Help! I'm going to my first practice ever for a master's swim team on Sunday morning. I've been swimming on my own since March and have worked up to 50 minute sessions-a little over a mile-3 days a week. I've never been coached or trained before, so the whole thing has me pretty intimidated. I've been reading the forum and from what I see, you all seem to recommend team training to improve. I'm over 40, still about 10 pounds heavier than I'd like to be but not in horrible shape. I'm a little nervous that I won't be able to keep up or that people will resent a slow untrained swimmer messing up their practice.
Any advice?
Thanks!!
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funny, dude-but I was being serious. It's easy for people who were swimmers in high school or college. For those of us who have never done this kind of thing everything about it is intimidating. There are "unwritten rules", the language is unfamiliar and there are lots of people that are better at it. The only way to keep the sport growing is to welcome and encourage beginnners-unless growing the sport isn't really a major objective.
funny, dude-but I was being serious. It's easy for people who were swimmers in high school or college. For those of us who have never done this kind of thing everything about it is intimidating. There are "unwritten rules", the language is unfamiliar and there are lots of people that are better at it. The only way to keep the sport growing is to welcome and encourage beginnners-unless growing the sport isn't really a major objective.
