Informative Essay On Swimming

Have you ever wondered how athletes make it to the Olympics? Well it's not from them training themselves. Every great athlete has an even better coach standing behind them. Coaching is the most important part of any sport, especially in swimming. Swimming is an extremely demanding sport both physically and mentally. Swimmers train year round for just a few hundred yards of racing. The one who is always there making up the sets, workouts, and motivational speeches is the coach. Coaching has come a long way from where it was, for example, in the 1930's when only rich, white men could swim or even have access to a pool, let alone have a coach. Swimmers had to find their own way to train, in lakes, ditches filled with water, the ocean, and anywhere else they could find suitable. Swimming wouldn’t be where it is today without the coach effort put forth through many generations of great swimmers. Michael Phelps wouldn’t be anywhere close to where he is today if it wasn’t for his coach. Natural talent can only go so far, especially when the sport is constantly changing and evolving with each new year of competitors. Swimming coaches are responsible of not only a team, but of each individual swimmer. A …show more content…
It is extremely important that the coach be a good role model as well. The coach will be the person the swimmers look up too and looking at to make the right decisions when the wrong ones are so tempting. Many swimmers model their coach and look at them as parental figures and people who have heavy influence on their life. It is important for the coach to set up boundaries for the swimmers as well. Without these boundaries swimmers would not feel the need to want to succeed, and they would have no drive to push them to be their best. They have to have set boundaries that must be respected for their work ethics, behaviors, and actions. Every team must have these to be a successful and functional