Other than waking up and going to sleep each day, there isn’t much that I do consistently. However, since learning The SwimMastery Way, I have become obsessed with the idea of habits.
Especially motor habits and how they contribute to making progress in the water.
Swimming is unique in that it is a lifesaving skill. Tuning into each shape that you make with your body presumes that you have calmed your nervous system (which may be telling you to hurry and get out of this medium in which you cannot survive). Even if you are comfortable in the water, do you find yourself racing to the other side?
It is what happens in each stroke that matters.
But if you take your attention to your hand or your feet, or what your head is doing, you lose track of the whole body. It is the whole body that we want to lever over top of the water.
It sounds simple because it is. Once you understand the motor habits that you need to develop to lever yourself over the top of the water, you can do so across any body of water, anywhere in the world.