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Developing proper training habits is more important than setting goals
For youngsters, goal setting is not the Holy Grail that many make it out to be. More important to athletic success is forming proper habits.One of the most unintentionally funny comments I ever heard from an athlete occurred at the end of a long training set. Breathing heavily, one of my swimmers quipped, "Wow, if I didn't know how to swim, this set would be really hard." It took a beat or two before she realized what she said but by that time her teammates were already howling. Her comment is a good introduction for this article: Obviously knowing how to swim is a prerequisite to performing any kind of swimming workout, just like developing good training habits comes before goal setting can be effective. READ THE FULL ARTICLE....