Everybody goes in the pool with different objectives.
Being a career coach I can't help but keep observing other swimmers' strokes, the two most popular strokes in the pool are breaststroke and freestyle. But between these two strokes, you can spot multiple variations of how people swim the stroke, not that I engage in spotting the 8 swim types arnie, bambino, smoothie.... etc etc.
The real pros are the distance swimmers, who lap up the whole hour or two with consistence in breathing, in rhythm, effortlessly and relax. Despite the fact they are not very efficient in their strokes, but with their endurance and relax nature, they could have been better swimmers if they bother to find out if anything was wrong with their strokes. I chatted these folks, in reality, they just want to enjoy the swim, the way they know how, the way they are most comfortable with. Speed, precision doesnt matter to them, the fact they get to enjoy immersion in a nice clean pool and swim uninterrupted is what they are looking for. Its a daily habit they had to do, to know they can do it, to keep fit. I believe they have swim to the point it becomes meditative state to them, the calmness, the rhythm in breathing has given them the motivation to keep lapping it up daily.
In fact, any physical activity done with a constant rhythm and skill is a form of meditation for the human body, the lone jogger, the basketball player shooting hoops, the boxer practising his punches or skipping his rope. The physical state of the human body yearns to be able to flush blood and activate muscles in an aerobic and rhythmic manner, it seems to be a synchronisaton of the whole. With that understanding, I node in agreement to their views. Swimming is meditation indeed.
The real pros are the distance swimmers, who lap up the whole hour or two with consistence in breathing, in rhythm, effortlessly and relax. Despite the fact they are not very efficient in their strokes, but with their endurance and relax nature, they could have been better swimmers if they bother to find out if anything was wrong with their strokes. I chatted these folks, in reality, they just want to enjoy the swim, the way they know how, the way they are most comfortable with. Speed, precision doesnt matter to them, the fact they get to enjoy immersion in a nice clean pool and swim uninterrupted is what they are looking for. Its a daily habit they had to do, to know they can do it, to keep fit. I believe they have swim to the point it becomes meditative state to them, the calmness, the rhythm in breathing has given them the motivation to keep lapping it up daily.
In fact, any physical activity done with a constant rhythm and skill is a form of meditation for the human body, the lone jogger, the basketball player shooting hoops, the boxer practising his punches or skipping his rope. The physical state of the human body yearns to be able to flush blood and activate muscles in an aerobic and rhythmic manner, it seems to be a synchronisaton of the whole. With that understanding, I node in agreement to their views. Swimming is meditation indeed.