Practice + Pancakes: Texas Women Throwdown Before Duals with Stanford, Cal
On your average Wednesday, you can find the Texas women doing pace work. Luckily for us, it was a typical Wednesday in Austin.
Practice + Pancakes: Texas A&M Men Crush 30×50’s Pace @ :50
At this point, it’s practically a halloween tradition that I drive down from my home in Austin and see what the Texas A&M men are up to in College Station
Practice + Pancakes: David Marsh Leads UCSD Through Power Stations
Head coach David Marsh cooked up some spicy power stations for the college team to take on, both in, out, and around the water
Practice + Pancakes: Team Elite, Chinese Pros Suit Up + Throw Down
Michael Chadwick, Jacob Pebley and Lia Neal, got pancakes with me after their first “quality” set of the season, talking me through what the workout was like
Practice + Pancakes: Cal Olympians Show Speed at Alumni Practice
Olympians, NCAA champions, and national teamers from around the world got back in the pool to swim with the current Bear swimmers.
Practice + Pancakes: USC Beach Practice
At the beginning of the season on Saturday’s, USC drives down to Manhattan Beach to have a workout on the waves. How could I say no to filming that?
Practice + Pancakes: Swimming Lines and Get-Out Climbs with Club Wolverine
Remember how Club Wolverine’s top group has over 50 swimmers? Obviously we had to see what a practice with that group was like
Practice + Pancakes: Michigan Men Get Innovative with Power Work
It was a Friday morning, so both men and women were working on getting some good power in, but in two very different ways
Practice + Pancakes: Michigan Women Work Power + Pullies (Video)
The Michigan women were in the water at 6:30am, and after a light warm up got right into a variety of high octane power stations
Practice + Pancakes: Stanford Men Get Up to Speed During Finals Week
After getting pancakes in Berkeley with the Cal men, we couldn’t resist heading down to Palo Alto and seeing what the Stanford men were up to.
Practice + Pancakes: Cal Men Get Meet Ready With Socks Speed Work (Video)
In the pool, new Cal assistant Chase Kreitler led the sprint and mid groups through a resistance set of 25’s with a variety of toys
Practice + Pancakes: Texas Men, Dean Farris Tackle Fast Friday (Video)
Teams are training hard and loading up on their swimmers. What better time to go and see what the 4-time reigning NCAA champs are up to?
Practice + Pancakes: Stanford Women’s 400 IM Group (Video)
The 4 girls leading lanes (for most of the set) placed 1,2,4, and 14 at this year’s NCAAs. The 3 that were in the A final all dipped under 4:00.
Practice + Pancakes: Ledecky, Manuel, Neal, Sweetser AM Workout (Video)
Remember that world record that Katie Ledecky set last week in Indy? Well a week before that, SwimSwam was in Palo Alto for practice with Stanford
Practice + Pancakes: Garrett McCaffrey Sets the Pace at Phoenix Swim Club
Garrett McCaffrey, Co-Founder of SwimSwam and swimming media legend, has embraced a new challenge, one much closer to the water than sitting behind a desk.