Are you going to quit and be a bum the rest of your life? Or are you going to fight?!

Life is full of shit, even in the clouds. You have to do something to make yourself and everyone around you proud. Confidence is fleeting unless you have contiuous persistent ACTION to back it up! This goes for nutrition, traing, the job you want (or have), the material or imaterial thing you are after. It's all about going at it!

When I entered the Great Swim and began my mile, I was no where near as prepared as I wanted to be, mainly due to financial circumstances, but I DID IT ANYWAY! I never backed down, I never doubted my own ability either, why? Because in this particular instance I knew I was a strong competent swimmer in the water - I was prepared mentally! In fact you can see my results right here:Great Swim Results . I knew I wasn't going to be the number one swimmer that day, but I also knew that I wasn't going to come last place either, no, far from it in fact.Consider how many people actually compete!

When I entered the water, firstly, I wasn't shocked at all at how cold it felt on my skin, a lot of people did, but not I. There's a reason for that too - part of my mental preparation and nervous system preparation were taking cold plunges on and off for months, and leading up to the day of the swim, I was taking cold plunges every single day for weeks, I had conditioned my nervous system. Part of the battle for me had a;lready been won well before I entered the water, and this actually follows the principles of SunTzu's book, 'The Art Of War' where he talks in depth, abi=out 'How To Prepare'. This also uses the principles of General Physical Preparedness that was pioneered in the old Soviet Union (1922-1991), and the priniciples in the Russian Conjugate Sequencing System in the 1960's and early 1970's where one achieves sports mastery through physical training, which also teaches your nervous system to adapt; and although I didn't make it to a lot of the training, I trained my nervous system for the cold, and used specificty in my training to compensate for when I couldn't get in the pool.

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Thanks for reading!

Brad

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