What is the most impressive practice performance or set that you’ve ever witnessed? Who did it?

Ryan, I'm trying to wrack my brain here for an individual who's done some amazing things. We've had many over the years, but here's a team set that we did at Auburn that really stands out in my memory is we did 8/100 total on 5 minutes. But the kicker was you had to do a maximum of five up front, and you had to get under the A cut. It was from a push, and we had fins on. So let's say for freestyle the A cut was 42 flat. You had to push five of them under the A cut. If you got all five, you were done. If you missed one, you had to-- you had to do an extra. So you had to do six. If you missed again, you had to do seven. You missed again, you had to do a total of max eight of them. So it kind of favored the people that went for it up front and challenged them. I just remember as a team everybody really embraced. It was a lot of fun getting under those A cuts. A couple of people missed, had to do an extra one here or there. I don't think anyone went all the way to eight. But that was a really cool fun team set that we did. Everybody getting under the A cuts with fins on from a push. Fun set.

So the most impressive practice performance I've seen, Ryan, is Caeleb Dressel and Eddie Wang were doing a set of 2,100s. This was back in Budapest in ISL in 2020. They were doing 2,100s on 130, long course off the blocks. The first 50 was fly, like hold, like go fast, and then on the way back was just easy freestyle. But every single one was from a dive, so they had to have enough time to get up, and get ready, and stuff like that. And Caeleb and Eddie were going like 25s just the whole time. And they were so competitive that they ended up actually like doing 24, 2,500 because they just wanted to keep going, and going, and going. And I remember I was doing like a sprint, super short sprint resistance set, and I was like, I don't ever want to do something like that. But I just remember being like that is insane how they can just go. They were just holding those times like it was nothing. See, I think that was probably one of the most impressive things that I've seen in practice.

OK, Ryan. I think some of the most impressive practices that I've seen and I had-- I've been lucky to be around some amazing people in practice. But I would say, that to be with you and with Joseph [? Schooling. ?] And we did many, many different sets that I think many people that age, they were not able to even come close. But one of the sets that I liked that you did, and I think you did pretty well, and I think by the time you were 16 you were able to reach that 16, 17 that this time is 16, 200 with 16, 210 long course. The first three, there were on 240 at that point, freestyle. Just keep your heart rate 140. We rested one minute and then, one backstroke. And then we did three freestyle, another backstroke, three freestyle, another backstroke, and three freestyle, and another backstroke. And the first one backstroke had to be kind of aerobic three. So at that time for you was around 217 to 218. The second one was VO2 max with the chart that we had and you had to be probably I think around to 212 to 213 maybe to 214. The third one was anaerobic one. You have to be around 207 or so. And the last one was anaerobic one pretty much fast you had to be around 201 to 2. And you did awesome. You and Joseph did that perfectly and the last one you finished at 201 or 202 several times. And that was unbelievable because we did that after a session of medicine ball and it was very impressive to watch 216 and 17-year-old swimmers to be able to go through that set. In college, I want to say Anton Ivanov has on that said plus 16, 100 to with the same thought process. So he was 16, 216 100 and Anton Ivanov is a 200 flyer. And he will do three free and one fly. And he will go on the fourth fly 142 from a push. And on the last one fly the last 100 fly that I give them some extra rest to move to the other side. He will be at 47 and 247 three. So and the last one in the hundreds will be from a dive. So very impressive. So this would be some but I could write I think most coaches write some good books about very impressive set.

A Rhymer feet while I'm going to, I'm going to go looky green bank here. So I saw him doing a really cool set of, well, probably the best one that he'd done and hit up and see if you can do this one. Be good. If you boys could go at it over the next two years, see what comes out. So he went, we built up to it. But this was this final week before we started the decline into Olympic. So, he went a 100 short rest, backstroke long on 120 cycle than 100 easy. Then he went 100 VO2 and then he went 100 easy and he went six one hundred short rest 100 easy and to 100 VO2 then 100 easy after that, then he went for 100 short rest on 120 cycle, hundred easy. 3/100. Vo, 200 easy, and he went to 100's short, rest 100 easy than for 100 VO2. And on his last 44100, he was suited and he went, I mean, I'm sure you'll be at a pop, this one out as well, but I couldn't believe it and this is no coaching. Liar exaggeration. You went 54 54. A 455 on his last for 100. It was insane. So, get I want done Ryan. Let's see what we can. Pop it out, and then use someone back to us. All right, bring it on.

Well, I've been lucky to have in the group over the years some very, very good swimmers and have done some awesome training sets. I think ones that spring to mind Mitch Larkin suited up one day-long course. We had four 100 on no rest cycle, and they were meant to be the first two at front-end speed for his two of the backstroke. And the last two were meant to be back-end speed, and Mitch was feeling particularly good on the day. He did 253s for the front-end speed in training and 254s for the back end. So that's probably one of the best things I've seen. Park Tae-hwan, the Korean freestyler, did a set of 1650s on 130 long course without a suit and held 24 points all the way, and went 23-7 on the last one. That was another really good one.

So the most impressive set I've ever seen was from Siobhan Haughey in Naples when we was in there for the ISL. We done a set that basically involved going some 25s fast-- well, 50s is 25 fast, then some 100s is 50 fast, and then some 150s is 75 fast. And you had to keep doubling the time. So whatever you went for the 25, then she went, like, 13.0. She had to double. So when she was doing 100, she had to go 26.0. And obviously, when we got to the 75, she had to go 39.0. And on the first one, she went 13s and 26 lows. And on the first set 150 of 75 fast, she went something like 40.8 or even 41.2. And I was like, come on, you can go 39. And then, she did. I think it was like 39.2, I can't remember. It's on a vlog somewhere. I probably could have just shown you the footage of that. But that was mad impressive. But the footage I'm showing you is tonight at practice, this lovely outdoor pool on the sea here and Sea Point in Cape Town, South Africa. And we went 12 200s of 230 long course, a mix of paces in there. Here, we've got Chad here. We've got [? Dani ?] here. But [? Dani ?] wore fins and paddles for the whole set. He's an open water swimmer. Chad wore no equipment for the whole set, and he was at a 59.1, I think. I think this was a 30 point, a 30, or a 30 high. 'cause he was 130.0 here. And yeah, he comes back like an absolute steam train now, just an absolute steam train. This is outrageous, how fast he swims. For a [? 159.0 ?] was a 28, 28.9, I think, just absolutely romping back. [? Dani ?] goes 157.5. But he is wearing, as I said, fins and paddles. But still impressive. Really nice finish here by Chad, going and little straighter on the arms.