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Questions you always wanted to ask your coach but were afraid to ask.
- Did you ever want to ask your coach a question but couldn’t find the right way of asking the question?
- Did you ever have something you wanted to say to your coach but couldn’t find the right moment?
- Did you ever want to sit down with your coach and discuss some stuff you have been wondering about but never had the chance?
Well – here’s your chance!
Questions you always wanted to ask your coach but were afraid to ask! Read more
December 1, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: Mental Skills and Attitudes, Swimming Coaching, Swimming Competition Tips, Swimming Racing Tips, Swimming Technique, Swimming Training Tips
Swimming Psyche Outs. How to be in control, confident and composed when faced with psyche outs (and how to use them to your advantage!!). Part Two.
Ten things you can do to respond to a psyche out-er:
- Smile;
- Say “thanks”;
- Shake their hand and say “I really appreciate your support”;
- Laugh and say “is that the best you can come up with?”;
- Tell them, “I am sorry. I really wasn’t listening to you”;
- Tell them an even bigger “exaggeration”;
- Walk away;
- Say, “wow – I am really lucky to be racing someone as talented and gifted as you”;
- Keep chatting with family and friends.
But the best thing of all is to……………ignore them and swim your best.
Psyche out practice – dealing with Dirty Downers. Read more
November 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: Mental Skills and Attitudes, Swimming Coaching, Swimming Competition Tips, Swimming Technique, Swimming Training Tips
Swimming Psyche Outs. How to be in control, confident and composed when faced with psyche outs (and how to use them to your advantage!!). Part One.
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it.” John ruskin
How many times do you hear a football player or baseballer or basketballer say something like “It was tough out there today. The other team really psyched us out”.
Sportspeople talk about the psyche out as something someone else did to them – that someone somehow did something mystical or magical that impacted on their performance.
Lots of people talk about psyching out…………..so what is it?
What is a psyche out? Read more
November 2, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: Mental Skills and Attitudes, Swimming Coaching, Swimming Racing Tips, Swimming Technique, Swimming Training Tips
Motivation: 50 Tricks, Tips and Techniques or How to find the fire when the fire isn’t firing!!!
- Set your self a daily goal to improve by one tenth of one inch. Anyone can improve one tenth of an inch each day. Over a week that’s almost an inch. That’s about 4 inches a month. That’s about 3 feet a year…..and 12 feet every Olympic cycle.
- If you are in a pace line (i.e. a line of swimmers) chase the feet of the person in front of you.
- If you are leading the pace line, imagine the person behind you is a shark or crocodile and you need to make sure you stay ahead of them!
- Promise yourself a small gift or reward for improving your skills and drills – reward excellence in technique – technique is the key to swimming success.
- Encourage other swimmers – the better your team mates perform – the more it will lift you and your performance – “a rising tide lifts all the boats”.
- Keep a training diary and write in it three things you improved each day.
- Keep a PB record sheet on your wall. Watch how you improve over time.
- Remember you are special. How many people are prepared to get out of bed at 5 am, train hard and balance school, swimming and life the way you do?
- Link your seasonsby making your short course PBs this season your long course PBs next season. Read more
September 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: Mental Skills and Attitudes, Swimming Coaching, Swimming Science, Swimming Technique, Swimming Training Tips
Twenty Things to do NOW if you want to Win Gold at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
1. Start training – today!
Every day – every session – every lap is an opportunity to improve something: your skills, your speed, your fitness, your technique, your pacing, your breathing control….get in there and start working towards London…. today.
2. Believe anything is possible.
Imagine Phelps on the blocks about to swim the first heat of his first event in Beijing. Can you imagine him thinking, “Wow – I don’t think I can do this. It’s going to be too hard. I will never beat the “Sptiz” record”. No way! Winning in London in 2012 means believing you can do it right now! Read more
September 2, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: london, Mental Skills and Attitudes, swim, swimming, Swimming Coaching, Swimming Technique, Swimming Training Tips
The Ten Myths of Swimming.
The dictionary says:
myth (noun)
- a traditional story of unknown authorship, ostensibly with a historical basis, but serving usually to explain some phenomenon of nature, the origin of man, or the customs, institutions, religious rites, etc. of a people: myths usually involve the exploits of gods and heroes
- such stories collectively; mythology
- any fictitious story, or unscientific account, theory, belief, etc.
- any imaginary person or thing spoken of as though existing
There’s the Yeti.
There’s the Sasquatch.
There’s the shopping cart with four good wheels.
There’s the low fat, great tasting chocolate cake.
And there’s these….the ten myths of swimming. Read more
September 2, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: Mental Skills and Attitudes, swim, swimming, Swimming Coaching, Swimming Science, Swimming Technique, Swimming Training Tips
