1. Getting involved in the hype by reading the papers and/or looking up your stats. After your season is over, then you can check this stuff out. During the season, focus on always improving. 2. Associating with negative people. They will slow you down and taint your progress during the season. Keep your distance from…
Passion– You don’t want to swim or dive just for the sake of swimming and diving, or because your friends do it, or because you just want to win. You want to compete because you love it, and you’re passionate about it. If you truly love swimming and/or diving, then it’s not going to seem…
1. Compete in Swimming and Diving because YOU want to. Your happiness and well-being is more important than success. If running track or competing in a field event isn’t in your heart, then try something else. Don’t do it for someone else, do what YOU love for YOU.2. Focus on the process not the outcome. If you…
Here are the 7 Cardinal Sins of Mindset in Swimming and Diving: 1. Indifference/Apathy – There’s no room for these feelings if you want to develop your skills and improve your performance. Always put in 110%.2. Stubbornness – Being stubborn leads to being uncoachable, which leads to being unsuccessful. Be open-minded and you might be…
Avoid becoming too much of a fan, instead of an athlete. If you’re about to swim against a team in your league, don’t look up their stats or find them in the newspaper. At meets, don’t watch the highest ranked swimmers competing against each other too much either. All of those things will make you…
1. Never be outworked. Always put in 110% of your effort and you won’t be outworked. 2. Don’t focus on your statistics. Sometimes an off-day can throw off your statistics. So just focus on making the next day a better day. 3. Remember that being the biggest or strongest player on the field doesn’t make…