In what countries, besides USA, is Masters Swimming "big"? Now, it's very difficult to define excatly what I mean by masters swimming being "big" but let's define it like this:
1. An arbitrarily chosen city with a population of more than 100,000 in the particular country would be likely to have a masters team with at least 10 members.
2. Annually there should be at least 5 masters swim meet being held in the country.
So basically, if I reside in the particular country in a not too small city, I'd be likely to be able to join a masters team and compete without having to travel abroad.
I found Swim Fit to be beneficial. I managed to do a number of their on-line guided workouts. Isn't getting into a pool and moving what its all about anyway? I've recommended to USMS to look at the Swim Fit program and see if they can adopt some of its material for swimmers in the USA.
Swim Fit is great. As a programme, I like it. But the question was about Masters swimming, and Swim Fit is not UK Masters swimming. I've attended a few Swim Fit sessions (as fins are considered dangerous weapons in most public sessions here). If you know what you're doing, they can be great. You get a workout and some like-minded folks to join in with. However, you can also get someone sitting at the end of the lane, telling people who don't know how to swim butterfly to do 4x50 fly and not doing anything to help them improve their strokes, just watching them struggle and only get from one end of the pool to another because they're wearing fins.
I found Swim Fit to be beneficial. I managed to do a number of their on-line guided workouts. Isn't getting into a pool and moving what its all about anyway? I've recommended to USMS to look at the Swim Fit program and see if they can adopt some of its material for swimmers in the USA.
Swim Fit is great. As a programme, I like it. But the question was about Masters swimming, and Swim Fit is not UK Masters swimming. I've attended a few Swim Fit sessions (as fins are considered dangerous weapons in most public sessions here). If you know what you're doing, they can be great. You get a workout and some like-minded folks to join in with. However, you can also get someone sitting at the end of the lane, telling people who don't know how to swim butterfly to do 4x50 fly and not doing anything to help them improve their strokes, just watching them struggle and only get from one end of the pool to another because they're wearing fins.
