The 90 Day Experiment

Nationals is almost 90 days away so I wanted to encourage y'all to try the The 90 Day Experiment www.usms.org/.../showpost.php the training and choices we make now have a big influence over how we'll do at Nats hope it helps you get ready Ande Swim Faster Faster: Tip 56 The 90 Day Experiment Your potential to swim faster faster could astound you. Your potential is what you are really capable of. Most of us wind up settling for far less than what we could have been. What would happen if you chose one event and perfectly prepared for it for 90 days? 90 days gives you enough time to train hard and taper. It gives you enough time to make remarkable improvements which are likely to create significant results. What if you did every thing right? What if you prepared for that swim as perfectly as you possibly could? What if you: + Got a great coach + Got in a great program + Stayed healthy and injury free + Perfected your body and weighed your ideal weight + Ate a healthy diet and drank plenty of water + Improved your strength and conditioning + Trained in the pool 6 days a week, harder, faster, and further than ever before. What if you perfectly split each fast swim in practice? What if you pushed yourself to your true limits rather than what you think you're capable of? + Got plenty of sleep each night and woke up rested and ready to train + Perfected your stroke technique + Perfectly planned your season, when to train, when to taper + Mastered the mental aspects Goals, Plans, Action, motivation, ideal performance state, self image, acting as if, handling fatigue and pain, are a few + Always got to practice on time and never missed a practice? + Had good luck in your final race, where the little things fell in your favor? Like a fast start, hit all your turns, perfectly split your race + what else? What's missing from this list? What if you did every aspect of your preparation for your event as perfectly as possible? I say you would be astounded by how much you improved Your time in your event would prove your improvement. But the reality is, we fall far from perfection, things go wrong all the time I encourage you to strive for perfection and do the best you can. Here is the simple truth. How well you PERFORM depends upon how well you PREPARE. Try perfect preparation for a day, then a week, then try a month. Then try it for 90 days and reap the results. I hope you astound yourself. Here's what you need to do: 1) Commit to 90 day experiement, pull out your calendar and decide when to start and when it will end. 2) Test yourself in that event on day zero, the day before you begin the 90-day experiment. What time did you swim it in? How did you split it? How did it feel? 3) Set a goal, write a plan and follow it each day. Perfectly prepare for 90 days 4) At the end of 90 days Test yourself again, preferably in a meet. What's your time? How did you split it? How much did you improve? How did it feel? If you don't have time for a 90 day experiment, try 15, 30, 45, 60, or 75 days instead. go for it, and if you do please let me know how it went. Wishing you the best of luck.