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!
Forgive me but I had to offer this tidbit for the digression on swimsuits. In my Masters group last fall I initiated an "Ugly Suit" contest that was a nice diversion and worth a few hoots! No big prizes but maybe I'll come up with one. The winner was a woman who came with a suit so baggy it hung down to her knees! (She had another suit underneath to preserve her modesty.)
Forgive me but I had to offer this tidbit for the digression on swimsuits. In my Masters group last fall I initiated an "Ugly Suit" contest that was a nice diversion and worth a few hoots! No big prizes but maybe I'll come up with one. The winner was a woman who came with a suit so baggy it hung down to her knees! (She had another suit underneath to preserve her modesty.)
