Seems I’ve lost my mojo. Can’t decide the cause (winter blah’s, hot training water, demoralizing training group, chronic injuries, what?) so it’s hard to know how to fight back. I don’t feel depressed, but when I get in the pool, I’m acting depressed. It’s like I’m afraid to get out of breath – or like I’m just not interested in working that hard any more. All of a sudden it’s a struggle to go to the gym. In fact, this morning, I didn’t. I have a great excuse, with “frozen shoulder” (how does that happen to a swimmer?) so upper body weight lifting is OUT for a while, but I could go and work on abs and legs. But instead I slept in. I even scratched a meet this month. Haven’t done that in a while; I’ve scratched events, but not an entire meet. Anybody have any great ideas on how to get that spark back? So I’m excited for the race again? Excited to “get after it”?
Thanks in advance!
Everyone goes through cycles of motivation.All the tips so far are good.It's fine to take some time off from swimming.If you do you will probably begin to miss it and then you'll be back.Another thing you may do is pick a meet and enter events you never swim.You'll be guaranteed to get PBs and it may take the pressure off.Also consider doing only 3 or so events and spend most of the meet socializing.
Everyone goes through cycles of motivation.All the tips so far are good.It's fine to take some time off from swimming.If you do you will probably begin to miss it and then you'll be back.Another thing you may do is pick a meet and enter events you never swim.You'll be guaranteed to get PBs and it may take the pressure off.Also consider doing only 3 or so events and spend most of the meet socializing.
