On February 20, I'm hoping to go to my first swim meet......ever! :eek: I swam on the team when I was younger, but I never competed. I'm incredibly nervous already and I have no idea what to expect because I have never been to a meet before. I swam with my friend who is a coach, and I have what seems like a lot of work to do on my strokes. How realistic is it that I be ready by February? Obviously I won't be at the top of the field, but I'm hoping to at least not make a fool out of myself. But what I really want to know is what to expect. How do I train, and how do I taper? When do I start tapering? Do I even need to taper? Any good pre-meet workout ideas? Any thing that anyone can suggest would be helpful!!! Thanx a bunch!!
~Kyra
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Originally posted by Seagurl51
The meet is a week from today!! I am a ball on nerves at this point! I'm still really excited but now I'm starting to worry about pointless little things. How do you relax before a meet? Anything that anyone can offer would be uber helpful!! Thanks soo much!!
~Kyra
I've never been able to relax before a meet. In fact, by the time the meet starts, I've already had a workout just from the tension. I also don't sleep all that well the night before a morning meet. Nor does the tension go away as soon as I hit the water. At my last meet, I was in 3 heats, and the tension really didn't start to subside until partway through my 2nd heat. It didn't totally go away until after my 3rd heat.
The only thing I've found that helps is being in lots of meets. The more meets you have been in, and (more importantly) the more meets you have been in recently, the less tension you are likely to feel. The fastest 50y freestyle time I've ever done in competition was done in a situation where I had two meets only a few weeks apart and did 50y freestyle in both of them. And it was in the second meet that I did my best time. The reason was that I was more relaxed.
Originally posted by Seagurl51
The meet is a week from today!! I am a ball on nerves at this point! I'm still really excited but now I'm starting to worry about pointless little things. How do you relax before a meet? Anything that anyone can offer would be uber helpful!! Thanks soo much!!
~Kyra
I've never been able to relax before a meet. In fact, by the time the meet starts, I've already had a workout just from the tension. I also don't sleep all that well the night before a morning meet. Nor does the tension go away as soon as I hit the water. At my last meet, I was in 3 heats, and the tension really didn't start to subside until partway through my 2nd heat. It didn't totally go away until after my 3rd heat.
The only thing I've found that helps is being in lots of meets. The more meets you have been in, and (more importantly) the more meets you have been in recently, the less tension you are likely to feel. The fastest 50y freestyle time I've ever done in competition was done in a situation where I had two meets only a few weeks apart and did 50y freestyle in both of them. And it was in the second meet that I did my best time. The reason was that I was more relaxed.
