Ande has done a great job of having all the various physical aspects of swimming covered but I need help with the mental aspects.
I'm really struggling with negative self-talk while I'm swimming. It feels like there's a huge jumbo-tron in my brain and messages are just running accross it non-stop while I'm swimming:
'Give up'
'ease up'
'quit'
'breaststroke's coming up, why not stop?'
'you suck'
I'm having trouble getting this stream of consciousness to stop. Not only that but I feel like such a fraud with my kids when I'm coaching. I stand there and tell them to get tough mentally but I seem to have the mental fortitude of a Krispy Kreme.
Not being able to 'get out of my head' seems to only happen when I swim.
Help?
Jeff,
I wish it was just an occasional thing but it's every time I hit the water. One thing I've noticed is that when I do a solo workout (doesn't happen very often), I can push myself but when I'm with my Masters team, I just want to fold like a house of cards.
Jeff,
I wish it was just an occasional thing but it's every time I hit the water. One thing I've noticed is that when I do a solo workout (doesn't happen very often), I can push myself but when I'm with my Masters team, I just want to fold like a house of cards.
