Feed the positive. Starve the negative. Stay positive this summer and remember it’s about racing and scoring points. Let’s not get wrapped up in times until around divisional. If your lucky you may see time drops each week, but it’s hard to do. So go into each meet with this thought, I own this race. Be the big dog and get your hand to the wall first.
START FAST FINISH FASTER
Sunday, June 5, 2022
POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE
Feed the positive. Starve the negative. Stay positive this summer and remember it’s about racing and scoring points. Let’s not get wrapped up in times until around divisional. If your lucky you may see time drops each week, but it’s hard to do. So go into each meet with this thought, I own this race. Be the big dog and get your hand to the wall first.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
RECONNECTING PART 2
You made a choice to be a swimmer, You made a choice to make your workouts. You've made sacrifices. Now maybe it is time for you to sit down and consider how powerful a process-focused mindset can be for you in the water instead of leaving all your goals and dreams to chance.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
RECONNECTING PART 1
We have talked here in the past about the process, but what is the process?
Part of the process involves the outcome, you know what I'm talking about here the time. The outcome also involves what you want to accomplish during practice and it has a lot more to do besides going up and down that black line. It involves things such as stroke counts, breathing pattern, the catch, the kick, the turn, the underwater kicks.
This and so much more is part of the process to help you get to your dreams; your training regimen, your daily practice habits. The process is how you execute from day-to-day, practice-to-practice, lap-to-lap.
Go back, read the highlighted part again. The take away here is that you can't do the things correctly during practice only when it is convenient for you, or only when you feel like it. An example of this took place yesterday during both the morning and evening practices. We were doing some backstroke drill/swim work and this is what I observed from a few swimmers, pushing off on their stomachs and rolling over before finishing. Why would you practice things the wrong way or in ways that cause DQ's? If this next statement offends you, GOOD it should. The only reason a swimmer does these things are; one, they are lazy, two they have no discipline, or three they just don't care. Saying you care are only words. ACTIONS speak louder than words. Mastering the techniques involved with this sport will get you nearer to your goals.
Mastering the process is more than a catch phase. It's an outlook. An attitude. A mindset that ensures you train smarter, better, and ultimately and more importantly, faster.
NEXT UP TRUSTING THE PROCESS
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
ELITE GROUP
Calling all Mako swimmers. Just want to let you know what a fantastic job you all did during warmups this afternoon and although it was crowded you all worked together and got it done like Champs. As we talked about with the group sometimes it is very hard to get everyone in the same lane especially at a meet like this one.
An open warmup is just that, no assigned lanes so its important to move quickly and find a lane. If you can't it's not the end of the world. Take two or three other swimmers and scope out the pool, find some space, any space and jump in.
This is why we have a specific first warmup that you should all know by now, so here we go one more time.
200 swim
4x50 free descend to RED (3x50 for little kids)
200 kick (100 kick little kids)
3x50 kick descend to RED
OLDER KIDS
8X50 DRILL/SWIM (4x50 for little kids)
8X25 (25 fast free/25 smooth choice) (4x25 for little3 kids)
Let's have a Great Day Tomorrow
PEOPLE PLEASER
Are you a people pleaser? Have you ever given any thought to that notion? It's human nature to be a people pleaser and swimmers are human maybe a little freaky at times, but human none the less, so yes you are a people pleaser.
Sunday, April 10, 2022
OVERTHINKING
As swimmers we've all had those moments behind the blocks when you have all these voices in your head telling you what you are and are not capable of. Who do you listen to?
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
PREPARING for MEET
Hope You all are enjoying your spring break. It was good to see so many of you Florida bound swimmers at practice yesterday.
STROKE SPOTLIGHT
We thought we would take a break and touch on a DQ that in my opinion is very judgmental and really does not offer a advantage to you, the swimmer. The backstroke finish.
Has it ever happen to you?
MEET PREPARATION
Sometimes preparing for the meet is as important as the meet itself, but coach isn't that what we do at practice everyday? Yes and No. We try to take care of the physical, in the water stuff, working on techniques and going through actual race strategy but what about the mental side. A few things that mighty help you when preparing for a meet;
- know the events your swimming-- Simple enough you say but I am always amazed how many swimmers show up to a meet without a clue as to what they are swimming or the order of events. How can you be mentally prepared to succeed without this basic information. TAKE OWNERSHIP
- familiarize yourself with the meet and the setup so that there won't be any surprises. Meet sheets, timelines, boy/girl side, warmup/warmdown pools. There is a ton off information that coaches put out for you to make it as simple as we can. Quick fact you are one but many times coaches have 20,30 or more of you, so again TAKE OWNERSHIP. if you have a question ask us.
- Set some goals for the meet-- it's simple to say something along the lines of "I want to go a best time or I want to break the 57.00 barrier in 100 free. That is all good but it is easy to say. A better goal is to say how you are going to accomplish those 2 things. It gives you specifics to work with and to follow through on.
- Visualize your race-- close your eyes and walk through each 25 and 50 of your race. From the start to the breakout, into your turns and finally the finish. Play a game and time yourself and see how close to your time you can get to.
- Remind yourself that you can do it-- too many times I believe athletes talk themselves down by thinking and repeating to themselves all the things that they can't do or that will go wrong. You all do know that if you keep saying and repeating those things it will eventually become reality. So, while we are down in Florida and as you step up onto the block, TAKE OWNERSHIP and say these four powerful words to yourself, " WHY NOT ME TODAY".
Anyway Happy Swimming and here is a short video that might put all of this in perspective. Enjoy!
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