Boxes
Get out of the box!
“What box?” you ask…
That chair.
Your couch.
Get up from your table.
Out of your room/box.
Your house/box.
Your car/box.
The pool/box.
Your routine/box.
Shake it up!
Do something different. And look around you.
Get out of the box!
“What box?” you ask…
That chair.
Your couch.
Get up from your table.
Out of your room/box.
Your house/box.
Your car/box.
The pool/box.
Your routine/box.
Shake it up!
Do something different. And look around you.
I’ve been working on my in-water posture for more than a year. For in-water posture, I practice what I call Neutral position: long neck, tummy tight, low back flat, arms over head with shoulders back and down – I try to spend some amount of time in this position every time I’m in the water….
What would it take to turn mindless repetitions into mindful repetitions? How can you make each stroke count? What if less really is more?
Add curiosity to your practice. What if I breathe to the other side? What if I push off on the other side? Why are we doing this set? What is the goal? Am I propelling myself forward in every stroke? Or am I going side to side? Or up and down? What is the purpose…
Make a point to begin again. There is no going back—just like we can’t go back in time—only forward. Sometimes in learning it feels like one step forward, two steps back. But the truth is that we can never have the same experience twice. Make it a deliberate practice. Take the opportunity to review what…
In 2017 I swam the 20 km Mercer Island Marathon Swim, around Mercer Island near Seattle, Washington. I was fortunate to have a kayaker assigned to me. She was supportive, enthusiastic, motivational – everything you want your support kayaker to be – and she had a GoPro. I had not yet embraced the GoPro world….
I’m not going to tell you how to workout during isolation. I’m not even going to suggest that you have to! What I am going to tell you is that it’s going to be okay. Even when you could, you didn’t have to swim everyday. You didn’t even have to swim more than a few…