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By Cassidy Lavigne, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n

After recently aging out of my fun summer age-group team, coming home from school meant that I had to find a new team to stay in shape with. Not just a new team, but a new coach, new pool, new people and new practices. I am one of the many swimmers who cannot motivate themselves to write a set and do it alone. I need to train in the atmosphere of others pushing themselves alongside me.<\/p>\n

It was time for me to join U.S.\u00a0Masters Swimming<\/a>. After much research on location, practice times, and prices, I found the best option for me was Swymnut Masters<\/a>. Even though I had done my research, I still had no idea what to expect. In fact, I was pretty intimidated. I soon found out that there was a stark difference between my expectations of Masters swimming and the realities of the organization.<\/p>\n

The Team<\/h2>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Cokie Lepinski<\/p><\/div>\n

Expectation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walking onto the pool deck was nerve wracking. I was the first one to arrive in fear that I would be late for my first practice. I expected to see swim parents who had been swimming forever, competed in Iron Man races– the ultimate workout fanatics that would put my out-of-shape self to shame. Those people who swam D1 in college and never\u00a0actually stopped swimming. But I soon realized this wasn’t the case…<\/p>\n

Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was completely wrong. I found there were many types of different swimmers with levels ranging from swim parents to casual lap swimmers to post-grads, and even beginning first-time swimmers. Similar to every team I\u2019ve been on, we all enjoy more rest, we all ask questions like, \u201chow many was that?\u201d and go at different paces, even in Masters!\u00a0Head Coach of Swymnut,\u00a0Cokie Lepinski\u00a0<\/strong>commented, “Masters Swimming continues to battle the perception that you need to compete or be a pretty decent swimmer to join your local Masters team. Nothing could be further from the truth! Every level of swimmer can be found on most teams, from the beginner to the ex-collegiate or Olympian.”<\/p>\n

The Coaches<\/h1>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Claire Cruise<\/p><\/div>\n

Expectation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are there even coaches at Masters practice? Do they swim with us and tell us the set as we go? Do they email the workouts and come to certain practices? Are they super serious about sets and workouts? I had so many questions flood my mind. It\u2019s always interesting meeting new coaches to see what their style is like.<\/p>\n

Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coach\u00a0<\/strong>Lepinski\u00a0and coaches\u00a0Susie Powell, <\/strong>Shari Cruse, Buffy Patterson\u00a0<\/strong>and Marlon Woolf<\/strong>\u00a0have a passion for pool swimming and open water swimming and are incredibly\u00a0hands on. They correct your form, they hold you accountable, and they know the value of rest. My stroke was filmed from all angles and later critiqued on Coach’s Eye<\/a>, an app that helps with stroke analysis. Masters coaches are just like all of the great coaches I’ve worked with– they push me to do my best.<\/p>\n

The Workouts<\/h1>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Cokie Lepinski<\/p><\/div>\n

Expectation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like any new swimmer on a team, I wondered how I would keep up and fit in with the others. Was I going to be the slowest even though I’m a collegiate swimmer?<\/p>\n

Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of the sets we do are on rest intervals, so there wasn\u2019t an interval to \u201cmiss\u201d or keep up with. You push yourself and choose your rest depending on how hard you’re wanting to work. The practices are in a similar in format to club or college sets: the first 10 minutes of practice are for individual warm up, then there is a pre-set, main, and warm-down. Being out of shape since tapering for NAIA Nationals in March and having a few weeks break between off season, the workouts have been a welcome challenge. It\u2019s a personal push. I choose how difficult I want to make each set and which strokes I want to work on.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019ve learned from\u00a0swimming Masters this summer is that it\u2019s no different from any other team. The sets can be catered to the swimmer’s needs\/wants– be it shortening their rest time, or working a weaker\u00a0stroke. The coaches are there to coach, critique, and push their swimmers.<\/p>\n

“Most people worry about fitting in when they join a class, a group or a team,”Coach Lepinski commented. “The beauty of Masters swimming is that everyone fits in– all sizes, shapes, experience levels, work backgrounds and ethnicities seem to merge in the water as one. The water draws us in and is an activity that we are able do over our entire lifetime.”<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t know how to swim, check out USMS.org<\/a>\u00a0to find a team that operates a certified Adult Learn-to-Swim program. You won\u2019t regret it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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