

Inside with Brett Hawke
Brett Hawke
Take an intimate look inside the minds of swimming's highest achievers with one of the world's best swim coaches, Brett Hawke.
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Nov 11, 2022 • 5min
David Popovici 200 Free Race Pace Set with Coach Adrian Radulescu
Coach Adrian Radulescu shares a 200 Free race pace set that they do 6 weeks leading up to a big competition.
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Nov 10, 2022 • 1h 3min
#285 Margaret Hoelzer 3x Olympic medalist + Sexual Abuse Spokesperson
Margaret Hoelzer is a 3x Olympic medalist, 6x World Champion, and former World Record holder. A proud graduate of Auburn University, she and training partner Kirsty Coventry went 1-2 in the 200 Back at the Beijing Olympics.
After the Olympics, Margaret disclosed that she was sexually abused as a child. What she didn't expect was her disclosure turning into a career as an award-winning speaker and spokesperson for the National Children's Advocacy Center.
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00:00 Bratter PA Immigration Law
00:05 Hello Margaret Hoelzer War Eagle
01:10 How'd you get into swimming?
04:00 Going to Nats at 13
06:40 Mary T Meagher
08:40 Going to Auburn
10:30 Freshman class
10:45 Kirsty Coventry
12:20 How to win a championship
15:45 Dryland circuit
18:45 Shadowed by Men's team?
22:00 Senior year runner up
24:20 Beine Nutrition
25:09 Adaptive swim lessons
25:50 Committing to a 3rd event
27:40 What made Auburn special?
30:05 What brought the best out in you?
32:00 Recognizing you won't like everything
34:00 Team to Individual success
36:15 Beijing Olympics 200 Back
38:10 Who was coaching who?
39:47 Swimtraxx
40:32 Sexual abuse prevention
46:15 Brett's brother was abused
48:00 Being a perfectionist
50:45 Margaret telling her parents
53:05 Didn't deserve being on the Olympic team
55:00 World Record for a month
56:58 Writing a book
58:30 From Africa to Alaska
59:45 "Survivor"
01:01:30 AnyQuestion
01:02:08 Destro Swim Towers
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BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics.
SWIMTRAXX: Swimtraxx One is the smartest swim specific tracker. Track your time, heart rate, and stroke rate all from the same device.
INTL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: Help preserve swimming history by joining the 1 in 1000 Club!
VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
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Nov 9, 2022 • 5min
Teaching stroke technique with Master Technician Ian Pope
Coach Ian Pope is considered a "master technician" when it comes to teaching stroke technique in swimming. This is what he looks for.
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BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics.
SWIMTRAXX: Swimtraxx One is the smartest swim specific tracker. Track your time, heart rate, and stroke rate all from the same device.
INTL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: Help preserve swimming history by joining the 1 in 1000 Club!
VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results. Subscribe to the Swimnerd Newsletter.
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Nov 8, 2022 • 35min
#284 Scott Sehnert, Director of Sports Performance for the Dallas Cowboys
Scott Sehnert is in his 7th season as the Dallas Cowboys Director of Sports Performance. In his role, Scott works closely with the athletic trainers and strength and conditioning coaches in developing player-specific nutrition and recovery plans.
00:00 Bratter PA Immigration Law
00:05 Scott Sehnert background
05:40 Auburn's nutrition plan
11:20 Dietician vs. Nutritionist
13:00 Professional vs. Collegiate
15:40 Food + Sleep + Recovery
18:15 Weekly routine
21:34 Beine Nutrition
22:22 Swim Angelfish
23:00 Eating before competition
26:40 Eating in game
28:00 Post game
29:45 Fast Food
33:30 AnyQuestion
34:20 SwimTraxx
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics.
SWIMTRAXX: Swimtraxx One is the smartest swim specific tracker. Track your time, heart rate, and stroke rate all from the same device.
INTL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: Help preserve swimming history by joining the 1 in 1000 Club!
VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results. Subscribe to the Swimnerd Newsletter.
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Nov 4, 2022 • 7min
What should a recovery practice consist of?
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What should a recovery practice consist of?
Expert answers about recovery from Kim Brackin, Eddie Reese ala Carson Foster, Sergio Lopez, Josh Watson, and Darian Townsend.
One theme that is brought up a few times is how a recovery practice in swimming is also a mental recovery. Sergio Lopez incorporates meditation into his recovery swim practices. Kim Brackin really believes active recovery practices should foster team relationships. Josh Watson is always thoughtful in his answers talking about what recovery practices were like in his heyday while also offering his two cents on what he would expect as swimmer today. Carson Foster gives you two Eddie Reese recovery sets and Darian Townsend provides perspective as a club coach.
00:00 Carson Foster
01:02 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
01:05 Josh Watson
02:23 Beine Genetic Sports Performance
02:26 Kim Brackin
03:43 Swimtraxx Swim Tracker
03:47 Darian Townsend
04:46 Swim Angelfish Adaptive Swim Lessons
04:49 Serio Lopez
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics.
SWIMTRAXX: Swimtraxx One is the smartest swim specific tracker. Track your time, heart rate, and stroke rate all from the same device.
INTL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: Help preserve swimming history by joining the 1 in 1000 Club!
VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results. Subscribe to the Swimnerd Newsletter.
