Living a Balanced Swim Life
Love your swimming, but remember you’re not just a swimmer. You’re a valuable, amazing human being that does swimming. It’s only part of your life.
Getting Mentally Prepared for Championship Meets
Championship Meets are the most important meets of any season, and getting yourself into the right frame of mind going into them is absolutely crucial to performing your best.
3 Mental Tips for Future College Swimmers
In this video, I want to share with you 3 mental tips and pieces of advice for those of you who plan on swimming in college in the future that will allow you to go into your first year as a college swimmer with the right mindset and mentality so that you can succeed there and be your best.
The Five Performance Priorities
To help my swimmers create a strong, positive, efficient, high-performance mindset, I have them utilize what I like to call The Five Performance Priorities.
How to Overcome Your Nerves on Meet Day
With this article, I’m going to share with you 3 concepts you can use to help you, not just cope with nerves, but completely overcome them so that all of your talent, skill, and physical capabilities can be utilized to their maximum when you go to race.
A Look Inside the Mind of an Olympic Champion
Its fine to strive for perfection in swimming, but only as long as it’s done with the understanding that you can never get there. All you can ever ask of yourself is to give it your best shot, leave it all in the pool, and try to be the best version of yourself that you can be on that day.
3 Mental Tips for Having a Great Practice
As a swimmer, you train and practice much more than you actually compete, so being able to get yourself into the right frame of mind and get the most out of yourself in a practice is key.
NCAA Swimmers: How to Mentally Approach the Upcoming Season
I’ve spent the past several years working with NCAA D1 swim programs, first at Florida Gulf Coast University and now…
How to Bounce Back When You Fail
Success in swimming isn’t accomplished with the battles you win inside the pool. Success in swimming is accomplished with the battles you win outside the pool; how you emotionally cope with big races, how you handle the challenges and obstacles of competitive swimming, and most importantly, how you mentally respond to the failures that you experience.
Getting Focused on the Process with Florida State Swimming
Hey folks! I just got back from Clearwater, FL where I spent the past 4 days working on location with…
Letting Go of Expectations
Is it better to go into a meet expecting certain results or not expecting certain results? Is it beneficial to approach competition expecting yourself to achieve a specific outcome or to let go of expectations altogether?
How to Find the Motivation to Train When You Really Don’t Want To
Here are some things that you can do to delve deep within yourself and find the motivation to keep going even when you feel like backing out.
5 Ways Swim Coaches Can Get the Best Out of Their Swimmers
The true art of great coaching is being able to, not only develop your swimmers physically, but to also develop them mentally; to understand what makes each of your swimmers tick and how you need to interact with them in order to get the best out of them.
How to Not Let Expectations Crush You
In this video, I talk about the ways which you can best approach handling expectations so that they don’t crush down on you and negatively affect your ability to perform in the pool.
How to Mentally Cope with Races You Fear
There’s no shame or weakness in admitting you fear a particular race. Utilizing ways of coping with races you fear so that you can mitigate that fear and be your best is absolutely essential.
