NO DAYS OFF - Best Motivational Video | Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps, winner of 23 Olympic Gold medals, talks about the part of his life where he almost committed suicide and how he did a great comeback in Olympics after struggling with depression for a long time.

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Edited by : @dayonerise
Spoken by : Michael Phelps
Music : Edge of Extinction (By Really Slow Motion)
Artist : Yuzhao Shen
Album : The X-Files Vol.5 Industrial/Experiment
Footage by : Under Armour, Olympics

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My life and my career was not a smooth easy road. I had a lots of ups and downs. I went trough a lot of tough times. After 2012, I fell into a major state of depression. That was probably the hardest fall for me. I didn’t wanna be in a sport anymore. I didn’t wanna be alive anymore. I just never forget being in my bedroom at home and literally sitting there for 3 to 5 days just not wanted to be alive.

I am never somebody who is given up And I didn’t wanna give up in that moment. So for me I thought there was a different road I could go down. I went 5 or 6 straight years without missing a single day. Doesn’t matter a holiday or birthday. If I am sick. This or that. It doesn’t matter. I wanted to make that sacrifice to do something nobody else has ever done.

So for me to go 5 or 6 straight years, that man I had 52 extra days a year. But also in the sports of swimming if you take one day off, It takes you two days to get back to where you were. As where I am getting 6 years straight. So I am getting that much more ahead of them. Getting that much more work.I am in that much better shape. I wasn’t racing anybody else. I was racing myself. I didn’t care what anybody else did. If I went the times I had on my goal sheet I knew that there is not another soul in the planet that could have done the times I had written down.

There were days where I didn’t wanna get out of the bed. There were days where I am sore. I can’t move. I don’t wanna swim. I am tired. I don’t feel well. This that and the other. Sure we all have days like that.

If you really want something and you care about something that much It doesn’t matter if you are not super successful at first time. Because if something you are truly passionate about, you are gonna get up and do it again. Do it again. Do it again. Doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. It Doesn’t matter how hard is it to get there. If you really want something there should not be a damn thing in this world that should stand in front of you and accomplishing that goal. And that’s the bottom line.

IF WE PUT OUR MIND TO SOMETHING, WE CAN ACCOMPLISH TRULY EVERYTHING.

[fit_unemployed]

Birthday and party doesn't matter for those who are really hungry for what they want
Keep going guys

[prashant_caclub]

A MESSAGE TO FUTURE GENERATION, DON'T LET THIS VIDEO DIE ❤️🔥

[funblogst.v]

This man is not Human.. He is beyond... Respect from India🇮🇳

[maddox]

this video is special when mp said tht each day iam working those years its like fire on my mind.
really inspired me to take no days off.

[sakshiyadav]

Hardwork, consistency is key to success

[ionagibbons]

I had a lot of negative experiences in the swimming pool from the age of 5yrs when I first went swimming. Teachers getting angry or tense made me so nervous and I cried a lot! All my friends could swim and were in clubs but me I couldn’t settle without feeling scared. But deep down I wanted to be a water baby like those cute cherubs in my story book and inside I was actually very sad about it. But I buried this and just told myself I wasn’t a swimmer that was that just have to accept it. At the grand old age of 49 years I decided to get in the water. I made myself go in the water almost everyday a small pool and teach myself how to breath in the water doing front crawl. It took about 3 months for me to get it and feel in control. Now 4 years on I just completed my first charity swim doing 22miles in a month have managed to swim a mile in 42 minutes when at the start I was swimming it in over 60minutes.
So mind and body are what makes anything happen. Every story of achievement is a different fit on us all but we can all feel good about celebrating someone else’s success. Their reach may not be our reach but if I never reached I would not even be swimming today. Our goals are different our methods are our choices but our appetite to reach is something I think we all share and can identify in each of us.

[KingaGorski]

No days off for 6 years… that’s gnarly bro

[libertyismyindefeasiblerig]

You are loved and you are brave enough to improve ❤🙏

[MrGhirbo]

i went 5 straight years without missing a single day of workout, 365 days/year. So for me to go 5 or 6 straight years, that meant I had 52 extra days a year.
But also in the sport of swimming, if u take 1 day off it takes u 2 days to get back to regular. Meanwhile I'm getting six years straight, so I'm continuing to build on that, getting that much more ahead, getting that much more work, getting in that much better shape. - Michael Phelps

[sophiaschmitt]

then there’s me who is watching all of these videos bc i’m in quarantine and i’m like cry bc i have to swim swim

[rezagholami]

I wasn't racing anybody else, I was racing to myself...

[JorgeSL]

"I was always hungry, hungry, and I wanted more, " said Phelps. "I wanted to push myself really to see what my max was."
Intensity has a price.
"Really, after every Olympics I think I fell into a major state of depression, " said Phelps (this is what they never tell us)

We live in the self-explotation era, what a fools we are! Validation seekers! I was there too, but I woke up. I hope you find the way, the real happy way

[lilijiang]

I love swimming Michael phelps is the best

[nikhilhooda]

Truly awesome no words for this wonderful video.

[Anjalisinghhh]

Commenting here to edit it after selction❤

[hanvour]

No wonder he won that many Olympic gold medals.

[khalidelgazzar]

Thats motivational & inspirational

[azizamnunna]

For me swimming is the greatest anti depressant and to know the two most celebrated swimmers, ian thorpe and phelps suffered from depression, seems too strange to me.

[randallsredman]

Last Summer, despite the Struggle I saw some ads where changes were being made of tanned bodies.