About Swim Smarter

Swim Smarter was created in 1999 by Dan Peck as a private lessons program for triathletes.  After being in and out of pools, Swim Smarter finally found a home at the Coggan Family Aquatics Complex La Jolla when it opened in October 2002.  What was once just a website and lessons expanded to form Swim Smarter La Jolla Masters(SSLM), Swim Smarter Lessons, and the Wind N' Sea Swim Team (ages 6-18). Swim Smarter has over 10 coaches on staff consisting of years of coaching, swimming, water polo and triathlon experience.  

The Swim Smarter masters program has been steadily growing with athletes training for all different venues including Ironman and other triathlons, English Channel crossings,  open-water competition, SEAL training, collegiate swimming, and masters competition. At the 2005 Masters National Championships, SSLM placed 14^th overall as a team out of 100+ teams across the country with 10 national champion swims and numerous top-10 finishes.  Swim Smarter athletes have set World, American, and local masters records and have placed as high as second in the prestigious La Jolla Roughwater.  In 2004, Swim Smarter was a component of training for the oldest woman to complete a continuous double English Channel crossing.  Swim Smarter also runs the Wind N' Sea Swim Team a USA age group team for ages 6-18.

Swim Smarter has developed a reputation for competitive swim workouts that combine aerobic endurance with speed and technique to achieve improvement in all goals.  The coaches all have extensive competitive swimming and coaching backgrounds and understand what it takes to make you faster.  Most still compete in competition, triathlon, water polo or open water swims and treat swimming as a life long sport.  For a complete biographies of our coaches click here.

Swim Smarter has always had a website, but it has not always remained current during the expansion process over the past 3 years.  Now, Swim Smarter Online becomes the next expansion with all new free articles and training tips as well as some new subscription services.  Swim Smarter Online Masters is designed to offer athletes around the world access to a masters program through our membership.  It is designed for those swimmers who don't have access to a program or can't fit it into a tight schedule. Workouts can be accessed daily and will be the exact workouts that have been coached live in our masters program. And coming soon, Swim Smarter, Train Harder is already in construction with a finish date in early 2006.  This is as specific as it gets and we promise you will be impressed as to how Swim Smarter, Train Harder will take your training and competitive goals to new heights with specific seasonal training and workouts based on your exact needs.  Premium content areas with video expansion of our free articles are also in the works.

We are excited to be able to bring our thoughts and training to the rest of the world and are always looking to help out swimmers in need.  While we may set up a premium content area we promise to always have plenty of free information and we try to answer personally to our e-mails if possible.  We offer free trials with no automatic billing or obligations and want you to feel comfortable with our services.

Please let us know how we can make our services better and we hope you enjoy your experience with Swim Smarter.