Swimming

Its All In Your Head Making the Decision to Win or Lose

By Cody Evans, Swimming World College Intern

The science behind swimming is more intricate than I initially would have thought. Each stroke must be done with extreme precision. Aside from the focus every swimmer puts on their stroke technique, swimmers are challenged due to the mental toughness required to perform well.

For many of us, the biggest difficulty in the pool is getting our minds to forget about how tired we are our how much pain we are putting ourselves through. Studies show that fatigue is just an emotion. Fatigue is a sensation that our body feels to prevent ourselves from getting to a level at which we are actually hurting our bodies.

I read an article written by Timothy David Noakes, who is in the research unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the University of Cape Town. The article was written with track runners in mind, but the two sports are so similar that I thought the conclusions reached in the article would fit very well with the physical demands and performance of swimmers as well.

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