Swimming

Sex before sporting events is a personal decision, but some athletes choose to abstain. Ultimately, it's up to you to decide if sex helps or hinders your performance.
 
Transcript: "Well, we've got two professional athletes in my house-- me, an Olympic swimmer, and my husband who played in the NFL for 13 years. He always abstained from sex. He said that it weakened your legs, and he was a punter so maybe he would know. And actually this is a trivial pursuit question, because in 2000, I believe it was, the Canadian Olympic swim team decided that they were going to abstain from sex for six months before the games. They didn't have their best Olympics. So listen, if you're feeling sassy, get down with your bad self. If you think that it hurts, then it hurts. If you think it helps, then it helps. Just enjoy. Have fun. Don't think too much about it. Cheers."

I've done a variety of cakes, from 3-tier with 2 minutes descending, turnaround times, to 10 3-tier with 2 minutes, 30 153 and 140. My best effort was a 1073 weight cake with a 3 tier and last 3 on a weight.
 
Transcript: "Best cakes that I've done. Twelve ones three-on-two, 10 3 on 2 minutes, 30 153 and 140. I've seen descending, turnaround Times. Best effort. My fastest, three with my last three on a weight, when a weight 1073 talking with the board. Yeah, really good stuff like that."

To win at the highest level, you need to have a good work ethic and great technical skills, as well as race strategy, recovery ability, and coachability. It's important to discuss this with them in a non-threatening manner and let them know what they're doing really well and one or two things they could work on.
 
Transcript: "I think to win at the highest level, there's a whole bunch of things that you've got to be doing really. Well, the ability to work hard. I think is a huge part. So I think if they're taking that box, that's something that's very, very positive. But as well as that it's you know, technical having great technique having great skills having that good work ethic which it sounds like they've got being a consistent worker is also very, very important race strategy. How well they recover. How coachable is that? Some of there's a whole bunch of different things, but I think you need to be discussing this with a man in a non-threatening manner. So it's just, you know, pulling to the side and having a conversation and letting them know what they're doing. Really, really well? And perhaps maybe one or two things that they need to work on a little bit more in order to keep progressing."

Bob Bowman's memorable quote is to get better at underwater work when it's easy, not when it's hard. The best way to do this is to warm up and have a plan for your focus every time you swim.
 
Transcript: "I have been fortunate in my life to meet many a great coach and a lot of them have similar opinions but their memorable quotes vary. In my life who I'm around win and Bob Bowman is a fantastic coach. I got to do a camp with him and someone was saying to him like, oh, I was talking about underwater work that I like to do or sometimes I do. And he's like, I don't really do that. And I didn't ask this question because I think I knew what his answer was going to be, but someone else did. He was like, well, why not? Like blah, blah, blah, whatever it's like, well, you do a turn every time you come down the pool that's when you do underwater work so you know how you improve your underwater is after a turn as you do underwater after a turn. The easiest place to do that is warm up. So you get better at underwater is when it's easy not when it's hard. And then you employ that ability later. So warming the lungs up and warm up, get ready, have a plan, and that's what you're going to focus on. And if you want to a good how many times a week do I focus on that? Every time."

Fins are a good tool to increase leg power, however it is important to use them in moderation as too much can disrupt the balance of propulsion between arms and legs. To increase speed and feel resistance, using buoys and paddles could be a better alternative to fins.
 
Transcript: "thank you for this question during my turn of the world every best coach in the world use a lot of fins and I don't really like fins I like to use fins to improve the power of legs so fins with parachutes on really short short six to 10 second very very powerful then a lot of rest six times eight times three times per week it's enough but after that my opinion is using too lot of fins is very dangerous because for example for freestyle butterfly or backstroke the harms are the most important part in the propulsion and when you use too lot your fins progressively you give too big proportion of propulsion by the legs and at this moment what appear your harms you use them more to balance originally you use your arm to move and your legs to balance more but when you use too lot the fins you take the habit to use your legs to move and use your arm to balance and after that when you try to accelerate it doesn't work so I'm not a big fan of swimming with fins only when I want to increase the power of the athletes I prefer swimming with buoy paddles etc athletes feel much better what what what what does have to do with the arms and also good idea is to work with fins to increase your speed and feel more the resistance could be another good idea"

Transcript: "I've ever modified a particular pace set for long course meters for swimmers with different goals or abilities. Yeah, I think you have to, to help them see some success. You know, you're not going to take a, say, a minute-based 100 freestyle or long course who wants to go 55 and start doing pace for 55. It's just not going to work. So you got to set a reasonable goal, say 58, 59.0, and start doing your pace, your rate, your race breakdown stuff based off that. So you kind of just want to edge them along through that whole process."