The MUSC Wellness Center offers a heated, indoor 25-meter swimming pool ideal for lap swimming, aquatic training, classes, and a variety of therapeutic uses.
Monday - Thursday: 5:30 am to 9:45 pm
Friday: 5:30 am to 6:45 pm
Saturday: 8:00 am to 4:45 pm
Sunday: 9:00 am to 5:45 pm
The pool closes 15 minutes earlier than regular facility operating hours.
The Wellness Center offers swim assessments that can serve as a starting point for a beginner swimmer or to assess stroke mechanics and technique for a current swimmer.
The cost is $40.00 for both members and non-members for a 40 minute session. Contact Kathleen Wilson to schedule an upcoming swim assessment.
Swim assessments are limited to one per person.
No matter what your level, the Wellness Center's swim instructors can help you reach your goals!
The standard swim instruction package includes four 30 minutes sessions. Pricing as follows:
Customizable packages are also available.
Kathleen Wilson
Kathleen Wilson has a multi-faceted background in aquatics. As a competitor, she specializes in marathon swimming, having completed many of the world's greatest swims and was the first South Carolina resident to swim the English Channel. While still actively training and competing in marathon swimming, she has coached numerous swimmers to successful outcomes of other major marathon events and currently serves as the coach for MUSC's Wellness Center Swim Club. As a swim instructor, she enjoys working with adult students and is founder of SwimCalm, a program designed for adults with fear of water and who wish to learn to swim. Kathleen was enshrined into the SC Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2018!
Aquatic exercise is extremely versatile with far reaching body impacts. Do you have achy joints, especially knees and hips?
Try the water if you wish to reduce strain on your joints yet build muscle. Moving through the water is the ideal way to strengthen and improve the length and flexibility of a whole range of different muscles without the added stress of gravity. It is truly a full-body mode of exercise with virtually no special equipment needed- just a swimsuit and a towel! For lap swimmers, a pair of goggles is recommended.
Looking to change up your cardio routine?
Swimming builds endurance, muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness. It is a terrific way to create a healthy mix of gym or land cardio with the benefits of the water.
“Swimming exercise affects lung volume as respiratory muscles including diaphragm of swimmers are required to develop greater pressure as a consequence of immersion in water during respiratory cycle. This may lead to functional improvement in these muscles and also alterations in elasticity of lung and chest wall, leading to an improvement in forced vital capacity and other lung functions of swimmers.” Source: Determinants of lung function changes in athletic swimmers. A review
In addition, water exercise helps you maintain a healthy weight, healthy heart and lungs.
Do you want to begin water exercise but not swim laps?
Water exercise is versatile. Simply walking in the water provides an increased cardio output through the resistance that water offers. Adding additional movements in a water exercise class or adding equipment such as noodles or water dumb-bells can boost the intensity of work. If not a confident swimmer, this is an excellent way to reap enormous benefit while in the water. Consider one of the water exercise classes offered, jump in and enjoy this tremendous asset found at MUSC Wellness Center.
