Little Swimmer Things

Anonymous asked: i have done swim at school since freshman year and i usually do water polo for "conditioning" but this yr i didnt do it cuz i didnt make grades, anyways its hell week and i slowed down A LOT. i got moved to the slowest lane and im the slowest person in that lane. im so scared to get cut, do you have any advice to get my speed up.... a lot....

not to hate on this anon in particular, but i get these kinds of messages a lot and i have two things i’d like to say.

1. there is no secret to becoming a fast swimmer overnight. if you want to be fast, you have to train hard both in and out of the pool. you have to push yourself at practice. that’s it. there’s no magic trick to dropping time.

2. please send these kinds of messages off anon, that way i can private message you back and not take over my followers’ dashboards. i’m not going to like judge you for being a slow swimmer or anything. we were all slow swimmers at one point.