BUILD YOUR STYLE
Build your freestyle. Build your confidence.
Salty Fit’s signature 4-week freestyle foundation program.
Build Your Style is designed for swimmers who want to develop a more efficient, confident freestyle stroke—whether you are learning freestyle for the first time, returning to swimming, or already able to swim but know your technique is holding you back.
You might be someone who can only swim a few laps before needing to stop.
Or perhaps you can already swim 500m, 1km or more, but feel like you are working harder than you should, swimming slower than you’d like, or simply don’t understand how to make your stroke more effective.
Build Your Style teaches you the foundations of efficient freestyle so you can swim with better technique, less effort and more confidence.
Rather than overwhelming you with too much information at once, we break freestyle into four progressive building blocks, allowing you to develop your stroke step by step.
Over the 4 weeks you’ll learn:
🏊 Breathing
Develop a more functional breathing pattern for freestyle by learning how your breath, body position and stroke rhythm work together.
You’ll learn how to breathe efficiently in the water without lifting, twisting or disrupting your stroke — creating the foundation for smoother, more relaxed and sustainable freestyle swimming.
🏊 Stroke Coordination
Learn how to coordinate the key elements of freestyle — your breathing, arm stroke, body rotation and timing — to create a more connected and effective stroke.
You’ll develop better movement patterns, improve balance and coordination, and learn how to activate the appropriate muscles to create more efficient movement and prepare your stroke for greater propulsion.
🏊 Alignment & Balance
Improve your body position, alignment and balance in the water so you can move more efficiently with less resistance.
You’ll learn how improved flotation, posture and body awareness allow you to conserve energy, reduce drag and create a smoother, more effortless stroke — allowing the water to support you rather than constantly fighting against it.
🏊 Propulsion, Speed & Power
Learn how to apply your improved technique with greater strength, control and effectiveness.
Building from the foundations developed throughout the course, you’ll discover how to access your natural strength, create more effective propulsion and translate better technique into increased speed, distance and swimming efficiency.
Learn how to apply your technique with greater strength, control and effectiveness.
Each session builds on the previous week, helping you understand not only what to do, but why it makes your swimming easier.
By the end of the program, swimmers are supported to progress towards swimming 500m–2km continuous freestyle, depending on their starting point, consistency and individual goals.
Build Your Style is the foundation for:
🌊 Ocean swimming
🏊 Triathlon
🏖 Surf club swimming and Bronze Medallion preparation
💪 Swimming for fitness
🏅 Becoming a stronger, more confident swimmer
Many Salty Fit swimmers have started their journey here and gone on to complete ocean swims, triathlons and continue progressing through our swimming pathway.
Is Build Your Style right for you?
This program is suitable if you:
✓ Are learning freestyle for the first time
✓ Can swim freestyle but only for short distances
✓ Can swim longer distances but feel inefficient, exhausted or unsure of your technique
✓ Are self-taught and want to rebuild your stroke correctly
✓ Want a structured pathway to improve your swimming
You don’t need to be fast.
You don’t need previous squad experience.
You simply need to feel comfortable in deep water and be willing to put your face in the water.
If you’re unsure which program is the best fit, complete our New Swimmer Questionnaire and we’ll help guide you.
Program Details
📍 Prince Alfred Park Pool
Saturday | 12:00pm–1:00pm
📍 Cook + Phillip Pool
Monday | 5:45pm–6:45pm
4 Week Program
1 session per week — $190
2 sessions per week — $297
What’s next after Build Your Style?
Refine Your Style
Build the fitness to achieve your swimming goals.
Refine Your Style is the natural next step for Build Your Style graduates and for swimmers who can already swim 500–1000m continuous freestyle but want to become more efficient, swim further, and learn how to train with purpose.
Whether your goal is to improve your speed, build endurance, prepare for an ocean swim, complete a triathlon, or simply become a stronger swimmer, this five-week progression program gives you the tools to train smarter—not just harder.
Building on the foundations developed in Build Your Style, you’ll revisit familiar drills at a more advanced level while learning how to integrate them into real swim training.
Advance Your Style
Fine-tune your freestyle. Learn to train smarter.
Advance Your Style is designed for swimmers who have completed Refine Your Style (or can comfortably swim at least 1000m freestyle) and are ready to bridge the gap between technique-focused coaching and regular squad training.
Each 60-minute session combines 30 minutes of targeted stroke correction with 30 minutes of structured swim training, giving you the opportunity to immediately apply technical improvements while building fitness, endurance and confidence.
Online Build Your Style Course
Now you can build (or improve and rebuild) your freestyle anywhere and anytime, at your own pace too!
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Swim Questions for New Joiners
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