If you swam competitively growing up, you’ve likely endured many goal-setting meetings with your coaches. Often, these sessions focused on achieving a specific time, such as a cut for a state championship or meeting a threshold to move up to a more advanced training group.

In such cases, and largely for any kind of competitive swimming, getting faster was likely the primary focus.

For some Masters swimmers, time-focused goal-setting may still be an integral part of your preparation. Many among us are striving to win races, get faster to break records, or simply beat a personal best.

But for others, a focus on simply improving fitness and keeping your swimming habit sustainable may actually be more important now.

If you’re among the latter group, you may be wondering how best to approach this slightly different type of goal-setting with its less specific data point guide posts.