Over the past few years, Excel has had the opportunity to work with many different athletes in the competitive swim world of Albany NY, including age group, senior, college, and masters swimmers. Like in any sport, there is a common thread among those who truly enjoy and excel (no pun intended) within the sport of…
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Come Swim with Excel Aquatics!
Launch of weekday swim lessons!
Excel Aquatics is excited to announce the start of our very own weekday learn to swim program, year round! Beginning in May, we will be holding the following classes during the week- Weekday Swim Lessons Clifton Park Where: Best Western Clifton Park When: Thursdays, 5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24, 5/31 between 4pm-6pm Weekday Swim Lessons Albany Where:…
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April 2018 Bellyflop!
April 2018 Pre-Summer 2018 Learn to Swim Weekday Program Excel Aquatics’ Weekday Swim Lessons Program proudly launches in May of 2018. These lessons are provided after school hours, with each class being 30 minutes in length. Private (1:1), Semi-Private (2:1), and Small Group (3:1) options are available, with classes scheduled on a 5-6…
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Learning to swim is for everyone!
A lot of the time, there is the assumption that learning to swim is geared for young children. While that is ideal, as cognitive learning skills are developing and it is much easier for them to learn, that doesn’t mean that you can’t learn to swim as an adult. Life happens, we all know that….
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Swim Practice 4/11-Elevator Set
Today’s main set is known as an elevator set-similar to a ladder, you start at one end of a pattern and work your way through, but here you will go back to the top floor four times, changing how far down you go each time… WU-150 Fr/100 Kick/ 50 Fr Primary 200 as 100 pull/100…
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Reminder-TYR Wetsuit Demo Day 4/12
As a friendly reminder, on Thursday April 12th, Excel is hosting our annual TYR wetsuit demo! Where: The College of Saint Rose in Albany, 420 Western Ave When: 5:30pm-7pm *Hurricane Categories 1-5, full sleeve and sleeveless will be available to try on in the water *TYR representative on site to answer any wetsuit questions you…
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Excel Aquatics’ Logo
For the past 4 years, Excel Aquatics has had the opportunity to work with LaSalle Institute’s Advanced Marketing classes on a yearly basis. Each year, a group of students within the class assigned to Excel have helped with various marketing based initiatives, from branding, to community outreach within Albany NY, and even website analysis and…
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Swim Practice 4/4
Here is a triathlon swim practice emphasizing building (ie starting a single swim slower and getting faster throughout to the finish). The point of the primary set is to force the builds in order to encourage energy conservation at the start of any swim….enjoy 🙂 WU-200 Fr/100 Kick/150 Fr/50 Kick (500 total) 16×25 Fr on…
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Backstroke start challenge
Last week, the popular swim content site, SwimSwam posted a very cool video by Fitter and Faster for a fun backstroke start drill (or challenge as we came to realize) to help Backstrokers learn to get up and over the water on the entry portion of their start. After viewing the video, we thought it would…
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Excel Aquatics: Beginner friendly learn to swim program
Over the years Excel has evolved into a multi level program with the goal of provided the highest quality swim lessons possible for families in Albany and Schenectady. Although our curriculum has changed and improved over the time, we have always made it a priority to be a program that helps cater to beginner children…
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