Recently I had a meet and with David's breathing technique I didn't have pre race anxiety anymore and felt confident and calm before the race especially before the 200 fly and minused 3 seconds from it and had 2 races before as well. I recommend the breathing technique to swimmers that go through pre race anxiety and being scared before a race because it really helped a lot.

Here's what I'd do if I wanted my girl to suffer from bad pre-race anxiety: Tell her... 1) That she's very, VERY talented. And do it often! 2) To relax and just have fun! (oh yeeee, we've all been there. Backfires!) 3) You got this, you can PB! 4) I KNOW you can win this thing! 5) Just do what you practiced. 6) You're better than the others. 7) BONUS: I compare her to other age-groupers all day long (I see you parents 🙈) Got any other terrible advice? Drop them below in the comment section.

Hi, I'm Dani, im a spanish swimmer of 14 years, I discovered this community in Instagram in a post that said "do you want to loose the anxiety in competition?", and thats my biggest problem, I was never the best of my friends swimming, but I keep improving and improving and I am training a lot and very hard, stretching, eating healthy and more things, because win something and prove that you dont have to born to swim, you have to train to do it is my biggest dream. But in competition I always have the same problem, I am VERY nervous, before competing I vomit and later, my marcs are worse than the marcs that I do training. I think I talked a lot, but I can't talk of this with anyone, if you have read all the text, thanks a lot. ❤️

Hey my name is Mina from Norway. I’m 17 years old and I swim for my home club. I started my swim career at 6 years old and have swam since. I have good hope in this group to get better and learn new things.

Julius just had his first real competition, No restrictions: 25m freestyle - 23,71 3rd place, PB: 6,49s 25m breaststroke - 30,45 3rd place, PB: 5,65s Please comment what “we” can work on.. (a lot I know, but he is 10)