Driving to work this morning I had a thought about how to “perk” up USMS. My friend belongs to this online diet club --Ediets or something. I watched her log on to her exercise and she has a running log of what she has done for her workouts, calories, food intake, message/support boards, professional help/support online chats etc.
What do you think about applying these ideas to USMS? Have a work out section with programmed swimming workouts each week (yes I realize we have this at the message boards too). We could just personalized into a individual home page of sorts? A sports nutrition section, a time conversion section, a meet section, all centralized off a USMS personal home page and we could track our progress, goals etc. Take all the great stuff that is scattered around the message boards and web site(s) and streamline all the options .
OK Ediets, just with swimming plugged in for weight loss…
The Big question is would you pay USMS extra for something like this? --Hey, I'm an idea lady, let the assistant web master handle the technical! LOL!
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This is an area that could really benefit USMS in member retention. there is also the President's challenge. It is a way to track your workouts.
Something I would love to see from national is a 1-mile a day club, swimming around the world and new month/new stroke. these would help those who swim for fitness and not necessarily for competiton fell connected to the goal oriented competitive people on the team.
Also, now that we will have more editorial control of hte magazine, the true benefit will be that national can direct information to specific swimmers and their needs. this could become one regular section.
This is an area that could really benefit USMS in member retention. there is also the President's challenge. It is a way to track your workouts.
Something I would love to see from national is a 1-mile a day club, swimming around the world and new month/new stroke. these would help those who swim for fitness and not necessarily for competiton fell connected to the goal oriented competitive people on the team.
Also, now that we will have more editorial control of hte magazine, the true benefit will be that national can direct information to specific swimmers and their needs. this could become one regular section.
