What do you need to have in your swim bag?
What do you need to have in your swim bag?
Need? Swimsuit and a towel.
I also have a foam pull buoy, hand paddles and a kickboard, goggles, deck sandals. That’s about it.
Things I’d like to have? Underwater MP3, portable timing clock so I don’t have to squint at the regular clock on the wall.
John
Swimsuit, goggles, maybe a swim cap (if you have long hair).
Everything else is optional…
Need:
goggles, swim suit, towel.
Want : ask a triathlete and you will get a laundry list of toys. I’d recommend bouy, snorkel, band (not a rock band unless you have groupies follwoing you to the pool), paddles and fins. Keep total use to under 15% of the time.
An assortment of goggles
2 suits
deck sandals
various swim caps
hand paddles
fins
pull buoy
.
As a coach, I always had a problem with my kids forgetting to bring a freaking suit to practice. It would drive me absolutely crazy! It was never a little kid either, it was always the seniors, and most often the girls. The little kids would be so excited they would come to practice in their suits. Then they’d start coming straight from school, and we’d have problems. God that would kill me, especially when they’d do it multiple times right before a big meet from nervousness.
Okay so got that? Bring a suit. And have an extra one in yer bag. Other than that, I’d have goggles (extras), fins, paddles, kick board, and pull bouy. I think anything other than that stuff is really unnecessary, like all the snorkels and Mp3 players and etc. I keep an extra gel and some S! caps since I tend to cramp up after a few thousand.
No one said earplugs? It makes my swim so much more enjoyable. No water in the ear, less noise = more zen, and I don’t have to talk to the people leaning on the walls.
I must be really excited to go to practice, because I always wear my suit under my clothes. Everyone at swimming says they are just waiting for the day that I forget to put it on and embarass the hell out of my self on the pool deck.
I carry a couple pairs of goggles, a couple of caps, a towel, this baton thing I use for swimming techique, swim workouts, some hair ties and other stuff like shampoo, conditioner, brush, change of clothes, etc that aren’t used in the pool. So my bag looks really full. I carry my fins in with my because my bag isn’t big enough for them.
No pull buoy for me. I use the pull buoys that the pool has if we have to use them for a workout and they have nice kickboards that I use as well.
swimsuit (or three), couple of swim caps, assorted goggles, baby shampoo for the goggles, regular shampoo/conditioner/soap for post swim, towel, and underwater camera (for the ocean swims…though I forgot it yesterday and missed an opportunity to take a picture of a baby turtle eating an eel). I just got some paddles, so they’ll be in there too. I don’t use pull buoys or kick boards (pull and kick w/o them).
Dont’ forget a water bottle.
Couple pairs of goggles, many caps, small thing of baby powder to dust the caps with (extends the life of the cap), pool membership card, shampoo & conditioner, comb, extra hair ties, hand paddles, extra suit, small stash of tampons in ziplock bag.
Things tend to settle to the bottom, and I once found a three year old Gatorade energy bar (anyone else remember those?) with its use-by date long, long passed underneath my spare swimsuit.
Need:
goggles, swim suit, towel.
Want : ask a triathlete and you will get a laundry list of toys. I’d recommend bouy, snorkel, band (not a rock band unless you have groupies follwoing you to the pool), paddles and fins. Keep total use to under 15% of the time.
I dunno, real swimmers have a laundry list of toys too 
walk onto the deck during a U Maine practice, it’s littered with flip flops, water bottles, mesh bags with kickboards buoys bands paddles fins. At Colby the swim team is the only group that uses the pool so they just leave stuff right on the deck, no bags, fins and kickboards all over the place. Water bottles too. It’s so cozy walking onto that deck, looks like they live there (wait a minute, they do).
For Mr. Tibbs: in my bag - goggles, three different caps (the Colby one, the “Freakin Fast” one, the one from nationals). A ROCK STAR one piece suit, and an orange two-piece. Flip flops, towel, water bottle. In the winter, a bunch of gels lest I need one in the middle of an 8k workout. Shampoo, conditioner, lotion, hair elastics, a brush.
don’t put you cigarettes in there, they will get wet.
Been two months with out the little white monsters.
What do you need to have in your swim bag?
rubber ducky?..
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rubber ducky?..
At U Maine… the rubber ducks are not in swim bags. They are on the deck!!!
I am quite serious - the assistant coach has a small rubber duck, and two rubber frogs on the windowsill of her office. They’re the type that you can fill with water and squirt at someone, too.
Speedo
Towel
Swedes
Flip Flops
Shampoo
Toiletry kit if swimming before work (so I don’t look like I just came from the pool)
***workout ***(if prescribed)
As for the rest of the stuff, it depends. If I’m swimming with one Masters group I need to bring the toys (paddles/fins - they have kickboards at the pool and I can usually borrow a pull buoy if they insist I use one). If I’m swimming solo or with the other Masters group I don’t use them.
At U Maine… the rubber ducks are not in swim bags. They are on the deck!!!
at least they keep it light. i can see how that would help the stress of collegiate athletics and studying… 
cheers!
In Reply ToAt U Maine… the rubber ducks are not in swim bags. They are on the deck!!!
at least they keep it light. i can see how that would help the stress of collegiate athletics and studying…
all the rubber ducks in the world won’t help when you’re trying to make 18 x 200 on 2:20 (not my set - their best female distance swimmer’s, one October morning), or 9 x 200 fly (don’t remember the interval, but my roommate whined about that one for a week)
all the rubber ducks in the world won’t help when you’re trying to make 18 x 200 on 2:20 (not my set - their best female distance swimmer’s, one October morning), or 9 x 200 fly (don’t remember the interval, but my roommate whined about that one for a week)
I wish I was fast enough to bitch about that set…