The Beginners Guidebook to Mental Toughness for Swimmers


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The Beginners Guidebook to Mental Toughness for Swimmers will teach you how meditation can make you mentally tougher even in the most challenging conditions. Stimulating the mind will stimulate the body to overcome what was once thought of as impossible and will help you surpass limits you never imagined. Mental road blocks and past mental failures affect what you think you can accomplish but that can be corrected through meditation so that the past stays in the past and you can finally move forward in achieving your goals. Meditation can become the fastest path to mental toughness due to the non-physical skills you will develop and improve. It will teach you to strengthen the mind and sharpen your concentration for longer periods of time. Give yourself the opportunity to become better in every way imaginable and reach for the top! What is meditation? Meditation is a state of mind where you are thinking about something in a calm and relaxed manner. Normally, you are achieving a much higher state of focus. How will you benefit from meditating? Meditation will take you to the next level mentally, physically, and emotionally. You can expect to feel more prepared, relaxed, and focused than ever before after meditating. Remember, the body can only do what the mind thinks it can do. What Improvements can I expect from practicing meditation? Some of the improvements you can expect are: fewer or no headaches at all, improved digestion, more energy during the day, less muscle cramps or signs of muscle tightness, increased capacity to concentrate over long periods of time. Does my nutrition affect my meditative potential and is a nutrition plan included? Yes, nutrition is a major component in becoming mentally tougher. When you have the energy and mental balance needed, you can perform at your optimal mental capacity and this means eating and staying hydrated. Feeling tired, anxious, drowsy, or sleepy will not allow you to focus and perform properly. A meal calendar is included as well as recipes you can use to maximize your meditation sessions and have an organized nutrition.




Gold Medal Mental Toughness Success Guide For Swimmers


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Welcome to the Gold Medal Mental Toughness program! I am so excited that you have decided to work on your mental game in your sport. Hopefully, you already know that there are three very important areas in your sport for overall success: physical training, technical training (attention to how efficiently you perform), and mental training (how confident and mentally prepared you are in your mind). I have spent many years helping people with their mental game in different areas of their lives. It is very exciting to see the amazing changes they can make. The self directed version of the success guide will enable you to make the changes that you want and need in order to better enjoy your overall experience. The 1st edition of the success guide was designed to be used by my clients in conjunction with their sessions and audios. This edition has been redesigned to enable any swimmer to benefit from reading and applying the techniques, regardless of whether you have a mental coach. All you need is an optimistic and willing attitude that enables you to try something new. Read the guide carefully, have an open mind, and do each of the exercises consistently. You will begin to see changes in your mental toughness and progress in your sport as a result of your mental training. Helping competitive swimmers enhance their mental toughness and improve their performances has been one of the greatest passions of my life. I have worked with athletes of all ages from age group swimmers to Olympians and professionals. Translating how I help athletes into a self- directed book was challenging. However, this guide will help you create mental toughness and enhance your performance. While the guide is available as a standalone product, it is my belief that in order for you to obtain maximum benefit you may wish to use some of the additional resources contained in the book. By purchasing this book you are indicating that you are ready to join the elite swimmers who understand that mental toughness training is just as important as physical and technical training. Read on and enjoy great swimming.




SwimEQ - Emotional Intelligence for Triathletes and Swimmers


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Does the thought of swimming in open water make you nervous? Do you get anxious on race day? Do you find it difficult to find the same mental clarity in the open water that you have in the pool?The key to successful swimming in pool, open water and racing environments is mental strength. SwimEQ provides you with logical and sequential tools to maximize your emotional intelligence, strengthening the pathway between feeling and performance.Read SwimEQ to raise your emotional intelligence and to train, race and perform with success. In this book you will find: Why you feel emotional fluctuations such as stress, fear or anxiety and what is happening to your body How to assess your EQ at any time How to manage your emotions to be in the optimal mental state to learn, race and perform your best How to apply SwimEQ to your training and racing 12 week SwimEQ training plan to build mental strength and swim skills How to manage emotions in the lead up to a race




The Swimmer's Mind: Mastering the Mental Side of Swimming


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You're in the pursuit of excellence and success as a swimmer. At the end of the day, it's not physical talent, physical skill, or physical ability that's going to make the difference. What makes the difference is mindset, mentality, and attitude. What separates good swimmers from great swimmers is the mental side of the sport. This book is designed to help swimmers such as yourself to develop the mental strength and emotional resilience necessary to think strong, feel confident, swim fast, and be your best. To do that, The Swimmer's Mind contains 320 pages of the same strategies and methodologies I use when working with my individual clients and NCAA D1 Nationally-Ranked Swim Programs which have produced proven results and success at the Age-Group, National, NCAA, and International level. Readers will learn how to master the core aspects of the mental side of swimming such as how to be confident, how to eliminate nerves, how to create a strong racing mindset, and much, much more. If you're only focused on the physical side of the sport and not currently working to improve your mind for swimming, then you're neglecting the most important tool you have as a swimmer.




Mind Training For Swimmers


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"Mind Training For Swimmers" is truly everything you ever could want to know about positive thinking and how to improve your swim or sport performance. Written by Craig Townsend, Australia's Swim Guru, it is filled with examples and teaching points that are sound, thorough, and based upon solid scientific thinking. The author is the Director of It's Mind over Matter in Sydney, Australia; and he has worked in the area of mental training for swimming, sports and personal development for over fifteen years! He possesses a Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis, and for over twenty years he has researched and experimented with various methods of tapping the potential of the human mind. His program has received world recognition, and has now been put into book form. Bellissima Publishing, LLC is proud to have Craig Townsend among its writers. This is a must read book that should be required reading for every swim coach and swimmer! It is a book that can help anyone move towards positive thinking and self-recognition.




8 Weeks to SEALFIT


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A workout book with techniques used by Navy SEALs combined with Cross Fit by a well known Navy SEAL fitness instructor




Championship Swimming


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From an Olympic medalist, a proven, step-by-step program for helping you swim your best Endorsed by Olympic gold medalist Jenny Thompson and written by two-time Olympic winner Tracey McFarlane-Mirande, Championship Swimming brings Olympic-level techniques and training to intermediate swimmers who want to achieve their best. With her proven program, McFarlane-Mirande takes you from 0 to 60 in just 30 days. This comprehensive manual features: Step-by-step drills for improved strokes and more enjoyable workouts Tips on how to eliminate "drag" Techniques for swimming more powerfully with less effort Dry-land exercises Easy-to-follow illustrations From intermediate to competitive swimming, Championship Swimming is sure to improve the quality of every swim, whether for leisure, exercise, or going for the gold.




The Swimmer's Workout Handbook


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100 of the best swim workouts for all experience levels: fitness, Masters level, or competition. Easy-to-follow pool workouts designed to make you a stronger, faster, and more proficient swimmer. The Swimmer’s Workout Handbook is a complete guide to escaping the routine of pool swimming with varied training workouts to keep you challenged and engaged, and improve your performance. Expert and multi-sport coach Terri Schneider combines skill training with variations in speed, distance, and technique for an effective and easy-to-follow series of pool workouts designed to make you a stronger, faster, and more proficient swimmer. The Swimmer’s Workout Handbook includes: · 100 swim workouts for all experience levels · Expert-designed pool workouts · A guide to common swim terms used in the workouts · Information on gear and guidelines to get the most out of your workouts Swimming improves core, muscular, and cardiovascular strength and endurance, all in a low-impact, gravity-free workout. If done two to several times per week, or as an addition to a multi-sport training regime, swimming helps maintain a healthy weight, heart, and lungs. These benefits are best realized within the diversity of your workouts. To increase your swim fitness it is optimal to vary intensity, interval distances, recovery, and strokes, all within one workout session. The diversity within a workout is what triggers the body to grow stronger, faster, and more proficient. Whether you only have time to swim 1000 meters/yards, or are up for 5000 at each session, The Swimmer’s Workout Handbook organizes speed, distance, and technique into these 100 fun and challenging training sessions—putting vitality back into your pool time.




The Champion Mindset


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An in-depth mental motivational book for all athletes from Olympian Dr. Joanna Zeiger that offers game-changing strategies for programming your brain to achieve physical excellence. Champions, as the familiar adage preaches, are not born—they're made. Reaching the top of any sport, or any aspect of life, takes years upon years of dedication and proper preparation. But if there's a huge pool of individuals who have undertaken the same commitment and steps towards becoming the best, what truly separates the winners from everyone else? Joanna Zeiger believes proper mental preparation is the answer. The Champion Mindset is a much-needed and long overdue look into how to program a competitor's mind to achieve optimal success. Changing behaviors and ways of thinking are never easy, but the chapters in this book aim to simplify this process to make it manageable and achievable. This book is for every athlete—from the weekend warrior, who wants to complete in his or her first 5k running race, to those who have aspirations of one day becoming Olympians and world champions. The Champion Mindset is a compendium of Zeiger's own personal journey from struggling novice swimmer to Olympian and World Champion. Through steps including: Proper Goal Setting, Keeping it Fun, Building Your Team, Intention in Training, Improving Motivation, Promoting Self-Confidence, and Mind/Body Cohesion, among others, Zeiger uses her decades of personal experience, doctoral-level research, and professional success, to prepare readers to go all-in with their mental game.




Progressive Mental Toughness Training for Swimming


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Progressive Mental Toughness Training for Swimming will significantly change how hard you can push yourself mentally and emotionally through visualization techniques taught in this book. Want to be the best? To be the best you have to train physically and mentally to your maximum capacity. Visualizing is commonly thought of as an activity that cannot be quantified which makes it harder to see if you are improving or making a difference, but in reality visualizing will increase your chances of success much more than any other activity. You will learn three visualization techniques that are proven to improve your performance under any situation. These are: 1.Motivational Visualization Techniques. 2.Problem Solving Visualization Techniques 3.Goal Oriented Visualization Techniques. These swimming visualization techniques will help you: -Win more often. -Become mentally tougher. -Outlast the competition. -Get to the next level. -Recover faster and train longer. How is this possible? Visualizing will help you to better control your emotions, stress, anxiety, and performance under pressure situations that are often the difference between success and failure. Bringing out the best in yourself in any sport and reaching your true potential can only happen through a balanced training regimen which should include: mental training, physical training, and proper nutrition. Why aren't more people using visualizations to enhance their performance in swimming? There are a number of reasons but the truth is most people have never tried it before and are afraid to try something new. Others don't think that improving their mental capacity will make a difference but they are wrong.