LEISURE AT THE SWIMMING POOL
Swimming Pool in Cork CITY
District Health & Leisure in Cork City boasts a 25-meter 4 lane swimming pool with a depth from 0.8 meter to 2.2 meter. For the best experience, our pool, just 5 minutes from Cork city centre offers a varied selection of activities such as Children and Adult Swimming Lessons, Aqua Aerobics & Triathlon Training. Most importantly, the pool facilities are always available to members with a scheduled timetable available at reception. We also have a beautiful state of the art sauna and steam room that will enable members to relax, rejuvenate after a workout or long day at the office.
We have created a number of Gym Membership options to suit you and your specific needs. The memberships packages include singles and couples, half year, off peak, swimming pool only and OAP options.
PARENT, BABY & TODDLER SWIMMING LESSONS
A fun, friendly and enjoyable swimming class designed for 4 months to 24 months or 2 to 4-year-olds, where the parent and baby are in the water together. Swimming strengthens baby’s arms, legs, and neck muscles along with their heart and lungs. Swimming classes and submersions are baby-led and water is proven to calm babies and promote better eating and sleeping patterns.
BEGINNER SWIMMING LESSONS WITH ARMBANDS FOR CHILDREN
This is our introductory level for children completely new to swimming and children with no previous swimming experience. Our aim is to introduce basic pool rules, general water safety and how to navigate the pool, in a fun learning environment.
ADVANCED BEGINNERS SWIMMING
Advanced beginners is aimed at children who are confident out of their depth, without the use of armbands and able to kick legs with face in the water.
IMPROVER SMIMMING LESSONS
Improvers level strongly focuses on stroke work and improving the use of arms and legs. The aim is to achieve a full length of the 25-metre pool working on accurate front crawl arms and legs and back crawl arms and legs.
ADVANCED IMPROVER SWIMMING LESSONS
Advanced Improvers build on the swimming techniques learned in Improvers level. Working on perfecting the strokes and breathing to combine into a seamless movement.
LANES/COACHING SWIMMING
Our highest and most advanced level, aimed at children with a strong swimming ability. This level focuses on building stamina, strength, and distance. Sets children up for competitive levels of swimming.
ADULT SWIMMING CLASSES
For Adult Swimming Lessons in Cork we cater for all levels, abilities and ages. It is our ethos that absolutely everybody can swim. We have an experienced team of swimming instructors who will patiently help you along the way, whether it is starting off on your swimming journey or looking to improve on your current ability.
All courses are 10 weeks and class duration is 45 minutes for adults. Courses cost €125 for members or €180 for non-members.
ONE-ON-ONE SWIMMING LESSONS
For individuals who may not be comfortable in a group setting we offer personalised private swimming lessons with our highly trained instructors. For people with additional needs the instructor can be requested to be present in the water to help you learn how to swim.
These lessons are based on a 6 week course at a cost of €210 for members or €240 for non-members.
TWO-ON-ONE SWIMMING LESSONS
For two people who would prefer personalised swimming tuition together, we offer private lessons with one of our experienced swimming instructors.
These lessons are based on a 6-week course at a cost of €360 for members or €420 for non-members.
Swimming Pool Family Changing Facilities
NEW Family Dressing Room Gallery
Eilís Burns
Our Head
Swimming Coach
Eilís Burns is a level 3 swimming coach and a psychotherapist who has combined these two professional paths to become one of the most successful marathon, open water, triathlon, beginner, and pool swim coaches in Ireland. With over 36 years of experience Eilís has helped develop a multitude of swimmers to date.
In 2018 she was inducted into the Marathon Swimming Ireland Hall of Fame for her efforts as a coach. In 2018 as swim coach extraordinaire, Eilís was among just 15 women worldwide nominated for the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA) Woman of the Year Award.
Not only does Eilís bring a wealth of high-performance coaching experience, but she too is an accomplished ex-international swimmer, water polo player, an Irish Masters Swim record holder, and a seasoned marathon swimmer herself.
Eilís, who has put thousands of Cork swimmers through their strokes, is a renowned pool coach, and excels in improving stroke and devising training programmes.
She is behind the success of dozens of Channel swimmers and marathon swimmers living in Ireland and further afield, with no expectation of payment – instead she asks that they raise funds for a charity of their choice, which to date has topped €150,000.
Eilís is thrilled to accept her new position as Head Swimming Coach in DISTRICT. She is proud to be part of this exciting new venture, and hopes to continue to be a leading light in developing swimming in our members at DISTRICT.
“It’s a way of giving back to society what I have got out of life through swimming. Once you teach people to swim, the world is their oyster. I want them to have the love and freedom of the water”
our swimming pool facilities
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