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Should You Be Aiming For 80% Perfection - Not 100%?

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Mar 16, 2018
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Are you one of those competitive types who wants to be 100% perfect all the time? Perform every drill perfectly? Swim every session to your absolute maximum?

If so, it's really quite like that this total 100% focus may actually be holding you back. It tends to make you swim quite rigidly, and mechanically, removing any sense of fluidity in your movements…

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