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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Fabulous advice Allen :bow: :bow: :bow: .
Morgan - You have nothing to loose by taking it, I hope you do.
Thanks everyone for the input, I've been away at a meet so I just got back to see all this tonight.
But, I have had many a sit down conversation with my coach, regarding the fact that I don't feel his practices are helping me specifically as a sprinter and I gave him a binder I had kept through the years that had probably around 400 workouts in it, and he copied them all, and I have never seen him use any of them. Unfortunately the problems that plague the relationship between my coach and I are not issues of miscommunication, but rather, an apathetic attitude on his part. He knew that I transfered schools after freshman year, because I had high hopes of making the NCAAs division II champioinships...I thought that him knowing that would be sufficient of an indicator that I wanted to be pushed, and challenged and would give it all it required to get there...but as we are discussing on the olympics thread...there's only so much a swimmer can do on their own without a real ever-present coach who is going to work with you to realize your potential and aspirations.
I am meeting with the coach at NYU hopefully during my spring break...because if he feels there is a place for me on that team, it may be a good option for me. As I intend to attend NYU for graduate school, and therefore, if I were to take next year off...my eligibility would be back during my first year of graduate school. Of course thats only an option to be considered.
Additionally, one of my major complaints with my team is that he has reinvented me as a swimmer in many ways. When I came to the college I was a 200freestyler and a 100flyer and I swam the 200im and the 100free occasionally. At this school I am always in the 50 and 100free, and never get a chance to move around and test other events. So come championship time...I have a time in 3 events...and thats what I get stuck swimming at championships...regardless of how I feel about the event. I am not against the 50 free per-say...but it's definitly not going to ever get me anywhere, esp. not any more....we don't practice starts or turns...which is pretty much...all there is to a 50free.
But, we have 8 more practices left, and then we leave for championships...so....I suppose the end of the season will be the tell tale indicator. :rolleyes:
Fabulous advice Allen :bow: :bow: :bow: .
Morgan - You have nothing to loose by taking it, I hope you do.
Thanks everyone for the input, I've been away at a meet so I just got back to see all this tonight.
But, I have had many a sit down conversation with my coach, regarding the fact that I don't feel his practices are helping me specifically as a sprinter and I gave him a binder I had kept through the years that had probably around 400 workouts in it, and he copied them all, and I have never seen him use any of them. Unfortunately the problems that plague the relationship between my coach and I are not issues of miscommunication, but rather, an apathetic attitude on his part. He knew that I transfered schools after freshman year, because I had high hopes of making the NCAAs division II champioinships...I thought that him knowing that would be sufficient of an indicator that I wanted to be pushed, and challenged and would give it all it required to get there...but as we are discussing on the olympics thread...there's only so much a swimmer can do on their own without a real ever-present coach who is going to work with you to realize your potential and aspirations.
I am meeting with the coach at NYU hopefully during my spring break...because if he feels there is a place for me on that team, it may be a good option for me. As I intend to attend NYU for graduate school, and therefore, if I were to take next year off...my eligibility would be back during my first year of graduate school. Of course thats only an option to be considered.
Additionally, one of my major complaints with my team is that he has reinvented me as a swimmer in many ways. When I came to the college I was a 200freestyler and a 100flyer and I swam the 200im and the 100free occasionally. At this school I am always in the 50 and 100free, and never get a chance to move around and test other events. So come championship time...I have a time in 3 events...and thats what I get stuck swimming at championships...regardless of how I feel about the event. I am not against the 50 free per-say...but it's definitly not going to ever get me anywhere, esp. not any more....we don't practice starts or turns...which is pretty much...all there is to a 50free.
But, we have 8 more practices left, and then we leave for championships...so....I suppose the end of the season will be the tell tale indicator. :rolleyes:
