The Decision

I used to be a competitive swimmer since I was ten years old. However, when I was a senior in high school, at age 18, I had grown really tired of all the swimming. From Monday through Friday, I would be swimming for one and half hours before school and 2 hours after school. On Saturdays, I would be swimming from 6-8:30 am. This schedule was consistent 11 months of the year; the only month that we received off was August.
That is why I had decided to quit swimming my senior year of high school. I wanted to take a break from the consistent training and go out with my friends to the movies or do some other activity for a change.
But now that I am in college, I realized how much I really missed swimming. Sure the hours and nonstop training was rough, but now that I actually have so much free time, I realized that swimming is a great hobby or activity to do on a regular basis. So during my first semester of college, I decided to join the club swim team, and it was great because the practices were not as intense as they used to be when I was home, and the easy practices actually ended up being a great stress reliever and a way to clear my mind when I felt overwhelmed.
But then another thing happened to me, I had grown very weary of the easy practices, and instead, had grown a desire to swim intensely, and to push myself as hard as I can in swimming.
Lots of my friends are in the same position as me: they are tired of the intenseness, but then suddenly miss it after quitting.
Even the great Michael Phelps went through this. After the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Phelps had grown tired of swimming, according to a USA Today post titled “Michael Phelps talks about ‘downward spiral’ leading to his DUI arrest”
Swimming requires a lot of work, especially to get back to the speeds you used to have, so that is why I have decided to start writing this blog. This blog will be about how to get back into competitive swimming for swimmers that had quit, but had recently decided to start again. This blog will mainly contain sets, drills, and dryland workouts that I find online as well as personal tips from experience that I find really helpful to get back into the swimming groove.