Your Endurance Lifestyle. Redesigned.

Complexity is easy, striving for the simple is what is truly hard.

In this day and age of email overloaded, instant messaging multitasking madness, making things harder than they need to be is actually easier than it looks. Get it? Take swimming technique, where I have been spending some time lately because of some clinics I am doing (and trying to get my landlubber self into a respectable form of swim shape pre IMCDA 2008).

There are countless things to do with your stroke: hand pitch, kick, hip rotation, breathing, finishing, catch (oh yeah), and so on. And they all build upon the other, in a fluid circle of motion, coordination, and hopefully, forward progress.    But with so much to focus on, it becomes harder to do. And the harder it is to do, the easier it is to just accept not being good at what you are doing.

The truly hard thing to do is to break your stroke down and spend a few swim sessions testing out different drills until you get that “ah ha” moment. Then focusing on that drill, that moment, in an attempt to recreate it as much as possible. The more you can do this, the more likely you will be able to incorporate that new element into your stroke.

Capturing the ah-ha moment isn’t tough, it’s having the patience, discipline, and focus to strive for it again and again…instead of just zoning out for another 45′ swim workout.

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What’s your secret for tuning into the details of your workouts?

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