The Deep Dive with Renee Blundon: 005: How to Motivate Yourself to Become a Better Freediver

005: How to Motivate Yourself to Become a Better Freediver

Nov 5, 2020

Freediving is a unique sport and has very few similarities with other sports. Most of the top level freedivers train intensively for months on end, year after year, and hours upon hours per day in the pool, at the gym and depth, sacrificing social activities for yoga and sleep.

How do these freedivers maintain such high motivation?

Well all freedivers, even the most skilled and successful freedivers, have times with they feel a bit unmotivated. But the best freedivers know how to overcome this and stay motivated in order to keep the momentum going and keep improving as a freediver. This podcast provides some tips on how to motivate yourself to become a better freediver.

This episode is part three in the podcast series, Inside the Mind of the World's Top Freedivers, about mental techniques for freediving.

Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction to the podcast
01:15 Recap of the last episode
04:55 Continuing where left off and other factors that help motivation for freediving
05:29 Loving the grind of freediving
13:10 Giving out mentally before physically
17:11 Do you really need to love the grind? Accepting the grind
18:49 Be positive and optimistic!
24:53 Negativity leading to over-training and burn-out
26:18 Pick a freediving competition
31:21Self talk and rational thinking for freediving
35:46 Stay in the moment!
41:19 Have a good coach!
43:10 Or have a good training buddy
44:10 Be curious!
46:30 Motivational cues for motivation
48:44 What motivates me to freedive?
51:54 Conclusion