Poll question

I would always pick morning over pm-assuming pm is after 6pm. I hate swimming after I have eaten, feel clearer and more focused in the morning and there is way too much competition for lanes in the evening. I would rather spend 60 quality minutes swimming than 90 trying to find a lane and fighting fatigue.

I can't stand to get up that early.Also,I do better with my own workouts(I'm not going to do what the coach says anyway.)If you are going the uncoached route you will need to get someone who knows what they are doing to look at your stroke periodically.

I really enjoyed my 6AM practices this summer that were every weekday morning. I could get my 4500 to 5000 meters done and then get to work. At the end of the day, I could go home and relax or have time to do dryland(which I rarely did) or see a movie. Now, my schedule is two mornings practices a week and the rest are all evening practices. With the morning practices, all I had to do was get up an hour earlier than I normally do. When I do night practices, I lose 2-3 hours in my day. At either practice, there is coach attention and assigned sets.

If you need and want the coaching part of training (ask Ande!), seems to me the second option would be preferable. Can you mix them up? Say, do 2 days of coached training and 3 the assigned workouts or practicing what was done in the coached sessions? Or maybe try the coached training for 3 months, then switch over? VB

If you need and want the coaching part of training (ask Ande!), seems to me the second option would be preferable. Can you mix them up? Say, do 2 days of coached training and 3 the assigned workouts or practicing what was done in the coached sessions? Or maybe try the coached training for 3 months, then switch over? VB No i can't these are two different teams, I already tried morning sessions - problem is i have to go right to work after that-but as many mentioned here better 60mins quality workout rather than hanging there by myself. Moring session always has like 8 people everyday - eveing session rarely one-i think that says a lot.

Is there an option for, "Pick a thread title that actually gives some insight into what the poll is about?" :bolt:

AM If and only if I can get to it while traveling. I would rather get up, stretch, talk to the wife, read a part of the paper, then fight the Houston Traffic, get to work and be able to concentrate through the morning. Evening practices allow me to get the tension out from the day and are late enough to get me home from the commute and change, but early enough so that dinner is not at 9:00.

I'm a morning person so I'd go for the morning practice. I go now 4:30-6am and have to head right home so my husband can leave for work (and someone is home with our 3 year old).

(continuing the trend toward thread hijack) Swimming at end of workday is totally wonderful. Swimming in lake at 5:45 a.m. (it's still night!) is obscenely wonderful. Either makes me tired and want to sleep. :2cents:

6am is the only reasonable option around me (nearest pools don't open until 6am) but I have to be in to work before 7am so even that is no longer an option.