Training

Carmel Swimming’s Secret Recipe (Video Feature)

Carmel has always been a swimming powerhouse around Indiana, but this year, they seemed even more dominant the ever. Their most recent state performance left onlookers asking themselves the same question. How is Carmel so fast, every year?

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Farida Osman explains move to Virginia Tech, Training with Sergio

After 5 and a half years of training with Teri McKeever at Cal, Farida Osman of Egypt decided she needed a change and moved across the country to Blacksburg, Virginia to train under Sergio Lopez at Virginia Tech

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Ali DeLoof: What’s Training like in San Diego?

After staying in Michigan to finish her masters and train, Ali DeLoof has made the move out to the Team Elite pro group in San Diego to focus full time on swimming. What has the transition been like?

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Allison Schmitt Evaluates Comeback Post-Pan Pacs (Video)

Allison Schmitt took this race out fast and kept it that way, holding off Melanie Margalis for the win with the 3rd-fastest time in the world this year. Margalis’ time is now #5 in the world this year.

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Breno Correia Talks SC Worlds 800 Free Relay, Brazilian Relay Camp (Video)

Brazil shocked the world by not only capturing 800 free relay gold at the Short Course Worlds in December, but then announcing a relay only training camp. Relay anchor Breno Correia took us through both experiences

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What’s Olivia & Natalie’s Favorite Thing About Training with Each Other? (Video)

Since the beginning of their time together, it seems as if Natalie and Olivia have both brought things to the table that their sprinting counter parts have picked up

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Chris DeJong: From Elite Swimming To The Big Blue Swim School

Chris DeJong: “…after the Olympic Trials in 2008….bewildered, shocked and disappointed, I shuttled off to Omaha’s Eppley Airfield for my flight home like so many others before and after me – without a clue of what to do next.”

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Jack Conger Breaks Down Training So Far at UVA (Video)

Conger breaks down what training has been like so far in his new home of Charlottesville with the UVA Cavaliers

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Caeleb Dressel Explains Wearing a Brief for Prelims (Video)

In the first morning of competition for Caeleb Dressel, in which he swam the 100 free and 100 breast, he opted to wear just a brief to race in, notably costing him an A-final spot in the 100 free

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Zane Grothe Changes up Distance Training Regimen (Video)

Zane Grothe held off Knoxville champion Anton Ipsen for the win. Both Grothe and Ipsen now have the #2 and #3 times in the world this year, knocking off 4 seconds from their Knoxville times.

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Why Leah Smith Hasn’t Trained a Lot of Long Course Lately (Video)

To be fair, it wasn’t necessarily her choice not to swim a lot of long course…

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Further Questioning the Kick in Swimming

I hope (this) causes you, comrades and friends, to reconsider the erroneous view that kicking is the ‘engine’ of the strokes mentioned above; instead, it evidently serves as an equipoise to the true motor – the arms.

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Blake Pieroni on Training: “It’s actually been pretty rough” (Video)

Catching the field off of the finish was Blake Pieroni, moving up to #4 in the world this year.

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