by
Olivier Poirier-Leroy
Each day at the pool, you have some decisions to make, weighing the trade-offs. Here’s how to choose faster and better swimming.
When it comes to doing the right thing for your swimming, there will often be times where we need to make a decision:
In these moments, we pretend to negotiate the trade-offs with ourselves, presenting the easy option as the right option:
The problem is that during these negotiations, our brain is hyper-focused on alleviating how we are feeling in the moment.
And this makes total sense…
After all, the decisions represented above are more likely to make us feel good.
But the problem is that these decisions don’t rationally weight the long-term trade-offs of the solution provided…
In the end, the trade-offs skew hard against you and your goals in the water.
Exercising some smart decision-making and delaying gratification may not feel good right now, but it will feel great in the long run.
Whether you are tired of choking on race day, want to finally conquer your mindset so that you can give your PB’s the beating they deserve, or want to develop a killer game plan for your mindset, Conquer the Pool is your ticket to faster swimming.
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Olivier Poirier-Leroy Olivier Poirier-Leroy is the founder of YourSwimLog.com. He is an author, former national level swimmer, two-time Olympic Trials qualifier, and swim coach.
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