1) First of all, @Yul Münger and I are sitting on hot coals🔥 cuz we wanna know how you swam at Natioals/Regionals etc!! Share it. All of it. 2) Today's Academy training is also open to everyone who's coming to camp. Agenda: - Questions for those who are still racing - Lessons from 2025/26 - Camp preparation for swimmers - When & how to change teams (if we have time) Starts at 7pm Zürich time, which is 6pm UK time. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2906319395 3) Right after the Academy training we'll have a quick update on the No-Nag Method right here on Skool: https://www.skool.com/live/qcyRPLMxD3M 4) Check the Swimpros Calendar for Camp Updates next Sunday! Add them to your calendar if you're coming to Tenerife so you don't forget. See ya sooner or later!!! 😃

There's a sentence you've said about your kid so often it feels like a fact. It's not. And it might be their ceiling. You know the kind almost every swim parent has said: "She's just not a natural." "He doesn't have the killer instinct." "She's a trainer, not a racer." "He's just not built for distance." There's a line I love: "We question all of our beliefs.. except the ones we truly believe. And those, we never think to question." That sentence about your kid is one of those. You've repeated it 400 times, so it stopped feeling like an opinion and started feeling like a fact. It is not a fact. It's a belief. I saw this nailed in, of all places, a marketing email. Business owners love to say "my market is saturated" as the reason they can't grow. The point: that's just an excuse, because it lives OUTSIDE your control.. so there's nothing you can do about it. The fix is to reframe it into something INSIDE your control. Suddenly there's a move to make. Same with your kid. "She's not a racer" lives outside your control. Dead end. Reframe it: "I haven't figured out what makes HER want to race yet." Now you've got something to work with. "He doesn't have the killer instinct" becomes "we haven't found the thing he's competitive about yet." The belief you never question becomes the ceiling you never raise. So let's poke one today: what's a belief about your swimmer you've been treating as a fact.. that you're willing to question? Say it out loud below. That's the first crack in the ceiling. Onwards. David & Co ☺️

I'll be straight with you: this is an experiment, but it's easy to measure and I believe in it. So we do it together .. swimmers, parents, and me as your guide. No nagging. You're the boss. Here's why my heart burns for this one. The scroll quietly pulls a little life out of you every day. It gives us something .. distraction, boredom relief, a feeling of belonging .. otherwise we wouldn't do it. Nothing wrong with you. But it does not give you real connection, it does not give you love, and the problems don't go away. Being present does. Swimmers, you can win at this because you have a WHY: you love swimming, you want to level up, you're go-getters who respond to a challenge. And this is a challenge. Parents, you being here is the edge .. at this age advice lands better from the side than from mum or dad, so I carry the message for you. Together. Do all 3 in the comments 👇 1️⃣ Baseline screenshot. Your weekly screen time. - 📱 iPhone: Settings → Screen Time → See All Activity → switch to Week → screenshot. - 🤖 Android: Settings → Digital Wellbeing → tap the bar chart → Week → screenshot. 2️⃣ WHY you want less screen time. Swimmers your reason, parents yours. Be 100% honest. 3️⃣ WHAT it actually gives you. Distraction? Boredom? Feeling connected or informed? No wrong answer .. if you're not sure, journal on it for 7 minutes. I only coach the people who take step 1, so post your baseline. In a couple of days we move to the next step, gamify it, and adjust as we learn. Two easy wins today: no phones at dinner (parents lead), and phone away 30 min before bed. This is really about not wasting the potential you've clearly got!! Let the games begin .. first screenshot this Sunday, me included. 💪

Additionally, why is breathing every 3 strokes not for you?

Guys summer is getting pretty hot now. Quick reminder to drink loads of water first thing in the morning, throughout the day, during training, after training (recovery shake 3:1 ratio), and before going to bed. How you doing with hydration this week? Comment below from 1 (you suck at it) to 10 (you drink water like an Olympian). Go! 👇