Pep talks, watching the epic swims of past Olympians, and an endless barrage of motivational quotes can work in a pinch, but here are some long-term strategies that you can use to help truly motivate your swimmers.
Concentration and focus are one the biggie, if not the biggiest, factors when it comes to success in the water. Whether it’s staying dialed in during practice, or managing outside distractions in competition, here are some ways that swim coaches can help their swimmers get and stay focused on what matters.
Being able to control your focus means you are going to swim with better technique, get more enjoyment from the process, and ultimately, swim faster. Here’s the swimmer’s guide to being a focus machine at the pool.
Swimming your best means stress and pressure. Often, swimmers also worry about disappointing their swim parents. Here’s how to balance out the swimmer-swim parent relationship so that you can do what everyone wants–to swim fast.
When teammates perform well, and you don’t, you are provided an opportunity to supercharge your own improvement. Here’s how.
The swim season can feel like a grind. There’s lots of early morning workouts, soggy towels and weekend-long swim meets ahead. To help you make
Affirmations are proven way to develop a mindset that allows swimmers to get the most of themselves in practice and on race day. Here’s how.
At the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Misty Hyman pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the competition. Here’s how adversity helped fuel her win in the 200m butterfly.
Have a hard time sticking to your long term commitments in the water? Even your short term ones? Here’s how to get better at the skill of keeping your commitments in training.
Here’s a chart-topping classic that I get emailed all the time: I work my tail off at practice, but it doesn’t seem like I am
