1. Eating As Much As You Want And Never Gaining Weight
Training for Synchronized Swimming burns a lot of calories and leaves athletes hungry all the time. The bad news is that when you stop swimming, you stop burning all those calories but your huge appetite remains.
2. Not Being Out Of Breath After Climbing Two Flights Of Stairs
Synchronized swimmers are never out of breath. Once you stop swimming however, your lungs won't be as exercised and with time, you'll start running out of breath every time you lift a finger.
3. Being Able To Wear Outrageous Makeup
After years of collecting makeup in all colors of the rainbow for synchro, ex-swimmers will come to the realization that it is actually not cool to wear bright multicolored glittery eyeshadow for a casual stroll to the park or at work.
4. The Feeling Of Silky Smooth Hair After Washing Out Gel
Gel is the bane of any synchro swimmers existence. But we all have to admit that we loved that feeling of washing the gel out and running our fingers through the silkiest head of hair that ever walked the earth. We all strutted through school feeling like a supermodel for a few days after a competition.
5. Glitter
Eventually all ex-synchro swimmers have to cut down on their glittery belongings. Most of your friends and family members don't appreciate finding glitter on literally everything.
6. Always Being With Your Teammates Who Were Also Your Best Friends
Being a synchronized swimmer meant countless hours spent at the pool but that was all alright by you because being at the pool meant being with your besties. Being in such close contact with your teammates created a bond that would last forever and give you lifetime friends. The people you met through synchro had the coolest, most diverse and individual personalities of anyone you had ever met. They knew everything about you and whenever anything worth talking about happened at school, your synchro buddies were the first to know about it. When you stop swimming, you'll still have your synchro friends but you'll miss seeing them almost every day.
7. Competitions
Competitions were a great way to show off your glittery suits and makeup, and strut your stuff. It was also a great time to spend bonding with your teammates. The best competitions were travel meets because you got to go out and explore cool new cities with your best friends. Once your competition career has ended, you'll miss the swim meat traditions you had with your team like playing the ABC game in the car on the way down, playing cards in the airports while waiting for your flights, or dressing fancy to go out to dinner to a fast food chain just for fun.
