Category: Psychology
-
Mental Toughness Tips for Swimmers
Guest post by Chelsea Watterston / Premier Pools The term ‘mental toughness’ refers to the resolve not to quit. Specifically, it’s the mental force that helps you stay on track and focus on maintaining perfect form even when your lungs and muscles are about to give up on you. This is what certain sports fans…
-
-
How to Turn Anxiety Into Excitement
Trying to calm down during a bout of anxiety is likely futile. Instead, try saying: “I am excited.†Because anxiety and excitement are both arousal emotions and have similar symptoms, it’s easier to get from one to the other than to completely shift gears into calmness. In this short video, staff writer Olga Khazan explores…
-
Therapy Dogs At Olympic Swimming Trials In Nebraska Sound Like The Best Way To Calm Your Nerves Ever
At last week’s Olympic swimming trials, spectators got to see the very best American swimmers compete to attend the 2016 Olympics. What they may not have known is that behind the scenes were creatures not often see poolside: Dogs. USA Swimming welcomed 30 therapy dogs at the Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska, to help…
-
Comfort dogs help ease the stress of Olympic swim trial competition
As exciting as the swim trials can be for fans, it can also be an extremely stressful time for the competitors themselves.
-
Andrew Lum on what he learned as a college athlete
Andrew Lum, a swimmer at Willamette University, discusses the life lessons he learned as a college athlete.
-
Ryan Cochrane: Courage comes in many forms
Canadian Olympic swimmer Ryan Cochrane checks in after a recent trip to Australia to talk about this month’s lesson on courage. Ryan highlights that being courageous comes in many different forms, from dealing with life change to standing up to somebody who is bullying. The key Ryan says, is to always believe in yourself and…
-
Olympic swimmer Leisel Jones’s dive into depression
Leisel Jones thought she had it all after snaring gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. What followed was an unexpected bout of depression – leading to her darkest moment of all. […] I lie in bed at night wondering what’s wrong with me. You’ve done it, I tell myself. You’ve won the gold! Achieved your…
-
Canton’s Allison Schmitt speaks candidly about post-Olympic depression
Michigan’s own Allison Schmitt is known as the swimmer with a smile, the happy one by the pool. The Olympic freestyler will tell you now that the smile was real, but she was also secretly struggling. Schmitt won five Olympic medals during the 2012 summer games in London. Three were gold medals in the 200-meter freestyle race,…