The management of our emotions is certainly a very complicated aspect to deal with. Imagine our body as a race car, which has a tachometer counting engine’s revolutions. The best performance results from the alignment of your engine’s revolutions (emotional energy) with your gears (physical energy). Keeping engine’s rpm low at the beginning and gradually raise it when the race starts is a must.
This means knowing how to manage your energy, how to align emotional with physical energy in order to be perfectly prepared for the competition. The end result is an increase in strength while using less energy, and avoiding the danger of over revving, or using the reserves.
To ensure correct rpm for your engine, you have to do the following:
1. Check your heart rate several times a day. In the morning as soon as you wake up, in situations of emotional stress, during physical effort. This will help you understand how to manage different situations and therefore, control your heart rate.
2. Listen to music. As already seen, music may have positive effects both on our psyche and our bodies (Swim to the music). Create a playlist to accompany your swimming or having the same rhythm as your stroke. Music has the power to increase and decrease your emotional…
