Hi. :help:
Was just wondering how you handle practicing by yourself. My team only practices two times a week and that is obviously not enough time in the water to improve. At practice, we do anywhere between 3,200 and 3,800... and I usually do the same when I swim by myself (right now I'm getting in two solo practices, but I'd like to do more). Usually the USS team or High School is practicing at the same time and that sorta helps get me moving. But how do you guys motivate yourself to keep going - because weekly I am starting to ask myself - "why am I doing this"... when I'm trudging along solo. I do compete and love it... but I just get down and in the gutters once in a while. I usually get my workouts from the "workout forum" here on the site... but do you have any thoughts on how to get more motivated? I hope I don't sound desperate, but just need some feedback from those who are going thru the same thing.
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This is actually a kinda funny thread...for me at least, because I have typically over the years swam 6 days a week with a team...and over those years I have lost a lot of mojo and motivation, because a lot of time team practices are repetitive, long, yarbage-garbage yardage, and not stroke/event specific. My first USS team, and my college team are perfect examples. So I have found that when the season ends, or when I have the time and write my own workouts and head to the pool to swim solo I am much more motivated..because I am doing workouts that I have written, that I want to do, and that I feel are helping me to reach my goals. Maybe if you were to pick a goal your most focused on and then cut and paste from various workouts on here or make you own, you would be more motivated? I figure you can't slack off at a practice you wrote! haha
...doesnt hurt when theres a cute guy lifeguarding that I want to impress either...that does tons to help keep the speed and HR up;-p
This is actually a kinda funny thread...for me at least, because I have typically over the years swam 6 days a week with a team...and over those years I have lost a lot of mojo and motivation, because a lot of time team practices are repetitive, long, yarbage-garbage yardage, and not stroke/event specific. My first USS team, and my college team are perfect examples. So I have found that when the season ends, or when I have the time and write my own workouts and head to the pool to swim solo I am much more motivated..because I am doing workouts that I have written, that I want to do, and that I feel are helping me to reach my goals. Maybe if you were to pick a goal your most focused on and then cut and paste from various workouts on here or make you own, you would be more motivated? I figure you can't slack off at a practice you wrote! haha
...doesnt hurt when theres a cute guy lifeguarding that I want to impress either...that does tons to help keep the speed and HR up;-p
