I want to work on improving my swimming to hopefully do a triathlon. I am really a lousy swimmer. I'm always the slowest person in the pool. My endurance is fine from running etc., but my strokes/form are terrible.
Everyone says masters swimming programs are the best workouts, but I don't want to go near one because I would lag behind even the oldest, most out of shape members.
What should I do?
I'm not sure why masters swimming has this concept of being elite swimmers, maybe the use of, "master," in the name. I get asked this quite a bit, and I thought the same thing too.
But I thought much of the same, that I wasn't good enough, and many other things. For my first masters workout, I did swim in the slowest lane, but within a month I was a few lanes over. Right now, I'm in one of the faster lanes with the group I swim with, and I couldn't imagine swimming this much on my own.
I'm not sure why masters swimming has this concept of being elite swimmers, maybe the use of, "master," in the name. I get asked this quite a bit, and I thought the same thing too.
But I thought much of the same, that I wasn't good enough, and many other things. For my first masters workout, I did swim in the slowest lane, but within a month I was a few lanes over. Right now, I'm in one of the faster lanes with the group I swim with, and I couldn't imagine swimming this much on my own.
