Writing Out Your Workouts and Reflecting on Them Works
Writing out your swim practices is a common practice. But if you want to take your swimming to the next level, start monitoring what you are doing in the water.
Writing out your swim practices is a common practice. But if you want to take your swimming to the next level, start monitoring what you are doing in the water.
Not giving up in the face of failure and adversity is a big component of your success in the pool. But persistence alone isn’t enough.
Feeling like your swimming is a little stuck in the mud? Frustrated that things aren’t going as smoothly as you planned? Here’s your guide to conquering the fall training slump.
Getting back into the water after a big lay-off? Worried that you have lost your technique, conditioning and patience to do the hard work? Here’s your guide to conquering a lay-off from the pool.
The self-talk you use in the water predicts how fast and far you are willing to go. Here’s more on how better self-talk can boost endurance at the pool.
Racing and competition does some funny things to swimmers. For coaches, it can be wildly infuriating and confounding to watch a swimmer do something one
We surveyed four NCAA teams and almost a hundred swimmers to see what kind of mental approach they take to practice and competition. Here’s what we learned.
If you want to swim faster and maximize your preparation in the water, make sure you are focused on real solutions and not fake problems.
Swimming faster than you ever have before isn’t about the swimmer in the next lane. It starts with going head to head with the toughest competition of all—you.
For the swimmer who struggles with staying positive during main sets, the path forward starts with managing their self-talk.