I spent a good portion of my life training under a coach (a very wonderful coach). Now I'm kinda off on my own because at the moment I've got other priorities. I don't get a lot of training in, but I'm hoping to get in more. But right now I feel good not having some one tell me what to do, or stand over me shouting to go faster. Of course I think it would improve my speed and form and such, but right now is just not the time.
If I did decide to get a coach, I think I'd actually go back to my old coach, because I think he's pretty amazing and I like his attitude. For now I've been told I'm allowed to leech off his workouts (join the team's workouts but in another lane) since I just don't have the time to devote to being on the team. It's a USA team, not masters, so he's got an attendence requirement.
Anybody else training on their own? And if you do, do you still go to competitions? I'd definately be comfortable going to competitions without a coach, and unnattached.
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I train on my own.
I did have 2 good coaches but they both had to move on to bigger and better things. The only coach that's left basically just writes the workout down and then chats with the aqua instructors for the rest of the time. So one day I realized that I could just get my own workouts (from old ones and ones I found in the workout section here) and I'm on my own. I may want a coach again someday, but for now I'm concentrating on interval training and the clock is my coach.
JIM
I train on my own.
I did have 2 good coaches but they both had to move on to bigger and better things. The only coach that's left basically just writes the workout down and then chats with the aqua instructors for the rest of the time. So one day I realized that I could just get my own workouts (from old ones and ones I found in the workout section here) and I'm on my own. I may want a coach again someday, but for now I'm concentrating on interval training and the clock is my coach.
JIM
