Hi all,
I've been faithfully going to practice 6x week for the past last year without missing but for the occasional work event/meeting keeping me away. I'd say about two weeks ago, after having a few months of making some good improvement in my times, I just started to feel bad in the water in general. I didn't feel like I was progressing at all. I felt like getting through practice was all I could do. I'm not ill or anything.
Now for the past week except for Monday, I've ignored all three of my alarm clocks and have not come to practice despite a fully packed bag ready to go.
I guess I'm just a bit burned out. I feel guilty for missing and know that every day that I'm out of the water I will have a even more painful return swim, but that’s just not been enough to get me out of bed.
Any suggestions for beating burn out?
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But is this really where you want to be weight-wise? Maybe you could swim more and you'd lose the weight. It's not just about swimming fast in masters, after all.
I realize this and I wasn't really trying to say that i'm better off overweight or anything like that. I'm in no real hurry, and the weight IS dropping doing what i'm doing, albeit not as fast as if i was actively trying to lose it (down about 20lbs since december). I more put that fact in there for a reference point to attempt to explain why the times were indeed slower.
IF the weight slows one down, then perhaps my current "slower" times are alot more on par with midseason college swims back in the day. (i was always low 22's untapered). If the weight is indeed the factor keeping me in the low 23's, then maybe i'm not all that far off doing about 1/5th the yardage per week of what i did back then.
IF the weight doesn't actually slow a person down, then maybe I really have gotten slower relative to myself over time. Perhaps then my argument is wrong that a quality 6-7k yards per week is just as valuable as 25-30k of mindless yard pounding to keep the race speed up.
But is this really where you want to be weight-wise? Maybe you could swim more and you'd lose the weight. It's not just about swimming fast in masters, after all.
I realize this and I wasn't really trying to say that i'm better off overweight or anything like that. I'm in no real hurry, and the weight IS dropping doing what i'm doing, albeit not as fast as if i was actively trying to lose it (down about 20lbs since december). I more put that fact in there for a reference point to attempt to explain why the times were indeed slower.
IF the weight slows one down, then perhaps my current "slower" times are alot more on par with midseason college swims back in the day. (i was always low 22's untapered). If the weight is indeed the factor keeping me in the low 23's, then maybe i'm not all that far off doing about 1/5th the yardage per week of what i did back then.
IF the weight doesn't actually slow a person down, then maybe I really have gotten slower relative to myself over time. Perhaps then my argument is wrong that a quality 6-7k yards per week is just as valuable as 25-30k of mindless yard pounding to keep the race speed up.
