a choice of two to three workouts a day. Of course, due to my work schedule I only get to swim once a day, but that's where I'm at. I was swimming on my own and lap swim at the Fife pool was $3.50 per swim and at King County it is $5 per swim.
Now I was in Las Vegas a week ago and their coach didn't charge for walk in swimmers. I though that was interesting. After speaking to a few swimmers, they said they just had to pay for pool time, the coach "volunteered" his time. Not sure what the pool fees were.
It might be less amazing if I were forced to calculate my total annual expense on swimming.
Thats what I was saying. I pay 45/month, but that is strictly my team practice dues. i probably run up a bill of 200-300 a year on meet entries alone, not to mention hotel, travel, etc (which i manage to keep down by rooming with returning college swimmers on travel meets)
I pay $65/month. My team has coached workouts Monday-Saturday morning and Monday-Thursday evening. We also swim in one of the most awesome five lane pools ever built pre-1970.
Our coach has a light hand--she might point out stroke issues and she is more active in making such suggestions to more novice swimmers. She certainly doesn't loom over us to ensure we do the workouts she writes or anything like that (well, except on Saturdays which are our most intense workouts). She does write very good workouts which evidence a clear "plan" for training the competitive swimmers on our team for the various meet seasons as well as the hour swim. Plus she's a great person and she just makes me, at least, want to perform. "Coaching" masters swimmers is a very different undertaking than it is for age groupers.
We have a great deal. I pay $30 per month for access to 5 (M-F) coached morning workouts from 6:00-7:30 and 2 (M/W) coached evening workouts from 5:30-6:30. Coaches are excellent and very involved in giving the workouts and giving feedback. No whiteboards ever.
I think I get a $5 discount becasue my kids swim on the club team, but it's still a good deal.
For the morning workout, we have free reign of a very nice 10 lane 25 meter pool. We also get to play with the blocks when we feel like it, pull lane lines as necessary, and basically do whatever we feel like every am.
You also have to buy pool entry. I pay $620 for an annual family pass. An adult 10x punch card runs $27.
You can always come down and swim with us, Kirk, although the commute may be a little rough even by Seattle standards.
$65 a month for 28 coached workouts a week. Yep, 28. Three 1-hour workouts in the morning, one at mid-day, and a 90 minute workout in the evening, Monday thru Friday. Three 1-hour workouts Saturday morning. All in a six-lane pool divided by speed from 1:15 to 2:00. You swim as many or few as you want for the monthly fee. Cal students pay significantly less. I have yet to find any other team with as many workout choices. I have also yet to hear of anyone on our team doing all 28 workouts in a week. I've toyed with the idea but then decided that other things, like sleep and sitting around doing nothing, were more important.
We are an age-group and masters team. Everyone pays a flat fee of $80 per month. Multi-coached practice M-F 6:30-8:00pm. Yearly administrative fee $25 per person or $50 per family.
You can have it either way. There are usually 2 or 3 coaches present. A couple of us "lap" swimmers are transitioning into interval training. We figure, if you're going to go to all the effort, why not capitalize on proven training methods. :bolt:
