Practice

Practice makes perfect. This mantra is repeated by coaches everywhere, in every sport, but what does it actually mean? Well, one of my swim coaches (aka my mother) gave me a very good explanation of what it means and why practice is so important in swimming and in any sport one does. Basically practice is conditioning. Conditioning what you ask? Conditioning your body. You practice to get your body ready so you can perform at optimum efficiency when you compete in a competition. This is especially important in swimming. Yes practice is boring because your swimming in the same six to twelve feet of water for up to 2 hours, and maybe more. But when you think about what your doing, how your utilizing the different muscle and energy systems in your body, you see the purpose of practice. It builds your endurance, it gets your body used to operating at maximum levels for a period of time. Practice is all about your body and preparing your body to do what you want it to do once you enter a competition. So practice does indeed make perfect.

And Luke, you asked me to incorporate you into this blog, and I'm sorry man but I just couldn't do it. I have failed you. For this I apologize.