Welcome to Week 1: Establishing Foundations and Adaptations.
If you are here is because you have accepted the challenge, and I couldn’t be more proud of you!
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Here are your Week 1 working sets. A couple of critical things:
Please commit to the FAST sets. It is critical for your brain and muscles to differentiate when you are demanding to go fast and when it is time to rest.
One of the harder parts of swimming long sets, like 1000 yards or more is your mind constantly trying to jeopardize the effort.
Contrary to common belief, the answer is not to yell back at yourself “STOP THINKING THIS WAY YOU WEAK LITTLE PIECE OF…” NO!!! Don’t do that!
Instead, focus fully on your breathing or even how the water feels while swimming, and when those thoughts come to mind, just sit them in the back of your brain, yes there is a bench there, can you see it? The red bench? Do you see it now?… Great! Park the thought there and bring the focus back on the breathing or water sensation while pulling".
OK, Let’s Swim!
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