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…
1. Never be outworked. Always put in 110% of your effort and you won’t be outworked. Steve Prefontaine said, “I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.” Be willing to give everything that you have while…
1. A winner doesn’t make excuses. It’s easy to find reasons to miss practices and workouts. But you have a winning mentality when you stick to your commitments even when conditions are not ideal. 2. A winner maintains a White Belt Mentality. Winners keep an open mind and learn what you can from anyone you can. They don’t write…
Being too cautious or hesitant. Being better in practice than in an event or meet. Swimming or diving to “not mess up” instead of being aggressive. Poor body language. Undermining your own potential. Low confidence. Very nervous before a meet or your event. Easily distracted while competing. Struggles to bounce back after errors/mistakes. Too critical…
1. Recharge your battery in between events that you compete in. Don’t watch a lot of the other people swim or dive so that you can detach yourself emotionally and mentally while you aren’t competing. Get away from the pool when there is some time to do so. Leave the area and get some fresh air…
If you haven’t seen any of our Toughness Tuesday posts, we like to encourage our social media followers to participate in a Toughness Tuesday challenge each Tuesday. Some of them are sport specific depending on which Mindset profile you are looking at, but some of the challenges are generalized to be applicable for all types…