Swimming

How did you work your technique to the point of having the fastest swim now a days, and even making up for your start?

So, swimming is actually pretty simple, it's just pure physics, right? So the thing is, you do not accelerate, I mean, you cannot accelerate during the race. So the game is pretty much whoever loses less speed wins the race. So try to minimize your drag and try to grow in terms of efficiency throughout the race, and then you're going to have the same feeling, the same sensation of speeding through the race, right?

Swimming is a game of minimizing drag and maximizing efficiency to maintain speed during the race.

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What do you want to accomplish in swimming that you haven’t accomplished? 💪🏼

Daniel, that's a great question. Actually, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH],, but I'll keep the answer in English. One of my goals is to be world champion at some point and even Olympic champion. But beyond that, I would like to help somehow to make Olympic stronger and bigger as a professional sport.

My main goal is to become a world and Olympic champion in Olympic, and also help make it a bigger and stronger professional sport.

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What is the most important 20 minutes of your week?

That's an interesting question. It made me think a little bit before answering it, but there's no for me, there's no such thing as 20 minutes in a week. Nothing that you do for 20 minutes only. It's gonna it's gonna I mean it's going to make a difference. What I try to think of what I try to focus, My Mind Set On is that every minute counts, every second counts. That's why usually said that. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you work your butt off for those two hours in the pool, or whatever you trained for and the other 22 hours in the day, you treat your body like crap. And you don't behave like a high-level athlete, right? So I wouldn't focus on 20 minutes gaps or anything like it. I'll just Start leaving like an athlete.

I don't think 20 minutes in a week makes a difference, since every minute and second counts in terms of achieving your goals. I would focus on living like an athlete for all the 24 hours in a day.

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Was there a race that didn’t go as planned, but ended up being a positive, defining moment for you?

So, in 2012, I went to my first Olympic Games in London, and I don't have much expectations after qualified at trials. But as I started to stream some prep meets before the game's itself. I started to notice that was I was really high on the world rankings and I started to build his expectation that I could do something special in London that summer. What happened. Is that every swim I had prelim semis. And before finals, I was improving time. I was feeling great. I was feeling amazing. It was super confident and I finished in fourth place by two hundredths of a second and my world just, I mean, it was destroyed fell off. I was so just upset with that that in the next year's every time I thought about quitting every time I was hurting in practice. I would think to myself that if I quit right there, they'll be a fourth-place attitude, you know, every time I had like a support work out. I'll think that was a fourth-place effort, so that mindset and that work ethics, and that regiment was what really made me has some of the results. I have many years later.

After qualifying for the 2012 Olympics in London, I had high expectations and ended up finishing fourth in my event. This motivated me to work harder and develop a work ethic that eventually led to better results in future years.

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Oh, I have so many races in mind. I'm such a swimming fan from my own races. I think any World Championships, finals, or Olympic Games finals, pan packs Pan, American games. I mean just love being there and Performing you on the on the highest of stages, but I would say from other people Michael Phelps against Milkovich in the 2008 Olympic Games. It's one and the 200 freestyle. The 2009 World Championships, where Paul biederman, broker will record. And I mean, of course, as any other reasonable swimfan. The four by one man, the man's 4x1 freestyle in 2008. Beijing it. I mean, it's just the most mind-blowing race of all time.

I would say some of my favorite swimming races are Michael Phelps' 2008 Olympic Games race against Milkovich, Paul Biedermann's 2009 World Championships record-breaking race, and the men's 4x1 freestyle in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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What advice would you give to an athlete who struggles with confidence in their own swimming abilities?

Well, I like to think confidence comes from consistency in practice practice. It's where you build confidence when you are testing your abilities daily, and you do it with some consistency. And you keep constantly remind yourself that you're capable and constantly stacking up. Days of good work. That's when you have the confidence behind the blocks that you're going to have what it takes to reach your goal.

Consistency in practice is the key to building confidence, as it allows you to test your abilities daily and stack up days of good work. This will give you the confidence that you have what it takes to reach your goals.

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Bruno Fratus is a professional swimmer from Brazil. A sprint freestyle specialist, Fratus competed in the 2012 London Olympics and represented Brazil in front of a home crowd at the Rio Olympics. Fratus won several medals at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai and 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara. In 2012, he finished fourth in the 50m freestyle at the London Olympics and won a bronze in the 400m freestyle relay. He also underwent shoulder surgery in 2014 and had a great comeback year. At the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, he won gold in the 50m freestyle and bronze in the 400m freestyle relay. At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, he won a bronze in the 50m freestyle, and at the 2015 Pan American Games, he won silver in the 50m freestyle and gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay. In 2019, Fratus won a silver medal in the 50m freestyle at the World Championships, 2 gold medals at the Pan American Games. At the 2020 Olympic Games he won his first Olympic medal.

How did you work your technique to the point of having the fastest swim now a days, and even making up for your start?

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