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Bruno, when are we going to see a human go 19 sec in the 50 free LCM ( with today’s suits) ? And do you think sprinters will hit 20.7 in this decade ?

Yes, I do think 20.7. It is very possible. I just don't think we have figured it out yet. I just don't think we had found a way of doing it just quite yet. But a 19 second, 53 long-course meters? That's going to take a minute.

Yes, it is possible to swim 20.7 seconds in 53 meters, but it has yet to be achieved.

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Why did supersuits impact freestyle records more dramatically than breaststroke records?

So, what does SuperSU deed for us? Back in the day? They taught us how to swim faster. All those records. They were not the super suit alone. Of course, you just throw the suit in the water. You would just won't go away Swimming by itself. What really happened is that once you had the supersuit, there was this proper mechanic in your swim, in your stroke, that will make the suit work. And that coincidentally that translated. Really well without the suit as well. I did that. So the, with the breaststrokers they were be able to do. They are able to, to transfer that mechanics of the super suit swim to textile suit swim. If that makes any sense.

SuperSU taught swimmers how to swim faster by teaching them the proper mechanics of swimming with a super suit, which translates well to a textile suit.

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Thoughts on the idea that being a “high-level athlete ≠ healthy”? 

That's an interesting question based on my experience and what I see around high-level sports are not healthy. They're definitely not healthy for your body for your physical health. Your body takes a lot of pounding for your social life. You have to, to sacrifice a lot of time with your family, with your friends and for as much as we be talking about it, it's not healthy for your mental health. Either is not good for your mental health, either. I mean, we're trying to improve, we're trying to get better. But again, based on what I see around and what I lived and my own experience, you need to be an extremely individualist. If you want to succeed in an individual high level sport unless you're playing a team sport, of course. Also that you go to a level where you need to be kind of an workaholic, if you want to really do everything, right? Like all the training, the resting the, the eating, the meditating, everything you need to, go to workaholic level. Owls and anything the that ends the finishes with termination haluk. It's not healthy for you. So I mean, still love doing it. I'll still do that all over again. I still think it's worth it. I mean it's when you're up there in the potent or stepping on the blocks with the chance of fighting to be one of the best in history, one of the best in the world, and that's that's all worth it.

High-level sports can be physically, socially, and mentally unhealthy. You need to be an individualist and almost a workaholic to take it to the highest level. Although it can be tough, the rewards are worth it.

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What do you think separates swimmers that go sub 23 seconds for the 50 LCM from the rest. How big of a factor does height and talent play? 

Josh, what's up? I mean, first of all, sorry about the hair, but it can be literally anything. I do recommend that you record your best racist and if you have them in video or just record races, you have come in the future and try to analyze in what part of the race can get better. You can be your start. You can be on the water. You can be your stroke Tempo. You can be your stroke efficiency. It can be your stroke length. You can be your I know it can be literally anything and you don't need to be a specific height to be talented to be successful in the race, as well as talent talent is just, I mean, everybody's talented, man. You just got to find a way of making the body. You have swim this 50 meters as fast as you can.

I suggest that you record your best races so you can analyze what parts of the race you can improve on. You don't need to be a certain height or have any specific talent to be successful in the race, as talent is something that everyone has - all you need to do is figure out how to use the body you have to swim the 50 meters as fast as you can.

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What does it take to become a sub-20 50 m freestyler? 

Well, if you're talking sub-20, I imagine you're talking about yards. And if we're talking about yards swimming, I'll say basics, skills. Work your underwaters. Work your turn. Work your breakout and your start. That should take care of it.

Work on your underwaters, turns, breakouts and starts.

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How important is swim specific aerobic work?

I personally think that is important for young athletes to develop athleticism. If you as a coach wants to achieve this level of athleticism throughout the robic swimming, so be it but be careful with the technique as long as they're don't not going out. Ugly and sloppy in the water. They'll be fine.

It is important for young athletes to develop athleticism, and coaches should ensure they are doing so in a proper technique while avoiding sloppy and ugly form.

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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.