At my yearly physical last week a funny thing happened. The doctors staff informed me that swimming is not an aerobic exercise and that I would be better off walking briskly for 20 to 30 minutes a couple days each week.
I explained I try to swim 2 to 3 times each week for 60 to 90 minutes,and my workout is prepared by MO, ya'll might recognise that name. They asked me the distance I cover in that time and I responded with 2800 to 3500 yards or 1.5 to 2 miles depending on time.
Not good enough according to the staff. I should be walking. I will let the facts stand for themselves.
Age 48
Wt 149
BP 120/80
Pulse 60
Body Fat 18%
Total Cholesterol 194 (need to eat better)
Well it is off to the pool for another MO workout. Maybe I will walk briskly from my car to the pool and see if that counts. Thanks for those workouts MO I enjoy them.
Have a great day
Paul
Parents
Former Member
Originally posted by Rob Copeland
There are very few clubs where the coach is the main source of outreach and education. While good coaching will keep them coming back, normally fellow club members are the ones who bring new folks in. Typically it is the club officers who should shoulder the responsibility of undertaking new member recruitment. The exception to this is in coach owned programs, where the coach will assume a greater responsibility for recruitment.
In the cases of brand new clubs, it is usually a few motivated swimmers who get together to form the club and then find someone to coach them, rather than the other way around. You won’t normally find a top shelf coach moving into an area without a club just to start a new club. Emmett you can prove me wrong and move to Thomasville; that is if you’re man enough for the challenge:)
Scott Rabalais did just this in Savanah, GA.
One of the things I like about coaching swimming and being in business for myself is that my skills are highly portable. I have no doubt that wherever I might move, starting and building a Masters team would be doable (assuming there is pool spacetime available and a population in at least quintuple digits). Starting a club in a city with lots of existing clubs has the advantage of a high level of visibility and support for the concept of adult swimming.
Starting a club in a city where none exist has the advantage of no competition for potential swimmers (at least at the beginning).
Perhaps the inherent competitive nature of coach makes the challenge of starting a club in the face of lots of competition (business and otherwise) a more attractive thing. Perhaps the business instincts of the entrepreneur make the prospect of instantly capturing a monopoly in a new market appealing. Who knows - I don't think there is a major advantage to either scheme.
If I ever DO move it will have to be someplace where snow days off from school are at least an annual occurance (those were my absolute favorite days as a kid and I want MY kids to experience them too). My inclination would also be to move to a much smaller city than Houston. But I'd have to do sufficient market research to be sure the population and economy would support a program that would be profitable enough to allow my family to live in the style in which it wishes to become accustomed. :)
I agree that MOST clubs, today, are started by a tiny group of like-minded swimmers that slowly draw more and more people into their fold. However, my personal belief is that the growth that will take Masters from 40K members to 400K members will be driven largely by entrepreneur coaches running their own programs (coach owned programs).
Originally posted by Rob Copeland
There are very few clubs where the coach is the main source of outreach and education. While good coaching will keep them coming back, normally fellow club members are the ones who bring new folks in. Typically it is the club officers who should shoulder the responsibility of undertaking new member recruitment. The exception to this is in coach owned programs, where the coach will assume a greater responsibility for recruitment.
In the cases of brand new clubs, it is usually a few motivated swimmers who get together to form the club and then find someone to coach them, rather than the other way around. You won’t normally find a top shelf coach moving into an area without a club just to start a new club. Emmett you can prove me wrong and move to Thomasville; that is if you’re man enough for the challenge:)
Scott Rabalais did just this in Savanah, GA.
One of the things I like about coaching swimming and being in business for myself is that my skills are highly portable. I have no doubt that wherever I might move, starting and building a Masters team would be doable (assuming there is pool spacetime available and a population in at least quintuple digits). Starting a club in a city with lots of existing clubs has the advantage of a high level of visibility and support for the concept of adult swimming.
Starting a club in a city where none exist has the advantage of no competition for potential swimmers (at least at the beginning).
Perhaps the inherent competitive nature of coach makes the challenge of starting a club in the face of lots of competition (business and otherwise) a more attractive thing. Perhaps the business instincts of the entrepreneur make the prospect of instantly capturing a monopoly in a new market appealing. Who knows - I don't think there is a major advantage to either scheme.
If I ever DO move it will have to be someplace where snow days off from school are at least an annual occurance (those were my absolute favorite days as a kid and I want MY kids to experience them too). My inclination would also be to move to a much smaller city than Houston. But I'd have to do sufficient market research to be sure the population and economy would support a program that would be profitable enough to allow my family to live in the style in which it wishes to become accustomed. :)
I agree that MOST clubs, today, are started by a tiny group of like-minded swimmers that slowly draw more and more people into their fold. However, my personal belief is that the growth that will take Masters from 40K members to 400K members will be driven largely by entrepreneur coaches running their own programs (coach owned programs).
