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amyro1234

2008-12-23 11:32 AM

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Subject: The Winter Swim Challenge

This challenge is all about seeing what you are capable of in the water. Wheter you want to swim faster in open water or faster in the pool, this challenge is for you.

The idea is to set aside a period of time to do everything possible in order to improve your swimming. This challenge will run from Jan. 1 through the the first week of March (March 8). You pick one specific event you would like to improve, such as your sprint-distance open water swim or your 1000 yard time trial. I am picking the 1650 freestyle event to improve at. You can choose whatever type of swimming event you want. Keep in mind though, that no matter what event you pick, all your swim times will impove.

I found the idea for this challenge off of another website, which explains this challenge a lot better than I ever can. I copied and pasted the challenge idea here (and changed a few things), but you can see the original source here:
http://www.usms.org/forums/showthread.php?t=4229&page=10

The challenge:
Your potential to swim faster could astound you.
Your potential is what you are really capable of.
Most of us wind up settling for far less than what we could have been.

What would happen if you chose one event and
perfectly prepared for it?

What if you did every thing right?

What if you prepared for that swim as perfectly as you possibly
could?

What if you:

+ Got a great coach

+ Got in a great program

+ Stayed healthy and injury free

+ Perfected your body and weighed your ideal weight

+ Ate a healthy diet and drank plenty of water

+ Improved your strength and conditioning

+ Trained in the pool 6 days a week,
harder, faster, and further than ever before.
What if you perfectly split each fast swim in practice?
What if you pushed yourself to your true limits rather than what you think you're capable of?

+ Got plenty of sleep each night and woke up rested and ready to train

+ Perfected your stroke technique

+ Perfectly planned your season, when to train, when to taper

+ Mastered the mental aspects
Goals, Plans, Action, motivation, ideal performance state, self
image, acting as if, handling fatigue and pain, are a few

+ Always got to practice on time and never missed a practice?

+ Had good luck in your final race, where the little things fell in
your favor?
Like a fast start, hit all your turns, perfectly split your race

+ what else? What's missing from this list?

What if you did every aspect of your preparation for your event as perfectly as possible?

I say you would be astounded by how much you improved
Your time in your event would prove your improvement.

But the reality is, we fall far from perfection,
things go wrong all the time

I encourage you to strive for perfection and do the best you can.
Here is the simple truth.

How well you PERFORM depends upon
how well you PREPARE.

Try perfect preparation for a day, then a week, then try a month.
Then try it for the length of this challenge and reap the results.
I hope you astound yourself.

Here's what you need to do:

1) Test yourself in that event before you begin the challenge
What time did you swim it in?
How did you split it?
How did it feel?

2) Set a goal, write a plan and follow it each day.
Perfectly prepare for the length of this challenge.

3) At the end of this challenge
Test yourself again.
What's your time?
How did you split it?
How much did you improve?
How did it feel?

Edited by amyro1234 2008-12-23 11:33 AM

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