Hey for you guys that replied to my thread last week, i really appreciate it, you guys really helped out. I ended up going to the club swim to find out that theyre actually pretty lax. theres no forms to fill out, you just pretty much show up when you want to. The problem is they dont have coaches either, they have a hand full of really good swimmers though. My problem now is, today i went to swim with my schools triathalon club because fridays they get a coach to supervise, and pretty much i had a big wake up call on how badly i needed to work on my stroke. I'm going to research a bit online, it's just, im a bit discouraged cause it really sucked my first week in the club swimming sport because pretty much everyone there swam high school varsity or college. Even in the very last lane i found myself getting in peoples way a lot and having to stop each time i got to the other end of the pool to let everyone pass me, and it was pretty embarrassing. I really want to get better though i just dont know what direction to take. I dont want to keep going to club swimming and swim the 4000 or whatever meters or yards that swim with the wrong technique and get like muscle memory, i want to do this right mainly because i really want to get in shape. I know this is getting kind of long so ill just end it here but if any of you who are still reading this can help me out i would REALLY appreciate some guidance. thanks again guys.
oh and i almost forgot, the first day in the club swim the main dude there told me that you know he'd help me out to just message him on facebook and i did, and the next day he pretty much told me that he read the message and just didnt feel like replying, and since tuesday i havent heard back from him. So it's attitudes like that, thats making it hard for me to feel comfortable asking for help.
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In practice you'll be swimming freestyle the majority of the time. Learning correctly early is the best thing for you.
There are two parts of learning swimming: practice, and feedback. Ideally you should be able to swim supervised as frequently as possible, and the person watching you should be able to give you feedback at the end of a set, or at the end of the workout.
I suggest watching some videos on youtube, from the "how to swim" type of video, up to the underwater views of Olympic events and everything in between.
When you first start swimming, you are going to be slow. I've been swimming all my life, and it wasn't until high school that I realized I was swimming completely wrong. My first day of swim practice was my sophomore year of high school, and we did a 500 yard for time. I completed it in 9:58.
At the end of the season on our last meet I did the 500 again, 6:46. During practice I couldn't keep up at first, but after 2 or 3 months of swimming 5 days a week (3 days were also 2-a-days) I could keep up with the middle-upper swimmers in practice. Just keep at it, it takes time but it will come.
As for the college triathlon practice, I was swimming my own workout a few days ago when my college was doing their own triathlon swimming practice. I was pretty amused with myself that I was swimming faster than all of their swimmers. Chances are if you dedicate yourself to swimming as often as you can with a coach, you'll be smoking your triathlon swimmers in no time. For big gains you need to be swimming 5-6 days a week. 3 days a week will help you improve, but not as quickly.
In practice you'll be swimming freestyle the majority of the time. Learning correctly early is the best thing for you.
There are two parts of learning swimming: practice, and feedback. Ideally you should be able to swim supervised as frequently as possible, and the person watching you should be able to give you feedback at the end of a set, or at the end of the workout.
I suggest watching some videos on youtube, from the "how to swim" type of video, up to the underwater views of Olympic events and everything in between.
When you first start swimming, you are going to be slow. I've been swimming all my life, and it wasn't until high school that I realized I was swimming completely wrong. My first day of swim practice was my sophomore year of high school, and we did a 500 yard for time. I completed it in 9:58.
At the end of the season on our last meet I did the 500 again, 6:46. During practice I couldn't keep up at first, but after 2 or 3 months of swimming 5 days a week (3 days were also 2-a-days) I could keep up with the middle-upper swimmers in practice. Just keep at it, it takes time but it will come.
As for the college triathlon practice, I was swimming my own workout a few days ago when my college was doing their own triathlon swimming practice. I was pretty amused with myself that I was swimming faster than all of their swimmers. Chances are if you dedicate yourself to swimming as often as you can with a coach, you'll be smoking your triathlon swimmers in no time. For big gains you need to be swimming 5-6 days a week. 3 days a week will help you improve, but not as quickly.
