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Michael Phelps on his journey to Olympic greatness, his struggles with depression, and how WHOOP helps him be his best

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Count Your Strokes Off the Wall

I'm on auto pilot, so my goggles do fill up with water instantly. I take my kicks like i normally would. Count my kicks off the wall, just because of the 15 meter mark. And i don't want to ever go past it. The 15 meter mark is as far as we can go under water. So for me, that was one of my weapons. It's these little small things, the goals that i set throughout my my quad. Every single year i short of missing that,. even though i won and broke the world record. Yes, i'm still upset, because that's, that's me. I want nothing but perfection.

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