I have a question about why so many people on my swim team are so much faster than me. I have been on a year round swim team for over a year, and have been swimming competitively for about 4 years.
I am still always the slowest on my team, and I get lapped so many times during practice. It is so frustrating! I go to practice almost every day, and work just as hard as them.
Are some people just born fast vs. slow in swimming and there is nothing you can do to change your natural speed? Is speed something you can achieve with hard work?
Why is everyone so much faster than me? What can I do to become fast like them?
I realized after 10 years of swimming club team growing up that swimming is first and foremost an individual sport. The human body comes in many differnt forms, shapes, and sizes - and some are not cut out to go a sub-50 second 100 m free! I think this lesson sunk in the most when two brothers joined our swim team my 8th grade year. Neither could do much more than swim a few laps at a time, couldn't even do all four strokes as I remember.
By the time we where seniors I couldn't touch either in nearly any event, and they both went on to swim college at UCSB. As for myself, I am happy to be back in the water staying in shape after a 6 year "break"!
I realized after 10 years of swimming club team growing up that swimming is first and foremost an individual sport. The human body comes in many differnt forms, shapes, and sizes - and some are not cut out to go a sub-50 second 100 m free! I think this lesson sunk in the most when two brothers joined our swim team my 8th grade year. Neither could do much more than swim a few laps at a time, couldn't even do all four strokes as I remember.
By the time we where seniors I couldn't touch either in nearly any event, and they both went on to swim college at UCSB. As for myself, I am happy to be back in the water staying in shape after a 6 year "break"!
