Things aren’t happening TO you, they’re happening FOR you. That’s the reframe gratitude gives you.
Think about how easy it is to look at a hard set and think “I HAVE to do this.” Now shift that one word: “I GET to do this.” How lucky am I that I even get the chance to try…
That’s how 12-time Olympic medalist Natalie Coughlin trains her mind. Not “I have to kick my own butt every day.” bBut”I get to.” Not “I have to grind through five or six hours of training.” But “I get to chase being the best I can be, every single day.”
She says that shift is what carried her through the roughest stretches of her career, because professional sport is finite, and she wasn’t going to waste a single day of it feeling burdened by something most people never get the chance to do at all.
Earlier this week we asked you to reflect on your past season and express gratitude towards it. Now, where in your training can you shift “I have to” into “I get to” and invite more gratitude into your daily training. Drop it below!
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08/17/2026
With the season coming to a close it’s worth noticing what actually got you through it. All the morning practices, the lactic sets, your teammates by your side, the best times and the races that didn’t go your way.
Gratitude does more than feel nice at the end of a season, it calms your nervous system down while it sharpens what you pay attention to. Gratitude is contagious, and the swimmers who notice the good stuff tend to keep showing up for themselves!
This week’s Current is about that: let your gratitude overflow. What from this season are you still forgetting to thank?
08/10/2026
Guess what! Fall and winter weekends are open for clinics!
Now is the perfect time to build a foundation at the start of your season with new tools and resources you can tap into when training gets intense. Reach out and let’s talk dates, rates, and a curriculum built around exactly what your team needs (with our very own IDSA touch, of course)!
08/06/2026
Right now some of you are deep into Jr Nats with 5 sessions still ahead, and some of you just walked out of Nationals or Futures.
At a big championship meet when your nerves are heightened, your brain will try to swim the whole meet before your next race even starts — every prelim, every relay, every cut you still need, all at once.
Your nervous system can’t tell the difference between a real threat and a thought and it reacts to both the same way. Your heart rate goes up, breath shallows, mind races three events ahead.
Regulating it isn’t about calming down, but about narrowing down. One breath, one wall, one race at a time. What are you actually racing right now?
A masterclass on presence.
Shoutout our surprise guest from last month’s clinic: Your 2026 National Champion Caeleb Dressel
It’s always such a pleasure to take in the mentality of the greats:
“You’ve trained so long. Don’t be the one who gets in the way of what your body is going to do.”
Keep it rolling!💪
07/29/2026
To all you swimmers crushing it at Nationals and Futures this week, let’s go! The work is done, breathe big and stand tall, just like we practiced. Your time is now. You’ve got this!
Need the perfect wind down between sessions? Head to our free guided meditation at the link in our bio to center yourself, calm your nerves and prepare for the next attack 😼
A clip with Nathan Adrian from our podcast, In Deep 🎙️ We got into passion, and why it’s the thing that actually keeps you coming back to the pool… just the love of it.
I think we’ve all romanticized the suffering, the grind. But Nathan said it so well: the people who stick around are the ones still chasing whatever made them fall in love with swimming in the first place.
So do that. Go after the stuff that lights you up and let it pull you back in. The ‘grind’ sorts itself out from there.
Full episode’s linked in bio 🎧 tell me in the comments — what made you fall in love with this sport?
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