With some recent talk about coaches, accomodating to swimmers, and swimmers obeying coaches, I thought I'd post a poll.
So who is receiving coached workouts? Do you like him/her? Do you like his/her workouts? Do they pay you attention, criticize and advise, or do they like to sit and read, or flirt with other swimmers/lifeguards?
I love having a coach on deck. It usually motivate me and to be quite honest I hate writing my own workouts!!!
The problem with coaches in my area right now are that most of them are not professional and they typically only help the beginning swimmer. You go to a workout and they give the faster lanes the workout and then they never visit you again until you need a set explained. I don't know if they are afraid to help more advanced swimmers or they really don't know how to help advanced swimmers? I don't care how good you are in the pool, everyone wants some kind of advice on their stroke technique.
In the past 15 years of swimming with masters I only had one young coach (former university swimmer) actually tell me she didn't like my stroke (freestyle) and should change my recover form. I disagreed with her, but it really made me think about what I was doing and now I'm swim better.
Most of the time I need to ask a coach to watch my stroke, but I find that to be flawed. When I ask a coach to watch me I know I'm trying to swim my best. I would much rather have a coach catch me doing something when I'm not thinking about it and let me know what they think I should do.
I love having a coach on deck. It usually motivate me and to be quite honest I hate writing my own workouts!!!
The problem with coaches in my area right now are that most of them are not professional and they typically only help the beginning swimmer. You go to a workout and they give the faster lanes the workout and then they never visit you again until you need a set explained. I don't know if they are afraid to help more advanced swimmers or they really don't know how to help advanced swimmers? I don't care how good you are in the pool, everyone wants some kind of advice on their stroke technique.
In the past 15 years of swimming with masters I only had one young coach (former university swimmer) actually tell me she didn't like my stroke (freestyle) and should change my recover form. I disagreed with her, but it really made me think about what I was doing and now I'm swim better.
Most of the time I need to ask a coach to watch my stroke, but I find that to be flawed. When I ask a coach to watch me I know I'm trying to swim my best. I would much rather have a coach catch me doing something when I'm not thinking about it and let me know what they think I should do.
