Hello all! I've browsed the forums a bit but this is my first real post. I guess I should start with my background. I am a 21 year old personal trainer who recently fell in love with swimming. Before I started swimming I was a competitive weight lifter. I started training about 4 months ago and I swim about 20 hours a week and I'm still in the process of trimming my weight down. I was really inspired to start trying to get competitive but because of my age and height (5'9) i got kinda turned off. Is there any hope of me competing at a moderately high level at my height and age? I know I only have 3 years till I move up a bracket in nationals so I was curious on others opinions if I was just wasting my time.
Hello all! I've browsed the forums a bit but this is my first real post. I guess I should start with my background. I am a 21 year old personal trainer who recently fell in love with swimming. Before I started swimming I was a competitive weight lifter. I started training about 4 months ago and I swim about 20 hours a week and I'm still in the process of trimming my weight down. I was really inspired to start trying to get competitive but because of my age and height (5'9) i got kinda turned off. Is there any hope of me competing at a moderately high level at my height and age? I know I only have 3 years till I move up a bracket in nationals so I was curious on others opinions if I was just wasting my time.
Welcome
You're young. Being a former weight lifter my guess is you are very strong. It would be very worth your while to learn proper technique so you could apply your strength to the pool. Events that favor shorter stronger swimmers are Breastroke & sprints, especially sprints involving streamline dolpin kick, which we call SDK.
if you want to "compete at a moderately high level"
you need to know what your times are
so have someone time you for a 25, a 50 & a 100 all out
you can swim faster faster
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
Hello all! I've browsed the forums a bit but this is my first real post. I guess I should start with my background. I am a 21 year old personal trainer who recently fell in love with swimming. Before I started swimming I was a competitive weight lifter. I started training about 4 months ago and I swim about 20 hours a week and I'm still in the process of trimming my weight down. I was really inspired to start trying to get competitive but because of my age and height (5'9) i got kinda turned off. Is there any hope of me competing at a moderately high level at my height and age? I know I only have 3 years till I move up a bracket in nationals so I was curious on others opinions if I was just wasting my time.
Welcome
You're young. Being a former weight lifter my guess is you are very strong. It would be very worth your while to learn proper technique so you could apply your strength to the pool. Events that favor shorter stronger swimmers are Breastroke & sprints, especially sprints involving streamline dolpin kick, which we call SDK.
if you want to "compete at a moderately high level"
you need to know what your times are
so have someone time you for a 25, a 50 & a 100 all out
you can swim faster faster
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
