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CHASING DREAMS AND SETTING GOALS

Today let's turn our focus to the pool side of your upcoming year.  Before you even dive into the water

ask yourself these two questions; What can I do to to reach my GOALS and DREAMS for this season?  When should I start?  First off you should have started  the day after your last practice.  

If you have goals and dreams for your short course season you NEED to start chasing them now and not wait until the time is convenient for you.  Funny thing about dreams and goals the longer you wait the further they run away from you until it becomes impossible to catch regardless of your efforts.  First goal I would like all of you to make is, I won't be that swimmer.

So how do we prepare mentally to get ready for our upcoming season.  The first thing is to take a honest look back at the previous season.  What worked?  What didn't work?  Did you focus on your fundamentals with consistency or only when an important meet was coming up?  Did you meet your goals?  I venture to guess that there were stretches last season when things all went your way.  You were in that zone.  Reflect on those times and write down how you felt, what music you listened to, what you ate, your workouts and so on.  In other words take all those positive things and store them away.  Take all the negative stretches away from last season and let them go, we are not going to dwell on them as we are moving forward into the new season.

In order for you to be successful in this sport, you need to mentally challenge yourself. You need to start building good habits from day one.  Everyone should have this as their number one goal, be consistent with your workouts. Some other examples off building good habits are;
  • Be on time for workouts and meets.  (if practice starts at 5 that means caps on bags at there edge of the pool ready to go.  we are not putting our c app on arg 5.)
  • Dolphin kicks- start from day 1 with a minimum of 3 overtime you leave the wall.
  • Turns- every wall- speed in-speed out- deep arm pull no breath.
  • Hydration- bring your water bottles- drink so you can maintain your energy level.
  • Time Management- It's critical that you stay up with your academics so that you can run your schedule.  Don't let work pile up putting you in the position where your schedule is running you
  • Journals-  From time to time connect with your journals and write down how it's going.  'Your ups and downs.  What worked or didn't work.  Sets you like. Sets you didn't like.
Get ready to Rock your swimming with good habits.

Have a Great weekend!

Enjoy that first day of school.





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