Quotes About Training

In summary, learn to breathe quickly with a low-profile breath to reduce frontal drag. Release some air from your nose after the breath, while looking down, not forward. Adopt the breathing pattern (respiratory rate) that is appropriate for the event, your age, aerobic fitness level (VO2 max), and your freestyle technique (stroke rate). Once you do all of that, you will find that the breath in freestyle doesn't have to be so problematic after all.

Achievement doesn't require you to be a full-time disciplined person where your every action is trained and where control is the solution to every situation. Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit. So

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine—in other words, a habit.

From age 14 through the Beijing Olympics, Phelps trained seven days a week, 365 days a year. He figured that by training on Sundays he got a 52-training-day advantage on the competition. He spent up to six hours in the water each day. "Channeling his energy is one of his great strengths," said Bowman. Not to oversimplify, but it's not a stretch to say that Phelps channeled all of his energy into one discipline that developed into one habit—swimming daily.

When you discipline yourself, you're essentially training yourself to act in a specific way. Stay with this long enough and it becomes routine-in other words, a habit.

You have to train your mind like you train your body. —BRUCE JENNER

Cus D'Amato, who trained Mike Tyson, said emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down. Many great athletes use anger in a positive way. Anger motivates them. Anger steels their resolve. It is much better to become angry than to become afraid.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift. —CHRIS EVERT

For whatever reason, we feel that we need more training, more education, more skills assessments, more time, or more money. We don't. We are the answers to others' prayers.

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

I will go about, from kingdom to kingdom, training many disciples. They heedful, resolute doing my teachings despite your wishes, will go where, having gone, there's no grief.

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice.

It's none of your nobility impelled me on my way. It's guilt and hate, and love and fear; these roused me forth each day. Nor had I any righteousness, no heaven-sent commission; A man's the sum of circumstance, of training, times, position.

Taming a dog is a child's play, as to an ignorant person.

Basic training was at Aldershot and if there is a more depressing place than this in all Europe, then I would not be interested to know of it.

The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.

The real purpose of this training," Mr. Dinnen told me, "is to teach our students that they can trust God to do what He has said He would do. We don't go from here into the traditional missionary fields, but into new territory. Our graduates are on their own. They cannot be effective if they are afraid or if they doubt that God really means what He says in His Word. So here we teach not so much ideas as trusting.

Gradually train yourself to show your love for Him by asking for His grace. Offer your heart to Him at every moment

For untaught soldiers it was rough, and men fought blindly, not knowing what they were doing; an officer came on one man who was loading his musket feverishly, firing straight up into the air, reloading and firing again, an automaton acting entirely by blind instinct.

Humans are social animals, highly susceptible to emotional contagion. Training, logic, and intelligence are often no match for the power of groupthink.

What you are pointing out is how adaptive it is to dissociate in many situations. If a soldier in combat simply went down the arousal continuum-and got to the flee and then fight stages-he would jump up and get shot. In order to maintain access to parts of his cortex-to think and behave in the ways he was trained to keep him alive in combat-he needs to dissociate to a certain degree.

And this is why you can't be in a corporation and address these issues by simply having everyone go to an anti-racism course or cultural-sensitivity training. You don't get trained in cultural sensitivity—you go spend time immersed in the culture, spend time with other people.

Talk about a system that needs trauma training. Law enforcement should be at the top of the list. Training about trauma, the brain, stress, and distress is essential if you are going to be a first responder—especially a police officer. Anyone given the responsibility of carrying a gun in service of society should have extensive training in these things.