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Masters swim
G Scott Layher
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This was my first night of masters swimming. I think it went ok. I was crazy nervous but didn't drown or mess anyone else up too bad. Please give me hints to make it easier to learn the jargon.
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"On the X" means you're swimming and leaving on the next time the clock hits that interval. "On 1:20" would mean you'd start interval 2 at 1:20 after you started, 3 at 2:40, 4th interval at 4:00 etc etc. So if you swim a second faster, you get an extra second of rest. Swimming tends to operate more this way than a fixed rest because that would be madness with 8 kids in a lane each taking :10 themselves. Plus they'd definitely lie
Top-when the pace clock comes back to 00, even if it's digital
Bottom-:30, same idea
Stroke and/or choice-not freestyle. Tell them you're doing "alternating single arm butterfly with a flutter kick drill" instead
Flutter kick: normal freestyle kick
Dolphin kick: butterfly kick
Otherwise....certain drills may have more colloquial names. If the coach writes a drill set and you have no clue what the drill is, just ask. I still do.
How do you know when to use pull bouy. I grabbed one but didn't use it. I saw some people did and some did not.
As for pull buoy, I'm assuming there's a coach on deck going through the workout? Or at least somebody writing the workout in advance? Normally it would say "pull" on the paper/board if you're absolutely supposed to pull, in which case use the buoy. A thing I've heard of but never directly observed is people grabbing a buoy to survive a set or make it easier. Don't do this. It not only reinforces bad habits, it's just....don't. More importantly, though, is not being the guy who uses fins unless everybody else is using them. That just messes the whole thing up.
The big thing is: obey the set, within reason. On stroke sets, kicks, etc...you might need to occasionally skip a 50 or so to keep from royally screwing up the lane. You'll live. Masters swimming doesn't quite have the discipline that age group swimming does, because you're all adults and can exercise critical thinking to modify workouts as needed/practicable. But do it as little as possible.
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And this is probably obvious, but if you're catching the person in front of you, once you've touched their feet once you hang back and wait till the end of the current interval without touching em again. They *should* then ask if you want to go ahead on the next interval.
I hate other strokes. I only started swimming as a junior in high school, so I just took my cross country fitness and swam the 500...so I never got very good at the other strokes. When I shifted to triathlon, I eschewed them entirely and can't swim more than a 25 of any of them "fast." So that 400 IM I signed up for in a masters meet next weekend will be a blast
I am still nervous that I will mess up everyone in my lane but have not been yelled at...yet.
I really enjoy it. I think that for anyone who is a good swimmer and those who are not a lot can be gained. The coach always has something that will immediately help my swim.
I chose a lane that has at least one person slightly faster then me and have had a great workout each time.
I chose a lane with someone faster than me so I don't have to count