BALANCING LIFE’s CHALLENGES

 As a swimmer sometimes it becomes hard to park life issues at the door as you arrive to the pool 🏊‍♀️ for either a training session or a meet.  Remember this if you have done the work it becomes all mental.

PRE-RACE MISTAKE #4

Carrying life issues onto the pool deck.

Parking these issues at the door can be challenging be it; homework, gossip, a fight with a friend or any other number of hassles that smack you head on and sometimes they hit you when you least expect it like on a idle Tuesday afternoon.  One of your goals mentally has to be able to separate them from your swimming 🏊‍♀️.

If you take life worries into training or competition you become distracted and not fully focused on the task at hand.  Do you allow life’s worries to influence your swimming?

HAKUNA MATATA. "NO WORRIES"

                                               

PRE-RACE MISTAKE #5

OVERTHINKING YOUR RACE BEFORE YOU STEP ONTO THE BLOCKS

Are you a perfectionist who thinks about every part of your race over and over in your head.  Overthinking something that you have already done over and over again.  Something as common and normal as putting on your suit.  

It’s like that student (I was guilty of that)) who spends the weekend cramming for that final exam although  they know the material if they have been preparing all year.  If you haven’t been preparing all year I’m sorry but, I’ve got nothing for you other than give it a shot.  If you have done the work you’ve got this.

Your goal here is to feel prepared as you walk onto the pool deck.  You don’t want to panic and have the your whole meet go into a tailspin.

PRE-RACE MISTAKE #6 

Worrying too much about results or outcomes  

You have your plan for your race and know you need to go out and execute your plan.  Worrying about results and outcomes is about as good as worrying about where the sun rises and sets.  The universe has a plan and it executes it every day, the sun 🌞 rises in the east and sets in the west.  A lot of this comes from  your personality and what causes you to become anxious is different from swimmer to swimmer. 

Your anxiety comes from worrying about outcomes and results when all you should worry about is racing and executing your plan.  After all you can’t stop the clock, all you can do is race and get your hands to that pad.  The clock is going to determine what the numbers are when that happens.  Maybe you’re anxious about what others will think if you post a bad time.  Stop worrying it’s a sport that is suppose to be fun and everyone that matters will still love ❤️ you.

It’s up to us to come up with a plan to manage your anxiety.😬.

PREP SET FROM THURSDAY 

RACING THE GREEN

Object is to hold speed and race the green monster.  No backing down

10 ROUNDS
1x25 free @55
1x50 free @55
1x75 free @55
1x25 back @55 active recovery

You all did a great job with this installing confidence in what is possible 

What I really liked is how you all worked together with these 2 three word phrases you encouraged each other with—“LOCK IT IN”—-“LOCK IT DOWN”   GREAT 👍 JOB.