Any suggestions from anyone? Here's the deal:
We started 5 years ago with 27 gung ho masters swimmers--of very mixed ability. There are 2 of us left standing...
We work out with the kids who are trying to maintain fitness for highschool swim season or are trying to get into more challenging age group workouts. Again mixed ability.
$173 per trimester
4 workouts a week..ALL at 7:45 pm.
The triathlon group in town has 60 + members.
Triathletes get discouraged because of the stroke work
One of our coachs is great, the other is only fair.
6 coaches in 5 years.
What are we doing wrong? The program is on life support!
PS: Personally, I am never going to stop, ever.
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Have you considered changing the fee structure? If people have to pay for all four workouts even when they can only make one or two per week it may make them feel pressured and resentful. Especially if the coach introduces something like a new drill in one session and expects everyone to automatically know about it in subsequent sessions.
Some of the people in the club I currently belong to can barely swim. They've joined in hopes of improving, which is probably why most people from a non-competitive background join swim clubs. Does your club have something to offer people like that or is it just workouts? People don't improve from just swimming a lot.
I agree that making some of the workouts distance oriented will attract more triathletes, but doing work on other strokes won't necessarily turn them off. There's a triathlon club that works out in one of the pools I swim in, and they do strokes other than free. Many triathletes do want to try other forms of swimming, especially in winter when they have time to experiment and play around a bit.
Have you considered changing the fee structure? If people have to pay for all four workouts even when they can only make one or two per week it may make them feel pressured and resentful. Especially if the coach introduces something like a new drill in one session and expects everyone to automatically know about it in subsequent sessions.
Some of the people in the club I currently belong to can barely swim. They've joined in hopes of improving, which is probably why most people from a non-competitive background join swim clubs. Does your club have something to offer people like that or is it just workouts? People don't improve from just swimming a lot.
I agree that making some of the workouts distance oriented will attract more triathletes, but doing work on other strokes won't necessarily turn them off. There's a triathlon club that works out in one of the pools I swim in, and they do strokes other than free. Many triathletes do want to try other forms of swimming, especially in winter when they have time to experiment and play around a bit.
