Hey there, I’m a high school swimmer (17M). I’m going to be a senior next year, and honestly right now I’m feeling really down on myself. For some background, I joined the swim team this past year (I’ve swam since I was 5 but never consistently and never for the school) in October, I swam at state (with 5 months of training) and my team got first. I went a 23.8 50 free and 59.9 100 back, so I’m sorta fast but nothing special. All the guys I’m swimming with are insanely good and I’m always the weakest link on the relay. Basically November rolls around and I’m tired of swimming so I quit the club team and go back to just lifting weights. Now in January I realize I might have made a mistake in stopping swimming. I start back again (on my own, no club cause I already quit...) but this time my training is super sporadic. I always try to do too much too soon and end up hurting my shoulder a little so that I can’t swim for a couple of days. I didn’t have a problem with training on my own bc that’s what I did for the first 3 months last year. I think my problem is that I remember the intensity of club training and I can’t imitate it yet without hurting myself. It’s so infuriating though, just having to go 1/8 of the distance I used to go. Especially when I know all of my teammates are in the pool swimming 6000 yards every day and I’m just trying to make it to a mile without my shoulder dying. I also have a hard time motivating myself to go swim when I’m scared I’m just gonna go a couple hundred yards and then hurt myself. So basically my question is what should I do? How should I approach the situation? Is there any specific mindset I should take to get back into it? It’s been 2 months and I don’t feel any more in shape than before. Please help. Thanks in advance for any kind words.
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