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MEETS THIS WEEKEND
OCTOBER OPEN HAS BEEN MOVED TO LEE DISTRICT POOL
Friday night all the swimmers must have their own timers.
Friday night all 400 IM and 200 Fly must positive check in by 6:00. If you are planning to arrive late and would like us to check you in PLEASE send Coach Wendy or myself a text by 12:00 noon and we will take care of it.  Also if you are going to scratch on Friday let us know so we are not looking for you.

What happens to your mindset as you enter the 🏊🏻‍♂️water for practice and you come head to head with that cold chlorinated water, and that dreaded black tile line on the bottom of the pool that will guide you for the next 60-90 minutes of your life.  Do you stress🙀 on whether this training session will get you to your goals?  Are you stressed 😩with homework, what others think, or the weekend?  There are no guarantees that what you do today will take you to the place you want to be tomorrow, all we can do is to put you in the best position to get to that place.  

What you have to accept is that merely wanting something really bad doesn’t make it happen.  It takes a certain mindset 💡also to get there. All thethings mentioned above will always lead back to the same person that we have talked about before and that’s the little man 🧜🏼‍♂️living between your ears dictating your mind set.  Good or bad he/she will affect your performance at practice and meets.  Even though most of us know what we have to do in order to get to our final goal, we hesitate to pull that trigger or expend that energy and effort to improve what’s happening behind those goggles.  Ok how do we fix your mindset, it starts with the person in the mirror!  Example we had to repeat those 200 backstrokes yesterday three times because we could not do it right, and even though we it finally clicked, it threw the rest of the workout off and we had to shorten our kick set which affects the rest of the week, and long term hurts YOU ALL!  

If you have notice everything we do in practice has a purpose and leads to the next thing.  Let’s use yesterday Senior Prep workout as an example.  Towards the end of practice we were getting fatigued and all of a sudden the last set was an ALL OUT kick set without boards.  Some of you looked puzzled but the truth of the matter is that you are fatigued 😩at the end of your races and that is when you need those legs to get you to the finish line!🏁
As we said yesterday each of our sets has one or two key words in it to focus on, and if you choose to ignore those than you are just swimming laps and while you may get faster, in the long run taking those shortcuts will catch up to you.  We all learned this from the time we were infants, it started with crawling,walking, running, eating, talking and for an athlete it is no different.  It all comes down to muscle memory be it speed, turns stroke or breathing.
Pay attention to what you are doing in practice and what the sets are designed to accomplish

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