Any advice for the problem of taking a really long time to feel smooth, efficient and easy in the water? I swim 2 miles freestyle 3x/week. It always takes about an hour, but I've noticed that it's fully about 1/2 way or more into it before I notice it's easy gliding and I'm not thinking about it anymore. The speed or the technique isn't different it just seems like a long time before things click.
Thanks for your suggestions!
Maryann
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Originally posted by mgermaine
I just swim for fitness & never been on a team or competed (really only learned proper strokes in a phys ed class long ago in college.) I'm 39 and swim 3 or 4x/week and do not have much of a competitive streak...just learned to flip turn last summer from the kids' swim coach!
I was contemplating working hard alone this summer to maybe join our local masters group for motivation and to meet other swimmers this fall. I'm not sure whether masters is for a beginner like me, however; gotta confess most of these posts look a bit like a foreign language. Also I never learned butterfly.
Maryanne -- Don't fret about what you'll find on a masters team. Most have lanes assigned to various capabilities, so you'd just be directed to the appropriate group (or you'll find it on your own.)
You won't be judged (except perhaps by yourself.)
I don't fly. Never learned it. Maybe some day I will. When I'm with a masters team and the workout calls for fly, I just do freestyle. Nobody complains. The whole point of masters is for you to get out of it what you set your goals to be. If doing something you hate (or fear, which is a little bit of it for me) will cause you to quit, what's the point of that? Any good masters coach recognizes that.
Originally posted by mgermaine
I just swim for fitness & never been on a team or competed (really only learned proper strokes in a phys ed class long ago in college.) I'm 39 and swim 3 or 4x/week and do not have much of a competitive streak...just learned to flip turn last summer from the kids' swim coach!
I was contemplating working hard alone this summer to maybe join our local masters group for motivation and to meet other swimmers this fall. I'm not sure whether masters is for a beginner like me, however; gotta confess most of these posts look a bit like a foreign language. Also I never learned butterfly.
Maryanne -- Don't fret about what you'll find on a masters team. Most have lanes assigned to various capabilities, so you'd just be directed to the appropriate group (or you'll find it on your own.)
You won't be judged (except perhaps by yourself.)
I don't fly. Never learned it. Maybe some day I will. When I'm with a masters team and the workout calls for fly, I just do freestyle. Nobody complains. The whole point of masters is for you to get out of it what you set your goals to be. If doing something you hate (or fear, which is a little bit of it for me) will cause you to quit, what's the point of that? Any good masters coach recognizes that.
