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?
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:applaud: Exactly!!!
QUOTE=thewookiee;230986]Wolf,
To a point, I can relate. I love to swim. I love to go to practice with my teammates or swim on my own.
Since beginning of Sept., I have had zero desire to go to meets. I use to hate it when I would miss a chance to swim during the week. Since sept., if I missed a swim, it didn't bother me one bit.
I have made goals for my favorite events and goals for events that I don't normally swim as away of getting more motivated. Yet, they don't seem to be working as well.
I don't know if it is the nagging issue with my left arm/upper back or if I am just don't care right now. I think a large part is the issue with my left arm/back(wondering if I have pinched a nerve)
The best I can offer you is exactly what I do. Each day that you want to swim, go swim. Swim has hard or as easy as you want too. Just enjoy the time in the water. Be 30 minutes or 90 minutes.
This is what I do. I try to swim 5-6 times/week because I love swimming and being in the pool. Somedays I push myself. Somedays I just float my way through practices. Don't get too worked-up either way about your preformances and just enjoy being in the pool.
:applaud: Exactly!!!
QUOTE=thewookiee;230986]Wolf,
To a point, I can relate. I love to swim. I love to go to practice with my teammates or swim on my own.
Since beginning of Sept., I have had zero desire to go to meets. I use to hate it when I would miss a chance to swim during the week. Since sept., if I missed a swim, it didn't bother me one bit.
I have made goals for my favorite events and goals for events that I don't normally swim as away of getting more motivated. Yet, they don't seem to be working as well.
I don't know if it is the nagging issue with my left arm/upper back or if I am just don't care right now. I think a large part is the issue with my left arm/back(wondering if I have pinched a nerve)
The best I can offer you is exactly what I do. Each day that you want to swim, go swim. Swim has hard or as easy as you want too. Just enjoy the time in the water. Be 30 minutes or 90 minutes.
This is what I do. I try to swim 5-6 times/week because I love swimming and being in the pool. Somedays I push myself. Somedays I just float my way through practices. Don't get too worked-up either way about your preformances and just enjoy being in the pool.
