Oh No! 5 Things Swimmers Dread at Practice
Every swimmer has their irks, the things that bother them most at practice. We all dread certain things whether it is a challenging set in the pool, or a basic everyday task as simple as putting lane lines in the water. Read on to see the five things that swimmers dread practice!
Cool Down or Starting Another Set?
We’ve all been there. There’s 10 minutes left in practice and your coach unfortunately makes you start the last set that’s written on the board when they could easily just tell the team to start cooling down. After a long and grueling practice, what more needs to be done? Coaches are always trying to use every last second of time to make sure that we are getting our yards in. It may be annoying in the moment, but just remember they are only trying to make us better.
Diving into a Cold Pool
Something that never gets easier is diving into an ice-cold pool, especially in the morning. When we hear our alarms go off at the crack of dawn, the last thing we want to do is get out of our warm and cozy bed to go jump into a cold pool. The longer we stare at the water, the more we dread it. Once you finally dive in, you’ll warm up before you know it.
Putting Lane Lines in the Water
Isn’t that the lifeguard’s job? The last thing you want to see when you walk on deck is the pool free of lane lines. Instead of using our time to warm up and prepare for practice, we need to get the lane lines in the pool and tightened all before the top of the hour. It’s even worse when you have to get in the water to move them across the pool.
Waiting Too Long Between Sets
It’s always nice taking time between rounds to catch your breath and recover before starting the next set, but sometimes too much time causes more damage than good. As mentioned before, swimmers dread diving into a cold pool. Sitting at the wall for too long is just as bad. Not only will we get cold, but we will dread beginning the next set because we won’t want to move.
Breath control
One thing that most swimmers will agree on is the hatred toward anything related to breath control. Whether we have to do a breathing pattern, kick count or underwater dolphin kick, holding our breath is never fun. Even though it is dreadful, it does make us faster and better at our walls.
I hope you enjoyed reading about the five most dreadful tasks that swimmers face at practice! What practice tendencies bother you?