We’re a well recognised organisation, with a proven programme and years of experience.
Swimgym is a swim school recognised by Swimming New Zealand and the NZ Swim Coaches and Teachers Association as a GOLD Quality Swim School, and is an international member of the Australian Swim Schools Association and Swimming Australia. We pride ourselves in giving back to our community, which involves working with Pakuranga College to keep their pool up to date and have recently, with Howick Intermediate invested over $250,000 on the refurbishment of their tired old 1960’s swimming pool.
The Swimgym learn to swim programme has been operating since 1987, and we’ve expanded from 1 location to 4, with a 5th on Waiheke (over the summer months) over the past 6 years.
We are more than able to cater for your individual needs. Just come in and chat with us. With access to 108 swimming teachers who are all qualified and have over 327 years experience in the industry—we have the right fit for your child.
Swimgym links into the Olympic and World Championships with our team members of HPK swim club.
Our Approach
Our approach to our learn to swim programme is: Swim Well, Swim Fast & Swim Safe.
Swim well is important because we want to make sure that our customers master the technical aspects of swimming. This ensures that you are efficient through the water that you understand the challenges of moving through water, you need to be on the surface rather than underneath it.
Swim fast because we're part of a swimming club. To get to a point where our customers enjoy the sport whether it's any aquatic environment. It could be swimming, triathlon, Water polo. Whatever it is, we want to inspire kids that go through our programme to become youths that are involved in the aquatic sports.
Swim safe because we want our customers to be safe in and around the water and if they think before they jump we’ve had a win.
Why learn to swim with us
We been teaching people of all ages and ability to swim since 1987, we currently deliver over 12,000 lessons per week in our summer months – without loosing that family feel of the swim club.
Gain Confidence In The Water
Let our experts guide you to Swim Well, Swim Fast, & Swim Safe.
We have a range of Instructors that you can choose from, they will guide you through the programme to gain the confidence you require.
Proven Programme
From floating to filling your olympic dream, our 10 week lesson plans are individually designed for each level.
This has been trialed and tested over three decades and we are confident that our proven will work for you or your children.
Four Handy Locations in Auckland
Our four main locations based in East and South Auckland carter for any budget, time and day.
All our locations from our Howick private facility to Lloyd Elsmore, Papatoetoe & Otara have ample parking.
Go further with our club swimming
Eventually you will graduate from Marlins. The next step is going to the swimming club and its 1st squad level which is Dolphins. Dolphins is an extension of Marlins, still highly skill based, and based around developing a love for the sport of swimming.
The genesis of Swimgym comes from the club in the 1980s. There was a recognition that HPK wanted to have control over the delivery of swimmers to its programme. Therefore it set up the swim school. Swimgym has evolved into a program that will look after safe swimming but also swimming well and swimming fast.
HPK consistently performs at the highest level both here in New Zealand and internationally. Our Squad structure is based around a long term athlete development plan however we also understand that athletes grow and develop at their own pace.
Our goal is to ensure that every athlete leaves the HPK Swim squads at the end of their career with fond memories of great performances or great friendships.
Our training pools are the Pakuranga College Pool and the pool at Howick Intermediate School. We train here year round in these heated pools. We have primary use of the Pakuranga College facility outside school hours.