I train to compete. I am fine in training most of the time but lately, the last year or so, my times in meets have gotten quite a bit slower and now I get so anxious before a race that I feel sick. Today I had a SCM meet here I only went to swim the 400 IM. I dry heaved in the corner until they were about to call my heat. How can I get past this? I;m working on getting faster in practice (I'm injured and coming off surgery) but slower in the meets is something that has been lingering and causing the anxiety. Help!
Great advice! how to read those people are seeing who wrote it. Allen, you should be a psychiatrist! swimming a lot of meets really does help, btw. also, as unpleasant have anxiety feels, perhaps it is your way of getting up for meets. Dr. J., or some other famous basketball player would get so nervous before every game thatt he would throw up. he finally acknowledge that this was just the way he got up for games, and afterwards it no longer bother him, though he continued to vomit on a regular basis.
That would be Bill Russell. www.pharmacytimes.com/.../2006-02-5217 One of my college teammates would vomit before big meets, like championship meets and rivalry dual meets. We actually took as a positive sign that he was psyched up and was about to have a big meet. So he'd puke on the pool deck and someone might yell, "Mazel tov!" :chug:
Great advice! how to read those people are seeing who wrote it. Allen, you should be a psychiatrist! swimming a lot of meets really does help, btw. also, as unpleasant have anxiety feels, perhaps it is your way of getting up for meets. Dr. J., or some other famous basketball player would get so nervous before every game thatt he would throw up. he finally acknowledge that this was just the way he got up for games, and afterwards it no longer bother him, though he continued to vomit on a regular basis.
That would be Bill Russell. www.pharmacytimes.com/.../2006-02-5217 One of my college teammates would vomit before big meets, like championship meets and rivalry dual meets. We actually took as a positive sign that he was psyched up and was about to have a big meet. So he'd puke on the pool deck and someone might yell, "Mazel tov!" :chug:
