I think Chad's technique is first off really good underwater and I've had a swimmer that trained with him and when he is on a roll, he is extremely tough. He has a very high ability to withstand kind of the pain of training and and I also think he's he's a courageous racer. He's very aggressive, not afraid to go. Go out and die and do it again, and again and again. And he's a, he's a risk-taker in a good way.

For me Petra, summer traditional period iser. So I like to go bigger work in the winter cycle with short, rest as more of a focus like to add in more arrests in the cycle, from January to April and they're like to get really specialized fast and specific specific in cycle 3. So I've done some stuff we reverse periodization before, I find it a little bit clicky and little bit messy, and I like to just be quite traditional in the way that I period eyes.

The most important-- the single most important thing to improve power. It's hard to pick just one. If I had like one bit of advice to give you, the kick starts. So right at your chest level down is where the kick starts. That's where all your power's going to be coming from. Honestly, from chest level up should be still-- as still as you can be. If you watch video of Lochte doing it versus Michael, Michael's upper body is completely still. I think he's just a little more flexible than your average human and average swimmer to be honest. Lochte has a little bit more motion in his arms, which is fine if you watch both of them. Look how both those and you'll see what I'm talking about. It's fine to have movement as long as you're not trying to have movement from the chest up. It's like a whip. So pretend that from chest level up is like the whip handle and chest level down is the actual whip. So the handle is going to be perfectly straight and then actual whip itself is going to be doing all the movements. So that is what I would say is the most important thing and the best piece of advice that I have. Think about keeping your upper body still and activating from chest down for the kick itself.

During tapers. Something that I'm always making sure I'm doing is drinking a ton of water. I'm pretty bad about drinking water, but normally for me, like, carrying around like one of those big water bottles and making sure I'm finishing it, like one of those gallon ones that really helps me. So, I'll do that on paper. And then I always, once I get on the taper like set up bedtime for myself, making sure I'm not going to bed any later than that. So It's typically like 9:30 and just trying to keep myself on ice and sticking to that. So, sleep and water. The two things I really hone in on

I don't think so, man. There are so many other better ways of developing aerobic capacity in swimmers. Just get rid of anything that has the impact of running because you cannot sacrifice your swimmers' heaps, niece, backs just for the sake of aerobic conditioning. I mean, you have better options.

Hell's a sports psychologist, help with swimming performance while I had a wonderful sport psychologist for a period of time when he Swift when I was living back in Australia and swimming. And what Wendy taught me was to just help me or geek. She gave me skills to keep my thoughts in line with the present moment. And I suffered from performance anxiety, and I just remember sitting behind the block at the Sydney Olympics in the year, two thousand four hundred meters backstroke and and after ER, 16 years of my preparation of 16 years. I honestly look down the lane and didn't believe that I could beat Leonard Rosenberg, who was next to me and Matt Walsh, who is next to Lani. And so, when you think of it like that, it's like, wow, like how tragic that you wasted 16 years to get you to the point where this is, the, this is the ideal moment in a swimming career. And to be honest, I was beat Before the Race even started. So, and that was because my thoughts were out in the future Beyond when the A race had finished. And the picture that I was creating in those thoughts was built from, or engineered from my past. Okay, so, so yeah, I mean, that's how Wendy helped me and I just think, you know, so many people, particularly young kids suffer from this today. So, just understanding how important it is to keep your thoughts. In the current moment, you're only really living life when your thoughts are present.