jimmy77
07-01-2001, 08:25 PM
Take it from someone who knows!
When swimmers get out it annoys a coach. I used to be a swimmer and always got out. I 'was' talented but couldn't hack the training and so the easiest thing for me was to get out. There is a lot of psychology behind these decisions and it is up to you to sort them out.
Them problem is that a coach will get frustrated (as i have done with many of my swimmers on many occasions!) when they get out. It is not that they are just yelling at you because you may be upsetting the session (which is a fair enough point sometimes) but yelling at you because they know the potential you have.
Take a look at it this way. All very hypothetical but i think that it makes a point!! you start the season with a bucket full of sweets which can only be eaten at the end of the season. only you can't wait and you start taking little nibbles of them all through the season and so when you are at the end of it there isn't nearly the reward you were waiting for.
What i am trying to say is that everytime you get out of the water that end goal that you may have been searching for is getting further and further away from you. Perhaps you will never be as good as you should have been and this is what your coach is getting mad at you about.
Swimming is a hard demanding sport and so you should understand this and so put in 100% all the time and not just when you feel like it. I learnt the hard way and never realised the potential i had - all my own fault!!
Don't spite your coach just because he yells at you.........take a long hard look at yourself and realise the way you get a coachs respect is by working hard.
Comments welcome
JD
When swimmers get out it annoys a coach. I used to be a swimmer and always got out. I 'was' talented but couldn't hack the training and so the easiest thing for me was to get out. There is a lot of psychology behind these decisions and it is up to you to sort them out.
Them problem is that a coach will get frustrated (as i have done with many of my swimmers on many occasions!) when they get out. It is not that they are just yelling at you because you may be upsetting the session (which is a fair enough point sometimes) but yelling at you because they know the potential you have.
Take a look at it this way. All very hypothetical but i think that it makes a point!! you start the season with a bucket full of sweets which can only be eaten at the end of the season. only you can't wait and you start taking little nibbles of them all through the season and so when you are at the end of it there isn't nearly the reward you were waiting for.
What i am trying to say is that everytime you get out of the water that end goal that you may have been searching for is getting further and further away from you. Perhaps you will never be as good as you should have been and this is what your coach is getting mad at you about.
Swimming is a hard demanding sport and so you should understand this and so put in 100% all the time and not just when you feel like it. I learnt the hard way and never realised the potential i had - all my own fault!!
Don't spite your coach just because he yells at you.........take a long hard look at yourself and realise the way you get a coachs respect is by working hard.
Comments welcome
JD