Mental Toughness Toolbox: Make Your Goals Your Own
Mental Toughness Toolbox: Make Your Goals Your Own
As the new season begins, you want to make sure that you're headed in the right direction! What's the “right” direction?
To answer that, we have to talk about the concept of goals, or exactly why you're swimming.
As you know, competitive swimming is not a sport for the fainthearted! To get good as a swimmer, you have to be willing to sacrifice your time, energy and social life. You have to be willing to physically suffer! As an endurance sport athlete, you have to be willing to consistently move towards the pain and fatigue of oxygen debt in order to improve. This means that when the going gets rough, you have to get in the habit of moving yourself towards this physical and emotional discomfort. This is not an easy thing to do given that most of your non-swimming peers organize their lives around avoiding discomfort!
