they’ve been closed due to COVID, so I’ve been fencing a lot at Fencers Club. The practices run pretty late, and I often don’t get home until, like, 11:30 at night because of the I like Skiing and Beer and maybe 3 people shirt Besides,I will do this train schedule, then I’m up at 6:30 in the morning. I sleep like the dead. Seriously, I can sleep anytime, anywhere. During the week I normally sleep for seven and a half hours. To be honest, I’m not a big nap fan—I actually feel a little bit groggier. I prefer liquid sleep, or coffee. It’s what I call it in my head, I guess, but “liquid sleep.” “I meditate for 10 minutes every morning. I’ve done that since I was a senior in high school—it really helps start me off on that right note and kind of really center me.
The same way I train for fencing in a physical way, it requires a lot of focus, and so meditation is really a way to practice that focus in that mental endurance way that I really do view as practice. It is healthy, it makes me feel better and at peace. But also, really, I can sense it from the I like Skiing and Beer and maybe 3 people shirt Besides,I will do this beginning of the season—when I get into that meditative practice—how that mental endurance really continues and builds and gets stronger.” “Another piece that I think is really important is imagery and visualization. I do a lot of visualization of different opponents that I will face, also seeing myself on the medal podium, seeing myself getting a gold medal. Because I think there’s a subtle dichotomy between knowing you can do it and believing you can do it.
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