Some of the benefits for adults taking up swimming include stress relief as well as the development of greater confidence. Swimming is a non-load bearing sport, which means joints are under far less pressure than in a sport such as running, and as such it may help with injury recovery.

Adult Skills & Stamina Awards
The ASA’s Adult Skills & Stamina Awards are designed to help people to gain confidence in water and to further develop their swimming ability through achievement of Levels 1-5. For each level, a number of different skills will be required, including a demonstration of stamina. The skills cover a variety of requirements in the water including water confidence, floating and sculling, propulsion/strokes and entries.

To achieve each of the five levels of these awards a participant will be required to maintain an Adult Skills & Stamina log book which is available free of charge.