How to Develop Next Level Resilience in the Pool

by Olivier Poirier-Leroy. Join his weekly motivational newsletter for competitive swimmers by clicking here.

ABOUT OLIVIER POIRIER-LEROY

Olivier Poirier-Leroy is a former national level swimmer. He’s the publisher of YourSwimBook, a ten-month log book for competitive swimmers.

Conquer the Pool Mental Training Book for SwimmersHe’s also the author of the recently published mental training workbook for competitive swimmers, Conquer the Pool: The Swimmer’s Ultimate Guide to a High Performance Mindset.

It combines sport psychology research, worksheets, and anecdotes and examples of Olympians past and present to give swimmers everything they need to conquer the mental side of the sport.

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splash and dash
6 years ago

Maybe phelps unique metabolism, which doesn’t produce as much lactic acid as other athletes helped.

Coach John
Reply to  splash and dash
6 years ago

everyone knows that here are a multitude of individualistic variables to a performance… try to see the trees from the forest.

pvdh
Reply to  splash and dash
6 years ago

lactic acid buildup is not the cause of fatigue

Splash and Dash
Reply to  splash and dash
6 years ago

Okay. This is for all of you haters that don’t like my post. Athletes like Phelps are born, not made. He worked incredibly hard to get what he attained, but his body’s ability to shuttle lactic acid (containing the hydrogen ion which inhibits the movement of the muscle) out of his myocytes (muscle cells) and back to his liver is a HUGE factor in his success.
This PREDISPOSITION allowed him to train better and to race better than your average swimmer.
KSWIMS, I recommend that you self-regulate yourself and your anger and seek help.

Tim
6 years ago

I have to say that given the sledging before that 100m Fly, Cavic offering to buy Phelps a new suit, and the clash of heads mentioned above (which was mentioned on TV on the day as well) it is the most impressive under pressure swim I have ever seen. It is also the most exciting swim I have watched “live”. So hard to watch swims live due to time zones and broadcasting restrictions.

Also my own experience is that using setbacks for motivation and using anger to increase aggression for swimming does work.

Bigboi1007
6 years ago

Hmmmm…

About Olivier Poirier-Leroy

Olivier Poirier-Leroy

Olivier Poirier-Leroy is a former national-level swimmer, swim coach, and best-selling author. His writing has been featured on USA Swimming, US Masters Swimming, NBC Sports Universal, the Olympic Channel, and much more. He has been involved in competitive swimming for most of his life. Starting off at the age of 6 …

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