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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OK, sorry, I hear you.
Sounds like the OP is swimming for weight management, though, so I thinking dropping down to two practices a week would be detrimental to this unless she added in something else to replace the lost swimming.
Detrimental only if OP is in a hurry to lose the weight ;) Dropping practices in half isn't going to cause weight GAIN either... it'll just not be as fast as it would otherwise be. I guess I feel it'd be worth dropping practices down if it saves someone from quitting altogether over burnout. Some swimming is still better than none in a weight loss program.
OK, sorry, I hear you.
Sounds like the OP is swimming for weight management, though, so I thinking dropping down to two practices a week would be detrimental to this unless she added in something else to replace the lost swimming.
Detrimental only if OP is in a hurry to lose the weight ;) Dropping practices in half isn't going to cause weight GAIN either... it'll just not be as fast as it would otherwise be. I guess I feel it'd be worth dropping practices down if it saves someone from quitting altogether over burnout. Some swimming is still better than none in a weight loss program.
