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?
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.
You're tough enough to still be in the water with all that going on in your head. No fraudulence there! Sounds like you're bored or stressed out. I would think that mixing it up a little by cross-training or trying something new might help. If you spend hours at the pool coaching and then swimming, you might just need a little break from the pool for awhile!
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.
You're tough enough to still be in the water with all that going on in your head. No fraudulence there! Sounds like you're bored or stressed out. I would think that mixing it up a little by cross-training or trying something new might help. If you spend hours at the pool coaching and then swimming, you might just need a little break from the pool for awhile!
