Presence
Right here. Right now.
I have to remind myself often—to be right here, right now.
It’s easy to get caught up in what happened. Or what’s next. But it pays to be present – especially in each practice.
Right here. Right now.
I have to remind myself often—to be right here, right now.
It’s easy to get caught up in what happened. Or what’s next. But it pays to be present – especially in each practice.
I remember thinking that I knew pretty much everything I needed to know about coaching swimming (or that I could look up anything that I didn’t know)—and then strutting into Fundamental Skills Coach Training only to realize that there was a whole body of knowledge that I had not previously considered (that I wouldn’t have…
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…
Last time we talked about Posture, for part two of our four part series on efficient swimming basics, enter: The Pull In the pull, our goal is to push the water behind us; as much as you can, as soon as you can. It’s that simple. Start floating face down in the water in neutral…
The other day I was at one of our beautiful mountain lakes in the Cascade range of Southern Oregon. Towering over the water with remnants of winter spotting it’s back, the view of nearby volcano, Mount McLoughlin, takes my breath away. I welcome the crisp, clear water here at Lake of the Woods, a natural…
Try it. For each action, you have to create an equal and opposite reaction. There are many lessons to be learned. I cannot promise that it will improve your swimming. However, it is an awesome experiment.
I don’t like to call it work because I love it. Just because I love it doesn’t mean it’s easy to get in the water and practice. But I get in the water to practice because there is work to be done.