Hello,
I have not posted here before, but I need help. Hopefully some in this group will have ideas to share.
I'm a member of my local YMCA, which has a Masters Team. It's a really great group of people, and I would hate to see it go away. But our YMCA has decided to start treating us like an organized sport, rather than like a class (like aerobics or spinning). They're planning on charging us each $400 per year to be a memeber of the masters team, in addition to being a full program member ($55/month). Maybe it's just me, but this seems WAY out of line, especially since nearly every class is offered to full members for FREE (including spinning and aerobics). This expense could be justified if someone actually coached us, but our "coach" just writes the workouts on the board, and sits there watching to make sure nobody drowns. By the way, our pool is a 3-lane, 25-yard pool, that's generally kept at 88 degrees.
A fair number of people in the group have mentioned that they'll drop out before paying. And the YMCA will terminate the program if we don't have good membership.
Has anyone else dealt with a similar situation? Could someone from USMS or YMCA on the national level be of help? Am I going off for no reason?
Help!!!
Lou Savastani
Parents
Former Member
Y's seem to have a philosophy similar to health clubs. They seem to give a lot of time to water aerobics. Its a popular thing these days and a lot of women, like Jim saids don't swim but they like to do it. Even during the open swim period at the health club I'm at they like to do water aerobic actvities. I think that a small group like yours would be better off with a lap swimming format/open swim. Now at the rec pool I go to, the water aerobics people don't hog the pool and they have certain classes that are usually not at the same time as the lap swimming time. Sometimes for us to get more time, we need to go to more than one pool in the area if its available.
Y's seem to have a philosophy similar to health clubs. They seem to give a lot of time to water aerobics. Its a popular thing these days and a lot of women, like Jim saids don't swim but they like to do it. Even during the open swim period at the health club I'm at they like to do water aerobic actvities. I think that a small group like yours would be better off with a lap swimming format/open swim. Now at the rec pool I go to, the water aerobics people don't hog the pool and they have certain classes that are usually not at the same time as the lap swimming time. Sometimes for us to get more time, we need to go to more than one pool in the area if its available.
