Hello everyone!

My name is Lukasz Goleniec, I am professional swimmer and basic student of Physical Activity and Dieting at the same time. Swimming training has taught me a lot, but not only in swimming technique and performance but also a lot helped in life. Shortly, I want to introduce myself and describe you my life.

It all started on the eighth birthday. My parents enrolled me in the swimming class. In the beginning it was more fun than training but I have enjoyed these times so much. The first babies' contact with the swimming pool intensified in the fifth grade when the swimming lessons started with a coach. Every workout in the water was a real pleasure, and so I have until now at the age of 20 years.

Swimming is undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable forms of recreation, and at the same time a sport that perfectly fits in shape and perfectly shapes the figure. However, it turns out that fun in the pool can be in various ways disturbed. The average amateur of water sports using the swimming pool during public hours must be prepared for the whole mass of unpleasant encounters that may be waiting in the basin of the pool.

The joy I enjoy swimming is the main element that encourages me to go to the pool regularly and train as professional athlete. But I recently realized that the enthusiasm for doing more workouts could be even more intense, with additional motivate injections. This month, I have already found three such incentives:

1. Set a new goal. My biggest goal is to win an olympic medal, but in order to achieve it, we have to face smaller goals, which we will achieve in shorter time like life record in the nearest competitions. This goal, despite being so far away, is extremely determined even to greater regularity and perseverance in training. Apart from the pleasure of swimming, an additional motivator is now also a general improvement in the physical condition needed to implement the new decision.
2. Companionship. Swimming is a sport for solitarists and individual overcoming of lengths can be tedious for many people. Of course, the meeting of two enthusiasts, after all, resulted in joint training sessions. This "social" dose of motivation has made me 110%.
3. Watching progress.  Swimming was for me so far only a favorite form of spending free time, so it was never a form of competition with anyone. Next I think that I swim primarily for myself, however, the discreet bacillus of competition was instilled in me Wojtek, who in August won his first silver medal of the World Championship 1500 in meters freestyle. He encouraged me to monitor my progress by writing my training logs. The ability to compare your results with the achievements of other, better swimmers is very motivating.

Certainly, for many people, monotony of constant gazing at the bottom of the pool would be unbearable in the long run. It is a fact - swimming is individual and is primarily a form of struggle with oneself. In case of swimming devotion drastically reduces the possibility of social life, not to mention learning or work.

Perhaps loneliness in fact stamps his stamp on the swimmer's psyche, but I do not think that experience has had a decisive influence on the whole of human life. For a change, it is worth to quote here Chrissie Wellington, whose book I am reading. The famous triathlete mentions that since childhood he loved to walk to the pool not so much for the joy of doing sport, but for the social aspect of swimming, which gave him the opportunity to spend time with friends and this sentence perfectly reflects my life as a performance swimmer.

It all depends on whether you want to do it or not, requiring sacrificing discipline. For me, fortunately, loneliness at the swimming pool is the best way to calm down and find new goals.

Below is a photo of the competition: