By Wayne Goldsmith

One of the most common questions I get asked by coaches is how to inspire swimmers to complete their workouts with the precision, accuracy and attention to detail that the coach feels is important - i.e. don’t count the laps, make the laps count.

My answer is YOU DON’T AND YOU CAN’T.

What I mean by that is, you are wasting your time if you believe you can stand at the end of the pool yelling at your team and make them / force them / motivate them to do the workout exceptionally well.

A far better option is to coach the swimmers to look at THE workout and choose to make it THEIR workout.

In this video, I share a story about the late and great coach John Carew and the lessons I learnt from him early one morning while he was coaching the brilliant Olympic Gold medalist, World champion and World record holder Kieren Perkins.

The bottom line is this colleagues: Coach your swimmers to choose to swim their practice exceptionally well - make it all about them - and inspire them - believe in them - to take ownership of and responsibility for the standards of their own workouts and your world - and theirs - will change forever.

Wayne Goldsmith

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