Everyone has seen swimmers who train well but melt under the pressure of meets, and everyone has seen swimmers who do not train well but who love to race. Personality determines how kids think about racing and how they think when they are racing really matters. For swimmers at this age two are the most important things when it comes to fast and consistent racing: confidence and competitiveness. Swimmers who work hard and smart in training, who are used to setting goals and working to reach them and who are getting better every day will generally be confident in their abilities. To nurture competitiveness, both coaches and swimmers should try to create a love of it and competing in practice. Swimmers should race all the time, and they must learn to take pleasure in the contest.
The following nine rules of racing lead to high performance and coaches should help their swimmers to build the right attitudes every day in practice. Coaches should teach the rules, expect them to be followed by their team, and train the team mentally and physically so that these expectations can be met.
- Win the close races
- Swim fast in the morning races (preliminaries)
- Always swim faster at night (finals)
- Cherish relays and swim even faster
- Improve as the meet progress
- Get tougher for tougher conditions
- Expect to swim fast
- Race hard and finish the job
- Learn from experience
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