Good day.
For any who can take two seconds, can you please reply and let me know about your coach your practices?
For example, does your coach put up a workout and just let you swim without any feedback whatsoever?
Or does your coach provide you with corrections, tips or pointers to improve your swimming? I am trying to get a sense of how coaching is handled by other groups.
Thank you and happy swimming.:fish2:
I'm a novice (at age 68), so have no team and no experience with racing, etc. Here's what I found last winter. Our high school has a continuing education program which includes everything from basket weaving to ballroom dancing to masters swimming. There are four different swim sessions one can sign up for. Adult learn to swim. Open swim with no coaching, just a life guard on duty. Stroke improvement with a coach to give you advice on whatever you need, stroke, kick, turns, etc. And masters swimming which was a set workout as others have indicated, distances and intervals written on a whiteboard with timing goals.
I signed up for the masters swim to have others to do the workout with even though I'm too slow to do some of it. If I couldn't do the repeats in the time specified, I merely did fewer with longer rest intervals. So while others might have done a 2500 yard workout, I did 2000. It worked for me. Now, brace yourself, because the price for a 10 week session of any of the above is $30, or $10 for senior citizens. Right, I'm paying $1 a week.
I did also sign up for a few swim clinics from a private coach at $20 per session this fall which was of the stroke improvement type. There were two coaches for about a dozen people. They fixed my stroke mechanics and I learned to do nice smooth open turns. Though it did not speed me up a whole lot, I feel much more comfortable in the water now.
I'm a novice (at age 68), so have no team and no experience with racing, etc. Here's what I found last winter. Our high school has a continuing education program which includes everything from basket weaving to ballroom dancing to masters swimming. There are four different swim sessions one can sign up for. Adult learn to swim. Open swim with no coaching, just a life guard on duty. Stroke improvement with a coach to give you advice on whatever you need, stroke, kick, turns, etc. And masters swimming which was a set workout as others have indicated, distances and intervals written on a whiteboard with timing goals.
I signed up for the masters swim to have others to do the workout with even though I'm too slow to do some of it. If I couldn't do the repeats in the time specified, I merely did fewer with longer rest intervals. So while others might have done a 2500 yard workout, I did 2000. It worked for me. Now, brace yourself, because the price for a 10 week session of any of the above is $30, or $10 for senior citizens. Right, I'm paying $1 a week.
I did also sign up for a few swim clinics from a private coach at $20 per session this fall which was of the stroke improvement type. There were two coaches for about a dozen people. They fixed my stroke mechanics and I learned to do nice smooth open turns. Though it did not speed me up a whole lot, I feel much more comfortable in the water now.
