On the lead as much as Berlin, World 200m & 400m Particular person Medley Champion, Katinka Hosszu will compete in a whopping 10 occasions!
Befittingly nicknamed the Iron Girl, Katinka is nothing in need of an actual life Marvel character. However what does it take to be Superhuman? We requested Katinka what she thought-about to be the 8 key qualities…
Dedication
For me the large day is every morning. I method coaching as if it have been the Olympics. I exploit all the identical psychological elements I’ll use on race day to get probably the most out of myself throughout every portion of coaching.
Imaginative and prescient
I completely love what I do. I imply I’m an expert athlete. If you concentrate on it, my profession as an grownup is chasing and following the goals I’ve had since I used to be a little bit lady swimming with my grandfather. Imaginative and prescient is a key attribute, the imaginative and prescient to see a brand new path. I need my swim profession to impression the game; I need to go away the game higher than after I first entered it.
Focus
I work out simply as laborious to assist my physique get better accurately as I do whereas I’m beating up in coaching, in order that my physique is ready to do what I need it to do, after I ask it. Throughout ultimate classes when I’ve 4 occasions, one after one other, I by no means consider something besides the primary one. You assume I swam 4 races in a session, however in my thoughts I swam 4 totally different classes.
Mindfulness
I strongly consider that the thoughts controls the physique, so a powerful mentality means a powerful bodily physique and my mentality has at all times been an enormous contributor to my success in swimming. If we perceive that our ideas and phrases are what ultimately create our character, then we perceive the place to begin creating the change.
Self-discipline
Your mentality controls lots about the way you deal with and react to totally different occasions and conditions. Loads of instances for me being drained is only a psychological factor. I ask myself, when I’m mendacity in mattress earlier than going to sleep later than night time if I’ll nonetheless be okay with the truth that my excuse for not doing one thing or for me being lazy and having my efficiency slack off, was that I used to be drained. I can’t bear in mind a time after I mentioned this excuse would make me really feel okay earlier than going to mattress. Mainly, If the excuse wouldn’t fly for me when I’m not drained then it mustn’t fly for me when I’m drained.
Competitiveness
Truthfully, I’m most likely about as aggressive an individual as you could possibly discover. I really like turning issues into a contest and I really like the combat to win. Nevertheless, I don’t hate dropping like lots of different folks. I used to hate it; I used to combat like loopy to win in order that I wouldn’t lose. Now, I noticed that there’s extra to life than the competitors instantly in entrance of me, and that if I do lose, life will transfer on afterward. Once I step on the blocks and grow to be obsessive about profitable, it’s for the enjoyable of attempting to win and I’ll give it every part I received earlier than I settle for defeat, but when I do lose, nicely, then the opposite individual simply received the higher of me and there’ll at all times be one other competitors if I select there to be.
Dedication
For me it comes all the way down to the concept laborious work will at all times come again to you, and if we all know what we have to do as a way to achieve success why wouldn’t we do it. Think about somebody got here to you and mentioned it’s good to go do x, y and z, and in the event you do you’ll break the world file. Would you do it or since a few of these issues is likely to be rigorous and demanding you’ll make excuses and motive why they’ll’t get accomplished. Truthfully, the reply to that query exhibits how dedicated to your targets you might be. For me, I don’t care how rigorous or demanding these duties are, my dedication to myself pushes me to work to get them accomplished.
Adaptability
Over my profession I’ve continuously heard folks make excuses. Excuses why somebody didn’t attain their targets or accomplish a process. It at all times looks like persons are ready for his or her excellent second, ready for the celebrities to a line, and for every part to only magically click on collectively for them. Nicely, for me, my view is that it will by no means occur. If it does that’s improbable, however my focus is on growing myself to the purpose that I may be on the highest of my recreation it doesn’t matter what the conditions is. It’s not about being greatest below excellent situations its about being one of the best below no matter situations current themselves.
