Life Lessons Learned Through Swimming

Although it’s easy to get caught up in relying on our time improvements to see progress, it’s important that we take a step back and look at the progress swimming has led to outside of the pool as well.

As swimmers, our minds are trained to immediately focus on results. The vision of finishing a race, looking up at the board with your goal time beaming, and feeling the excitement of that moment is what makes us push through tough training sets day after day.

This tunnel-vision focus on times can be all-consuming, making it easy to overlook all of the benefits of being a swimmer that aren’t associated with numbers. Although I’ve heard this speech many times throughout the years, it wasn’t until recently that I was able to fully understand the value in the message.