This morning’s online Telegraph ran with comments from US Swimmer Ryan Lochte that Team GB’s swimmers were “too individually focused” and that they should have hidden their disappointment for the sake of the team (thanks to @pullbuoy for pointing it out). Apparently, Nick Gillingham, a former Olympic medallist for Great Britain said otherwise, that Team [...]
Managing Pressure
April 7, 2012 by 2 Comments
All of us experience pressure from time to time, and often it’s no bad thing. Pressure can help focus the mind and, at healthy levels, can help us to perform. Many people, however, experience unpleasant levels of pressure and find that their performance suffers as a result. So, how can you go about ensuring that [...]
How to Make Swim Training Less Boring
March 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
OK, so the title of this post suggests that training is actually boring. That doesn’t mean that it is for me or it should be for you, but training can get to be repetitive and we’ve all probably found it hard to get excited about 8x400s at some point in our lives. There are two basic [...]
What’s the Ideal Level of Arousal for Swimming Performance?
January 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s long been believed that there’s an ideal level of physiological arousal for performance (the ‘Inverted U’ Hypothesis), and more recently that each individual has their own level (e.g. IZOF). However, even the view that each person has their own ideal level of arousal is simplistic. Whatever your level of physiological arousal, this can be [...]
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