I am an extreme amatuer in swimming but would like to step it up and swim for fitness and make it a life long activity.
I know speedos are the swim suit of choice to reduce drag but since I'm just starting out I don't want to look like a fool and I just wear normal swim trunks. When would be a good time make the transition? When I'm confortable enough to were them (ie in good enough shape :))? When I reach a certain fitness level (can swim x distance in x time)? Any opinions/suggestions?
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As competitive swimmers since we were small children, I and my husband both are always kind of baffled by the Speedo issues that people have. To us, a Speedo is just a pair of swim trunks and the body inside of it is just a body (whatever that body's state of fitness). Maybe it comes from hanging around pools and lots of other nearly naked people (admit it - we are nearly naked at the pool!) for almost our entire lives. I can't say that I have thought disdainfully about someone else's body appearance since perhaps junior high. Today we swim with a fairly large master's group that includes people of all ages and shapes (including heavy 55+ men in racing suits) and it truly never crosses our minds to think that someone should not be in a particular kind of suit (except maybe when that suit gets really old and you can see through the butt!!). My guess is if you show up in a racing suit most people won't even notice.
As competitive swimmers since we were small children, I and my husband both are always kind of baffled by the Speedo issues that people have. To us, a Speedo is just a pair of swim trunks and the body inside of it is just a body (whatever that body's state of fitness). Maybe it comes from hanging around pools and lots of other nearly naked people (admit it - we are nearly naked at the pool!) for almost our entire lives. I can't say that I have thought disdainfully about someone else's body appearance since perhaps junior high. Today we swim with a fairly large master's group that includes people of all ages and shapes (including heavy 55+ men in racing suits) and it truly never crosses our minds to think that someone should not be in a particular kind of suit (except maybe when that suit gets really old and you can see through the butt!!). My guess is if you show up in a racing suit most people won't even notice.
