In the SwimSwam Podcast dive deeper into the sport you love with insider conversations about swimming. Hosted by Coleman Hodges and Gold Medal Mel Stewart, SwimSwam welcomes both the biggest names in swimming that you already know, and rising stars that you need to get to know, as we break down the past, present, and future of aquatic sports.
We sat down with Michigan All-American and DC Trident star Tommy Cope. Tommy takes us through his ISL season, which he almost opted not to go for, as well as this past summer which he spent in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at an engineering internship. Cope said his training during this summer was much different than a normal summer at Michigan.
While he would try to swim regularly (6-7 times a week), it was usually only for 1-1.5 hours at a time. However, he was also lifting more, cycling, and playing basketball and volleyball with his fellow interns on a weekly basis. Cope said that swimming by himself could be challenging at times, but because his main focus was breaststroke, he could get away with it, saying that maintaining feel for the water was more important than an aerobic base in the water for those few months.
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Next time can he talk about how he can get away with taking extra dolphin kicks on the start?
watch this, it’s absolutely egregious: https://youtu.be/rXN-5kRdXuI?t=47
yeah that is egregious. way worse than the second kick most other offenders do during the pull. three dolphin kicks before initiating the pull!
If you can’t beat em, cheat em I guess
Didn’t listen to the interview, but swimming in yards probably helps if your claiming you don’t need the aerobic base for breastroke…
%50 of the race is the underwater glide,
Don’t listen to anything this guy has to say!
I would agree that breaststroke is moreover in general a technique that stresses the perfect form rather than the aerobic capacity. In the first place, there really aren’t many different types of breaststroke you can do and everybody at the high level most differ from their pacing and just overall turnover speed.
I’m going to guess that a non-breaststroker wrote this comment.
That’s cap