The Most Important Part of Holiday Training
The Most Important Part of Holiday Training
By Mike Gustafson//Correspondent
About ten years ago, I embarked on my final, last training trip of my collegiate career. My college swim team stayed home in Evanston -- a cold, very un-holiday place to stay and train while other college swim teams trek off to Hawaii or Florida. But even though Chicago was particularly cold, we all embraced and (somewhat) enjoyed it. The campus was deserted, and with snow and cold, it made for a very “Rocky” esque training atmosphere. We had no other obligations other than to eat, sleep, play video games, and of course, swim.
Those two weeks, I trained the best I had ever trained. And it wasn't because of the training.
