Hey,
I haven't had a good swimming workout since December 2002 when my High School swim team fell through. Thats about 8 months without a good workout. I was pretty good in high school a few county appearances and almost a state. I swim all the strokes and I want to improve but I know that I will need a lot of work also. I want to start swimming again this year in college and maybe join the University swim team by next year. My question here is does anyone have any good tips for someone who has been out of swimming for awhile and to stay motivated while swimming? And my second question is does anyone have good swimming or dryland workouts or tips that I could use to make the college team by next year? You could email me at mfruth1625@hotmail.com...
Thanks,
Matt
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The College swim team I want to join has attainable times that I can reach with a little bit of hardwork and enthusiasm. With my times now I would not be one of the slowest swimmers on the college team but I would not be any of the fastest swimmer either. I started swimming competively when I was in the 10th grade. My times made me first and second within my division meet during my rookie year. The only times that I would train for swimming would be during the swimming season which lasted about 4 months. But when the next swimming year would come around I would shread more time off on all of my times. I consider swimming as one of my natural talents and now I look back and realize how dumb I was not to swim all year around because if I did I would be be even a faster swimmer. Its not that I wouldn't be good on a college team, I would like to just have even better times then I already have. I would like to try it all year around to see the improvements and I would like to add a little muscle on also in the process. If I join any of the community colleges here they will be just slowing me down. I just want to practice swimming really hard to see if I can still be an asset to a team like I once was. If I do not feel like my mind is in the right place over the course of my freshmen year I will just keep swimming to stay in shape. If I feel like I will make a contribution to the team and my mind is in the right place by the end of the year then I will join the 2004 team. Thank you for the comments and encouragement by the people who have responeded to my post.
-Matt
The College swim team I want to join has attainable times that I can reach with a little bit of hardwork and enthusiasm. With my times now I would not be one of the slowest swimmers on the college team but I would not be any of the fastest swimmer either. I started swimming competively when I was in the 10th grade. My times made me first and second within my division meet during my rookie year. The only times that I would train for swimming would be during the swimming season which lasted about 4 months. But when the next swimming year would come around I would shread more time off on all of my times. I consider swimming as one of my natural talents and now I look back and realize how dumb I was not to swim all year around because if I did I would be be even a faster swimmer. Its not that I wouldn't be good on a college team, I would like to just have even better times then I already have. I would like to try it all year around to see the improvements and I would like to add a little muscle on also in the process. If I join any of the community colleges here they will be just slowing me down. I just want to practice swimming really hard to see if I can still be an asset to a team like I once was. If I do not feel like my mind is in the right place over the course of my freshmen year I will just keep swimming to stay in shape. If I feel like I will make a contribution to the team and my mind is in the right place by the end of the year then I will join the 2004 team. Thank you for the comments and encouragement by the people who have responeded to my post.
-Matt
