The Short Term Benefits of Working Hard at Practice
The Short Term Benefits of Working Hard at Practice
The long term benefits of training hard in the pool are easy to list off:
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Working hard in the pool means you are better prepared to swim faster when the next big meet comes around.
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Working hard develops a mental toughness that can only be developed through experience and facing adversity.
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Working hard in the pool consistently over stretches of time will make you more fit, more fast and more better looking than the competition.
But in a culture of “I want it right noooow” what are the immediate benefits of hard work?
Why should we commit to having an old-school work ethic if it is, in fact, old school?
Why can’t we just be new school and train “smarter”?
(Hint: it’s because if you want to swim really, really fast you need to train hard and smart. Despite what the interwebs and glossed out advertisements might tell you, there is no outsmarting hard work done intelligently.)
That being said, here are a few of the more immediate upsides you experience when you work your butt off at practice:
