How Do You Know You’ve Made An Improvement? 

How Do You Know You’ve Made An Improvement? 

by | 4 Jun, 2023

How do you know you’ve made an improvement from one practice session to another?  By measuring failure, or rather, by measuring its reduction from one session to the next. If you repeat a challenging practice set and have measured what, when, where, and how and...
How Well Are You Benefiting From Your Training Failures?

How Well Are You Benefiting From Your Training Failures?

by | 28 May, 2023

In many settings in our culture, ‘failure’ is a personally-negative word, with unpleasant psychological or social implications. But in engineering, and in particular, in research and design, failure is an important, impersonal, and even positive output of...
When You Go Harder But You Can’t Go Any Faster…

When You Go Harder But You Can’t Go Any Faster…

by | 11 Mar, 2023

The traditional approach to swimming faster is to just go harder and keep at it until something breaks through.  For some, that simple instruction might work. But for far too many it hasn’t.  Regardless of what approach you take to developing technique or...
If You Are Not Getting Stronger or Faster…

If You Are Not Getting Stronger or Faster…

by | 18 Feb, 2023

You’ve been training faithfully, doing the best you know how to do. But you are not making progress anymore. What might be going on?  Training involves these three variables… What kind of work you do = the kind of activity and what aspects of the...
How Can You Improve By Not Trying To?

How Can You Improve By Not Trying To?

by | 16 Jan, 2021

For many in our culture, probably the most challenging attitude to develop in mindfulness is ‘non-striving’. It is certainly counter-intuitive in nearly every context we face.  In mindfulness meditation, non-striving could be viewed as a skill we develop...
Do Your Intentions For Swimming Matter?

Do Your Intentions For Swimming Matter?

by | 6 Dec, 2020

What Is Intention? Your intention is another word for your sense of purpose.  While it is not regarded as one of the attitudes I’ve been writing about in this series, intention is regarded as a central component of mindfulness practice, as one part of the triad...
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