What are your new years resolutions for swimming? Mine is to get on a regular practice schedule and stick with it.
also my goal times for the colonies zone scy champs are
50 free-21.3 going for top 10 for usms 18-24 age group
100 free-47.99 going for top 10
50 fly-23.75 going for top 10
100 ***- 1:02.99 might be good enough for top 10
100 IM-57.99
I wanted to swim 50 *** instead of IM but the 50 *** and 50 free are back to back with the 50 free being after ***. Im really trying to get a good time in the 50 free so im not doing 50 ***. Im mad about that becasue 50 *** is my second favorite event.
I also want to get in a LCM meet this summer.
I get it ... that's tough. I constantly race people in practice, too ... whether they know it or not. There are some I can't come close to (especially our distance guys) and others I can wear down. With the one guy that is considerably faster than me I try not to let him catch me on say a 500. I can hold him off on those now ... he seems to be able to endlessly hold a riddiculously fast pace without any effort (though I know he is working hard) ...
I try to pace myself with the clock, I sneak a peak every 100 or so on longer sets and try to hold the pace I go on the first one, it doesn't happen often. My favorite way to psyche myself up is I tell myself the more I push and the faster I swim the more rest I'll get ... I also remind myself that I'll feel a lot better once it's over if I go hard the whole time, I used to write all my workouts down and how I was feeling ... so when I backed off or skipped part of a set I wrote that down and was so much more motivated the next practice.
I also remember hearing Michael Phelps say that he was in pain every practice, and thinking well, if he's that good and he's in pain then I need to push that hard, too. I used to think that once I got fast enough, strong enough, good enough I wouldn't be in pain any more ... now I realize that I need to be in pain (to a reasonable extent) every practice if I really want to get better.
Why do you want to become a distance swimmer?!?!?!
I get it ... that's tough. I constantly race people in practice, too ... whether they know it or not. There are some I can't come close to (especially our distance guys) and others I can wear down. With the one guy that is considerably faster than me I try not to let him catch me on say a 500. I can hold him off on those now ... he seems to be able to endlessly hold a riddiculously fast pace without any effort (though I know he is working hard) ...
I try to pace myself with the clock, I sneak a peak every 100 or so on longer sets and try to hold the pace I go on the first one, it doesn't happen often. My favorite way to psyche myself up is I tell myself the more I push and the faster I swim the more rest I'll get ... I also remind myself that I'll feel a lot better once it's over if I go hard the whole time, I used to write all my workouts down and how I was feeling ... so when I backed off or skipped part of a set I wrote that down and was so much more motivated the next practice.
I also remember hearing Michael Phelps say that he was in pain every practice, and thinking well, if he's that good and he's in pain then I need to push that hard, too. I used to think that once I got fast enough, strong enough, good enough I wouldn't be in pain any more ... now I realize that I need to be in pain (to a reasonable extent) every practice if I really want to get better.
Why do you want to become a distance swimmer?!?!?!
