如何持续提高你的游泳水平

1) Your goal in every pool session is to improve your swimming – not to complete a certain number of meters, or raise your heart rate or any of the traditional goals. As I’ve written many times, “My main thought every time I enter the pool is to be a better swimmer when I leave it an hour later.’

每一次游泳的目标不应该是完成多少距离，而是每一次入水都想让我的游泳变得更好

2) Improve by finding and fixing weak points. Those will be more obvious — and easier to fix – in the early stages, and more subtle — and require more patience and more strategic thinking later.

通过寻找和改进不足来不断提高。早期可能比较容易做到，越提高就会越细微，需要更多的耐心和思考

3) Love the ‘plateau.’ This will become more important a few months to a year after you start TI as the improvements take longer to achieve. You’ll spend weeks, and eventually months, practicing without being conscious of any improvement. During these times, maintain faith that change IS taking place — at the level of neurons. After a period of time that change will consolidate and produce a thrilling forward leap.

热爱你的瓶颈期。在你学全浸几个月到一年后，你的进一步提高就需要更长的时间。你可能会花上几个星期甚至几个月却没办法感觉到进步。在这个时候，要坚信改变正在发生---在你的意识层面。等到一定时间那些改变就会给你带来令人激动的进步

4) Become passionately curious. Swimming is the most complex, challenging and non-instinctive of all physical skills. This is because it’s an aquatic skill while humans are terrestrial mammals. If you tirelessly seek to expand your knowledge and understanding, you’ll enjoy swimming much more, make steadier progress, and be able to have great confidence in your choices.

保持强烈的好奇心。游泳是最复杂，最有挑战性，反直觉的运动。因为需要水里的技能，而人类是陆地动物。如果不断提高你的认知，你会更加热爱游泳，不断地取得进步，并对你的选择充满信心。

5) Practice is its own reward. Whatever goals have motivated you to begin swimming, strive to progress to a point where those external goals — while remaining sources of motivation — essentially become beside the point. The motivation that brings you to the pool day after day, year after year, decade after decade is the knowledge that your practice is the high point of your day, it leaves you energized mentally and physically for everything else you do, and–over time–produces enduring positive change in body, mind and spirit.

练习就是获得。无论你游泳的动力是什么，在保持你的动力的同时，尝试去提高某一点。