Hard Rock Part 3

The Rock is won or lost in one’s head. Apart from swim training and gym, what goes on in my head is just as important. Why is it that some people can withstand extreme cold water whilst others can become hypothermic in relatively warm water? Alex Hutchinson hits the mark:

your subjective sense of effort, rather than the metabolic state of your muscles, is the final arbiter of your limits. When you feel that it’s impossible to continue, it is. Anything that changes your sense of effort alters your limits.

I consciously started to replace discouraging thoughts such as:  it’s hard or it’s difficult with ‘what needs to be done’. It had less to do with creating positive thoughts but more to do with removing the negative ones.