The Race Club

The Race Club offers swimming camps that are unique in many aspects and rewarding for all. First, we customize our camps to meet the campers’ needs. For example, we design the camp around the time you are able to spend with us, whether it is one day or one week, hoping to accomplish your goals in that time frame. Second, we specialize in helping all swimmers of any ability or any age. The only requirement is that you know how to swim. Third, and most importantly, we offer you the kind of individual attention you need by keeping our camp groups very small (usually less than 10 campers). For your convenience, we also offer our camps in two beautiful locations, Islamorada in the Florida Keys and the University of Miami in Coral Gables.

One of our primary goals is to help you become one in being with the water. The more comfortable and natural you are in the water, the better swimmer you will become. To this end, we focus on teaching the three important fundamentals of faster swimming; streamlining, using your body effectively and sustaining your speed. In addition to emphasizing the correct stroke techniques, we also spend time on starts and turns, understanding that paying attention to small details in swimming make big differences in improvement.

The Race Club is proud to offer the best underwater video imaging and software available. Analyzing your strokes underwater and from different angles is a vital part of improving your skill. Without the advantage of HD underwater video with stop-action and slow motion, you will never appreciate or recognize the details that will make you faster.

Finally, though about 80% of our camps are dedicated to improving technique, we will also introduce you to some of the creative Race Club training methods. Besides showing you some novel swim workouts, we will also introduce you to the methods of stretching, strength training, mental training, nutrition and recovery that have helped our athletes succeed. All of these disciplines are important in order for you to maximize your improvement.

The Race Club has a proven record of success at the Olympic Games, but you don’t have to be an Olympian or even a ‘wanna-be’ Olympian to benefit from our camps. In fact, some of the greatest pleasures we have are from improving the skills of a fitness swimmer who simply wants to get better, or the Triathlete who hasn’t quite mastered the art of swimming in open water. Any swimmer can benefit from a Race Club camp.

For younger swimmers who are looking for a more traditional training camp, we offer that too. In June and July each summer we host three one-week training camps at the University of Miami for swimmers ages 9 to 19. Here, we focus about 80 % of the time on Race Club training and 20 % on technique. You will stay in the dormitories near the pool with supervision and can train from one up to three weeks. Come prepared to work hard and have fun!

The Race Club camps are designed for the entire family so you may enjoy the beauty and surroundings of the Keys or Miami while you also experience the best swimming camp of your life! With nearly 60% of our campers returning every year, we must be doing something right! We hope to see you here soon.