SwimSwam Podcast: Aaron Peirsol Breaks Down The Super Suit Era
We spoke with Aaron about the past, present, and future of swimming, in terms of the sport itself as well as swimming as a business
SwimSwam Podcast: What Would Janet Evans Give All Her Olympic Medals To Do?
Janet described running the Olympic torch to Muhammed Ali at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Evans says it was by far the best moment in her Olympic career
SwimSwam Podcast: Calypso Sheridan on Future in USA, Past in AUS
Calypso says that although she’s not totally sure, she think’s she’ll return to Northwestern to finish her senior year without Kipp
SwimSwam Podcast: Katinka Hosszu Explains Brutal Origin Story of “Iron Lady”
Hosszu talks us through her age group days in Hungary, AKA swimming boot camp, and her successes and failures once she came to the US and USC.
SwimSwam Podcast: What the NCAA DI System Can Learn From DIII
Franklin coaches explained how their college balances academics and athletics, and we discussed what a DI program might be able to adapt from that model.
SwimSwam Podcast: Carson Foster Reveals His All-Time Top 3 Swims
Namely, he gave us his Top 3 swims All-Time that HE HAS SWUM as well as Top 3 HE HAS WITNESSED, with accompanying race videos
SwimSwam Podcast: How Getting Kicked Off the Team Changed Jason Lezak’s Career
At UCSB that Lezak made a big jump times wise, but also made a regression in attitude. This ultimately led to him being kicked off the team at one point
SwimSwam Podcast: Training at the Olympic Training Center During Quarantine
We spoke with para national teamers Robert Griswold and David Gelfand about how they’re handling this quarantine period at the Olympic Training Center
SwimSwam Podcast: The Best Home Workout Setup You’ve Seen
I’d say as far as at-home dryland setups, Adam’s has to rival the best of the best, with full racks of kettlebells, TRX bands, and more
SwimSwam Podcast: Gary Hall Jr. on Olympic Experience: “I hate the spotlight”
Olympic legend Gary Hall Jr discussed his Olympic experience, what his training was like throughout his career, and dealing with the spotlight.
SwimSwam Podcast: Kieran Smith Breaks Down 4:06 500 Free
We also dove deep into what it takes to swim a perfect 400m freestyle and how swimming might be able to break the magical barrier of 3:40 in that race.
