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NLP in Sports Training: Improving Swim Team Performance – The First Meeting

My brothers and I were competitive swimmers growing up. When I was nine years old, my older brother, Mike, returned from swim camp with a pamphlet titled something like “Psychocybernetics and Competitive Performance in Swimming.”

I ate this. When he was nine years old, he simply accepted the idea that visualization and belief in oneself could help him achieve anything. I did well in swimming at the district level. Mike went on to the Nationals and still has local records.

Since then I have been fascinated by the workings of the unconscious mind in relation to performance optimization, in life, sports training and in business.

Now that I am an NLP coach, at the time of this writing I am preparing to work with a local swim team to help them reach peak performance. I met with the coach; the plan is to meet once a week for six weeks to improve team performance. There are 13 swimmers in the 13-18 age group.

The coach is a former Olympian, some of the youngsters are destined to go to national events. Big matches are coming up.

The swimmers seem very excited about this upcoming NLP sports training. I think it’s because the coach is very excited to have this type of training. I mentioned to him that the most powerful hypnotic inducement is your own mental/emotional state. When I introduced myself to the swimmers, they seemed to be a very motivated team. When I mentioned that it was going to be fun and that they were going to spend half an hour at one of their weekly swim practices, I laughed out loud as they nervously looked at the coach. I can see that she makes them work! I may have to jump in the pool myself for a workout after training these swimmers.

I am looking forward to meeting the coach and each of these fine young men on the swim team. I am excited to find out how NLP will help your sports performance in a short period of time.

My strategy is to work on the following:

1. Teach centering and grounding techniques to relieve stress in swimming competitions.
2. Logical levels of therapy. Take the entire team on a journey from your environment to your most important purpose in life, and work back with your augmented resources.
3. Work on any fears you have of success, being the center of attention in a swim meet, and other fears.
4. Clear up procrastination using chained anchors
5. Set up a motivational song for the team, ask them to listen to it before each practice
6. Ask them to walk to the pool floor in formation, dressed in the same way.
7. An arm up for breaking your own record, two arms up for first place – get team support (cheers) for achievements.
8. NeuroTrek Travel to Win

At the time of this writing, there will be 1/2 hour sessions with the whole team and two 1/2 hour one-on-one sessions with individual swimmers.

Stay tuned for the results!