I am looking to begin swimming again. I would also like to compete. There is a group near me with times I can go, I just need to get in there. I swam competively for 3 years in HS, and haven't since. I also taught swimming lessons, and lifeguarded for 4 years. My HS swimming was cut short by a pregnancy in the beginning of my senior year, or I probably would have swam at college as well... I used to be pretty good, and really enjoyed all aspects of swimming. Any tips for a "newbie"? TIA!
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To convience yourself pizza is a bad choice do something very similar. Every time you start to think about wanting pizza picture something so horrible that it would make you sick as a topping on the pizza. Pretty soon the thought of a pizza will make you sick. But then you probably won't be able to enjoy pizza occasionally. This is an old psychology trick where the adverse stimulant is connected to the positive/reinforcing stimulant so eventually the positive becomes a negative.
