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Paperback. What is the pool really teaching you?Most books written for competitive swimmers want to make you faster. Beyond Fast wants something more: to help you understand what the years of early mornings, brutal sets, and honest competition are actually building in you - underneath the times, underneath the technique, underneath the wins and losses.Because the pool does not lie. It shows you exactly who you are in the moments that cost the most. Not who you intend to be. Who you are when the set is in its eighth rep of ten and every reasonable argument for stopping is available to you and no one would notice if you took it.That is where this book begins.For every college swimmer - not just the eliteWritten specifically for Division II and III swimmers - the ones who will never stand on a national podium and who are building something just as real and just as valuable - Beyond Fast takes the inner life of competitive swimming seriously. The Division III swimmer doing the work at 5 a.m. is engaged in exactly the same essential formation as the scholarship athlete. The only difference is what they notice, and what they do with what they find.Three movements. One arc.Movement I - The Self: Who you are when no one is watching. Discipline. Discomfort. The voice in your head. Your relationship with your coach. Your body. Your identity beyond the stopwatch.Movement II - The Contest: How you perform under pressure. Failure. Presence. Visualization. Fear. Grit. Goals. Ritual.Movement III - The Life: What all of this is building toward. Handling success. The team you serve. The wisdom of knowing when to stop. What swimming transfers to after the pool.Grounded in the deepest coaching traditionsDrawing on Soviet and Eastern European sports science, Greek philosophy, Jungian psychology, Western academic research, and the verified wisdom of coaches from Anatoly Tarasov to Pat Summitt to Arsene Wenger, Beyond Fast brings a synthesis of traditions rarely found in a single volume on competitive sport.What readers will findA rigorous, honest examination of discipline, identity, and character formation through sportPractical frameworks for visualization, fear management, goal architecture, and ritual preparationThe research behind grit, flow states, sleep, and process focus - made directly applicable to the poolA vision of what the years in the water are building toward, long after the competitive career endsBeyond Fast is not a training manual. There are no split charts here, no seven steps to a perfect flip turn. It is an invitation to look at what you are already doing - the early practices, the hard sets, the losses, the unlikely victories - and see them for what they actually are.The water has been teaching you something about yourself since the first time you pushed off the wall.These pages are an attempt to help you hear what it has been saying. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798996135714
- Título
- Beyond Fast (Paperback)
- Autor
- Antonel Neculai
- Editorial
- Mettle Press
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798996135714
What is the pool really teaching you?
Most books written for competitive swimmers want to make you faster. Beyond Fast wants something more: to help you understand what the years of early mornings, brutal sets, and honest competition are actually building in you — underneath the times, underneath the technique, underneath the wins and losses.
Because the pool does not lie. It shows you exactly who you are in the moments that cost the most. Not who you intend to be. Who you are when the set is in its eighth rep of ten and every reasonable argument for stopping is available to you and no one would notice if you took it.
That is where this book begins.
For every college swimmer — not just the elite
Written specifically for Division II and III swimmers — the ones who will never stand on a national podium and who are building something just as real and just as valuable — Beyond Fast takes the inner life of competitive swimming seriously. The Division III swimmer doing the work at 5 a.m. is engaged in exactly the same essential formation as the scholarship athlete. The only difference is what they notice, and what they do with what they find.
Three movements. One arc.
Movement I — The Self: Who you are when no one is watching. Discipline. Discomfort. The voice in your head. Your relationship with your coach. Your body. Your identity beyond the stopwatch.
Movement II — The Contest: How you perform under pressure. Failure. Presence. Visualization. Fear. Grit. Goals. Ritual.
Movement III — The Life: What all of this is building toward. Handling success. The team you serve. The wisdom of knowing when to stop. What swimming transfers to after the pool.
Grounded in the deepest coaching traditions
Drawing on Soviet and Eastern European sports science, Greek philosophy, Jungian psychology, Western academic research, and the verified wisdom of coaches from Anatoly Tarasov to Pat Summitt to Arsène Wenger, Beyond Fast brings a synthesis of traditions rarely found in a single volume on competitive sport.
What readers will find
- A rigorous, honest examination of discipline, identity, and character formation through sport
- Practical frameworks for visualization, fear management, goal architecture, and ritual preparation
- The research behind grit, flow states, sleep, and process focus — made directly applicable to the pool
- A vision of what the years in the water are building toward, long after the competitive career ends
Beyond Fast is not a training manual. There are no split charts here, no seven steps to a perfect flip turn. It is an invitation to look at what you are already doing — the early practices, the hard sets, the losses, the unlikely victories — and see them for what they actually are.
The water has been teaching you something about yourself since the first time you pushed off the wall.
These pages are an attempt to help you hear what it has been saying.
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