Swimcation 2024
Our annual Multisport Mastery + JHC Coaching Swimcation is complete! This year, 16 swimmers joined coaches @liz.waterstraat @jhctriathlon and @pushglidekick for 4 days of fun, sun, and swim in Naples, Florida.
A few lessons from the pool deck ➡️
🧘🏻♀️ The mindset you bring to the pool is as important as the workout you bring. Arriving with an open mind and engagement in the process will bring more progress than forcing it or analyzing every rep.
😮💨 It all starts with breathing. Errors in your stroke are generally tied to a problem with how you breathe. Learn to exhale underwater and master efficient breathing.
🙂↔️ No one gets faster by looking at their watch every 50. Swimming is a long game and can take years of consistency and frequent water touches to make progress.
🏊🏻♀️ If you want to get faster at swimming, swim frequently. Touch the water 3 times a week every week of the year. Frequency tends to lead to aha moments where things click or you finally feel the water.
🛝 Don’t underestimate the power of play. Swimming is a motor problem to solve; need to understand how your body moves through the water. Put on fins, underwater kick, try different strokes or scull - all of this adds up to understanding movement and flow.
😎 Relax to swim well. While more effort yields stronger biking or faster running, swimming is the opposite. Often relaxing into your stroke and being mindful about the process improves connection to the water versus trying to apply more force and effort.
🍫 Fuel your swims like any other workout! Bring hydration with electrolytes and consider taking in some carbs. We do this to have better quality training and recovery and so we can wake up the next day and quality train again.
🐠 Just keep swimming! There’s a belief that you should stop swimming when you form breaks down. Understand that swimming is what makes you better at swimming. Ingrain good form habits for as long as you can, but more swimming can also be really helpful to break through these form breakdowns.
We will be exploring a new destination for 2025. We hope you will consider joining us! ☀️🏊🏻♀️☀️🏊🏻♂️