We have four flexible training sessions per week but we understand how busy university life is so attendance to all sessions is definitely not compulsory! Feel free to join us whenever you can make it for any session (or half session!)

N.B.: Our Training Times in Weeks 1 & 2 are slightly different! Check out the Welcome Week page for these.

Fitness and Wet SERCs
​Tuesday

18:30-20:30 at the Swimming Pool

Our Tuesday training sessions consist of a unique swim set, designed specifically by our Speeds Training Officer, Holly, to improve fitness levels and work on both swimming skills and more specific lifesaving speeds skills. These sessions are a great way to keep fit in the pool together as a group and because they involve lifesaving speeds skills, are much more fun than a general swimming set would be!
The second half is overseen by our SERCs Training Officer, Abbie. She will teach first aid skills required for our courses and competitions, and then put these to use in practice SERCs (optional but very fun!)

Speeds Training
Thursday

19:00-20:30 at the Swimming Pool

This hour and a bit will see our Speeds Training Officer, Holly, leading a session containing all things speeds! For league comps (the main focus for term one) this session will be dedicated purely to practising speeds relay events; term two will see focus shift to individual events.
Typical sessions include:

• diving under obstacle gates mid-length
• swimming underwater with fins
• towing each other and manikins on torpedo buoys
• anything else you can spot in this demo video!
  

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Dry SERCs and First Aid
​Friday

18:00-20:00 at the Westwood Lecture Room

This session is taken by our SERC and First Aid Training Officer, Abbie. The first half of this session will be dedicated to general first aid skills, ranging from to tying slings to practising CPR. The second half of this training session will be where we put those skills into practice with team-based SERCs (Simulated Emergency Response Competitions).

Speeds and Wet SERCs
Sunday

15:30-18:00 at the Swimming Pool

This session is dedicated to competition training - not that you need to sign up to any competitions to attend! The first half is taken by the Speeds officer, Holly, where we go though techniques and train for league events. The second half is dedicated to SERC training specific to wet SERCs. This is taken by our SERC officer, Abbie.

Training Times 2024/25 (Week 3 onwards)

Tuesday
18:30-20:30

Fitness / SERC Training at the Swimming Pool

Thursday
19:00-20:30

Speeds Training at the Swimming Pool

Friday
​18:00-20:00

First Aid Training at the Westwood Lecture Room

Sunday
​15:30-18:00

Fitness / SERC Training at the Swimming Pool

Week 1 & 2 Training Times here