Okay, what do you think of this idea...
We just had our Short Course meters meet. We had about 100-120 swimmers at this meet.
It's held in a dive well, 8 lanes.
Right next to it is a 50 meter pool with lane lines strung up for short course Yards... Some 16 or so lanes.
Entire time maybe 6-8 lanes were busy with warm-ups/warm-downs. The rest of them were gaping empty.
So, I thought... There's room at the pool, there's capacity on the bleachers, there's lot of food (chili, hotdogs, pancakes, BBQ etc) still at the snack bar.
How about if these things are available during, and in addition to just the swim meet:
- Fitness swimmers, come cheer for your competitive teammates, and join the hosting team for a COACHED workout! (for a nominal fee) See what the swim meets are all about. Hang out and join us for a BBQ. Usually we have some music playing too.
- Or if you usually compete, but just don't want to do it that day, you can still come, get a workout in and hang out.
- We could have extra coaches on deck, and offer a mini swim clinic during the meet.
- We are also capable of filming people under and above water, critiquing their stroke and burning a DVD for them. We can even take that equipment and bring it to their meets with us.
- And of course, the BBQ snack bar is open the whole time. At our bigger meets we have been known to bring a live band.
Thoughts please?
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Former Member
Well I have no idea what a fitness meet would be like. But, I think the way to approach it would be to ask yourself, what a fit swimmer should be able to do. Ask coaches what realistic goals would be for fitness swimmers then design events that would test those goals. Fitness involves strength, flexibility, stamina, etc. Is it accurate to say that a fit swimmer would have to have good technique to have stamina? Then maybe there could be an event where judges give swimmer's scores on how technically correct they can swim 200.
Elaine
Well I have no idea what a fitness meet would be like. But, I think the way to approach it would be to ask yourself, what a fit swimmer should be able to do. Ask coaches what realistic goals would be for fitness swimmers then design events that would test those goals. Fitness involves strength, flexibility, stamina, etc. Is it accurate to say that a fit swimmer would have to have good technique to have stamina? Then maybe there could be an event where judges give swimmer's scores on how technically correct they can swim 200.
Elaine
