Confidence Builders for Swimmers
1. Train your hardest on sets that you find the most challenging. Many swimmers tend to train their hardest on the easy sets and their easiest on
the most challenging sets. Do not fall into this trap. The more you challenge yourself the more confidence you will gain.
2. Whenever someone pays you a compliment accept it, do not reject it or let it "go in one ear and out the other." A compliment is a sign that you have done something very special and distinguished yourself. Making the most of the moment will give your confidence a boost.
3. Improve your fitness level. The more fit you feel the more confidence you will feel.
4. Erase confidence destroying words from your vocabulary, words like can't, won't and never.
5. Relive confidence building memories from the past. Believe it or not the more you relive them the more your confidence will grow.
6. Use visualization to build confidence. Visualization is when you picture positive things in your mind about yourself. They do not have to be positive things you already do, they can be positivethings that you want to do. The beauty about visualization is that your mind can be trained to believe whatever it is you want it to believe.
7. Get out of the habit of comparing yourself to others. Comparing yourself to others can endup making you feel less confident about yourself.
8. Set daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals in your swimming and your personal life.
9. Work your way into a faster lane. Training in a faster lane will force you to work harder and the harder you work the more confidence you will gain.
10. Become the leader of your lane by working hard. This may take some time, but it will be time well spent. Becoming the leader in your lane will give your confidence a tremendous boost.
11. Instead of thinking about practice as a time to train think of it as a time to race. Racing will bring out the best in you and as a result you will gain some extra confidence.
12. Never back down from a challenging set even if the set scares you. Try your hardest for as long as you can. By not backing down you will gain confidence.
13. Never save yourself in practice. Saving yourself means that you try, but you do not try your hardest. It is very important that you understand that trying your hardest from the start of a set is the absolute best way to improve your physical fitness, your mental toughness and your confidence.
14. Become more of a racer in swim meets. Go out faster and race tougher. Taking chances is one of the best ways to build the confidence you lack.
15. Face up to whatever event you fear the most. Even though your first thought might be to avoid it at all costs, you need to be brave and swim the race. Being brave does not mean that you do not feel fear. It means you feel fear but you swim the event anyway. Facing up to what you fear the most is one of the best ,ways to gain confidence.
the most challenging sets. Do not fall into this trap. The more you challenge yourself the more confidence you will gain.
2. Whenever someone pays you a compliment accept it, do not reject it or let it "go in one ear and out the other." A compliment is a sign that you have done something very special and distinguished yourself. Making the most of the moment will give your confidence a boost.
3. Improve your fitness level. The more fit you feel the more confidence you will feel.
4. Erase confidence destroying words from your vocabulary, words like can't, won't and never.
5. Relive confidence building memories from the past. Believe it or not the more you relive them the more your confidence will grow.
6. Use visualization to build confidence. Visualization is when you picture positive things in your mind about yourself. They do not have to be positive things you already do, they can be positivethings that you want to do. The beauty about visualization is that your mind can be trained to believe whatever it is you want it to believe.
7. Get out of the habit of comparing yourself to others. Comparing yourself to others can endup making you feel less confident about yourself.
8. Set daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals in your swimming and your personal life.
9. Work your way into a faster lane. Training in a faster lane will force you to work harder and the harder you work the more confidence you will gain.
10. Become the leader of your lane by working hard. This may take some time, but it will be time well spent. Becoming the leader in your lane will give your confidence a tremendous boost.
11. Instead of thinking about practice as a time to train think of it as a time to race. Racing will bring out the best in you and as a result you will gain some extra confidence.
12. Never back down from a challenging set even if the set scares you. Try your hardest for as long as you can. By not backing down you will gain confidence.
13. Never save yourself in practice. Saving yourself means that you try, but you do not try your hardest. It is very important that you understand that trying your hardest from the start of a set is the absolute best way to improve your physical fitness, your mental toughness and your confidence.
14. Become more of a racer in swim meets. Go out faster and race tougher. Taking chances is one of the best ways to build the confidence you lack.
15. Face up to whatever event you fear the most. Even though your first thought might be to avoid it at all costs, you need to be brave and swim the race. Being brave does not mean that you do not feel fear. It means you feel fear but you swim the event anyway. Facing up to what you fear the most is one of the best ,ways to gain confidence.