“Mindset is everything. The difference between a good day and a bad day comes down to your choice of attitude.”
One of the most important choices you can make in life and your swimming, is the attitude you choose. Anything becomes possible if you have the right attitude and perspective.
The "AMA" for swimmers;
- A is the ability of what you're capable of doing.
- M is for the motivation that will determine what you do.
- A is the attitude that will determine how well you do it.
On a good day of swimming everything just clicks. In workouts you are moving through the water as if you're flowing with the current. In competition everything goes right start, breakout, turns, pace and finish. But what happens when things go wrong and the plan doesn't seem to be working the way you think it should. Do you abandon the plan? Do you fall apart both emotionally and physically? Your at a moment when pressure and adversity rise up and smack you in the face.
Some swimmers will choose to give up and feel sorry for themselves. They will complain and start making excuses. Sometimes they will start making excuses before they even swim which they believe gives them a way "out" and a honest reason not to give it their all. A good swimmer will dig deep and use their mental toughness and positive attitude to keep moving forward.
"You never lose, you learn." The first step to overcoming failure is to accept it. Let's look at the word Failure and think of it as an acronym: FAIL which stands for "FIRST ACTION IN LEARNING." When you come to terms with the results and reality in front of you, you are able to embrace it and work towards making things better. this is the best way to progress, move forward and improve.
Excellence is an attitude and without the right attitude, greatness isn't obtainable.
Our first week of workouts went really well for all three of the groups (senior prep, junior gold, junior blue). The week’s workouts focused on four major themes.
- Free and back strokes
- Body lines, alignments
- Streamlines and underwater kicks
- Kicking lots of kicking
Parents all four of these areas will form a solid foundation for everything we hope to accomplish as we work through the season. Without this solid foundation to build on we would be throwing things at the wall and the hopes it will stick. Patience is the key word for the few weeks so that when we get into the meat of the season (January thru March) we will see some good fast swimming with a lot of confidence.
The junior gold group did this main set on Friday. They were awesome as they worked through the set and parents you can be proud of your little 🏊.
This weeks trivia: Which land animal can swim up to 20 miles a day and use its nose like a natural snorkel?
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