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Nov 3, 2022 • 41min
#283 Jason Andrew on swimming Catalina + what it takes to be an award winning photographer
Jason Andrew is an award winning photographer and, of course, die hard swimmer. Growing up as a surfer, he was always in the open water but when COVID swept the world he really began to venture into open water swimming, completing the Catalina swim by himself. He used open water swimming as a form of therapy after losing his father to COVID.
Through a mixture of personal and assignment work, Jason’s been fortunate to work throughout the world. He explores the repercussions of poverty and political unrest through photography.
Jason was born and raised in Northern California, holds a BA in History from San Diego State University and completed a post-graduate certificate from the International Center of Photography.
00:00 Bratter PA Immigration Law
00:05 Hello Jason Andrew
00:55 Open water swimmer
03:00 Swimming Catalina
05:10 Losing Dad to COVID
06:25 Where did photography start?
08:30 Agents in photography
10:55 Personal style
12:30 Competing against myself
13:30 Hurricane Ian
18:16 Beine Wellness
19:50 Wife worried for you?
23:00 3 lenses
23:45 Capitol Riots
27:30 How does this feel as an American?
29:30 American political divide
31:30 6 hour training swim
32:10 Future of photography
35:40 Where can people find you?
37:00 SwimTraxx Swim Tracker
37:50 What's the top of the podium for you?
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics.
SWIMTRAXX: Swimtraxx One is the smartest swim specific tracker. Track your time, heart rate, and stroke rate all from the same device.
INTL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: Help preserve swimming history by joining the 1 in 1000 Club!
VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results. Subscribe to the Swimnerd Newsletter.
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Nov 2, 2022 • 8min
How to keep your hips high in breaststroke
Expert breaststroke technique advice from the best in the business: Sergio Lopez, Ray Looze, Beryl Gastaldello, Roland Schoeman, James Gibson, Annie Lazor, Michael Bohl, and Mel Marshall.
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics.
SWIMTRAXX: Swimtraxx One is the smartest swim specific tracker. Track your time, heart rate, and stroke rate all from the same device.
INTL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: Help preserve swimming history by joining the 1 in 1000 Club!
VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results. Subscribe to the Swimnerd Newsletter.
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Oct 31, 2022 • 22min
Mary T, Jesse Vassallo, Steve Lundquist, & Geoff Gaberino at ISHOF 2022
Mary T. Meagher, Jesse Vassallo, Steve Lundquist, and Geoff Gaberino all made the 1980 Olympic team. We caught up with them at the 2022 International Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics.
SWIMTRAXX: Swimtraxx One is the smartest swim specific tracker. Track your time, heart rate, and stroke rate all from the same device.
INTL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: Help preserve swimming history by joining the 1 in 1000 Club!
VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results. Subscribe to the Swimnerd Newsletter.
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Oct 27, 2022 • 1h 7min
#282 Australian Olympic swim coach Ian Pope
Ian Pope is the Head Coach of the Melbourne Swimming Club. He is one of the most successful swimming coaches in the World having coached swimmers to over 70 medals at the Olympics, World Champs, and Commonwealth Games.
Including Matt Welsh, Michael Klim, Giaan Rooney, Grant Hackett, Marieke Guerher, Matthew Targett, Patrick Murphy, Koti Ngawati, Rachel Goh, Sam Marshall, Hadyn Stoeckel, and Italian swimmer Massimiliano Rosolino.
And, Brett Hawke!
00:00 Bratter PA Immigration Law
00:05 Hello Ian Pope!
02:45 Ian the musician
07:18 Stroke technician
13:08 Writing & training for individuals
19:10 Training schedules
23:45 SwimTraxx Swim Tracker
24:30 Practicing race simulation
28:10 Swimmer Coach Partnership
29:22 Brett at 2003 World Championships
34:52 Brett walking into practice
36:30 Liam almost drowns
38:30 Leukemia
42:08 Beine Genetic Sports Preformance
42:56 Swim Angelfish Adaptive Swim Lessons
43:35 The demands of being a swim coach
44:55 Crazy sets
46:45 Matt Welsh 400 Kick for Time
48:35 Memorable Coaching Moments
50:35 Writing swim workouts
53:45 Mentoring coaches like Jol Finck
55:10 State of Australian Swimming
57:00 Sunwoo Hwang
58:30 David Popovici
59:30 Melbourne
01:00:35 Staying motivated
01:03:00 Kids have changed
01:06:45 Swimnerd Live Results
Our Sponsors:
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics.
SWIMTRAXX: Swimtraxx One is the smartest swim specific tracker. Track your time, heart rate, and stroke rate all from the same device.
INTL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME: Help preserve swimming history by joining the 1 in 1000 Club!
VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results. Subscribe to the Swimnerd Newsletter.
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Oct 26, 2022 • 38min
#269 Cullen Jones talks sprinting, Marsh, Cielo, & MP
Cullen Jones is a 2x Olympian and 4x Olympic medalist (2 G, 2 S). Individually, he captured Silver in the 50 Free behind Flo Manaudou in 2012. He was also part of THE relay -- the one where Lezak caught Bernard and touched him out at the 2008 Olympics. That World Record is still intact.
Now a Senior Manager of Sports Marketing at Speedo, Cullen is enjoying retired life while raising his son alongside his wife.
00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
00:05 Hello Cullen Jones
00:30 Senior Manager of Sports Marketing
02:00 Cullen's Impact
05:00 Only black kid
07:45 Becoming a stroke clinician
08:45 Technical side of sprinting
10:00 Get excited about practice
11:05 Balance in sprinting
12:20 David Marsh
13:12 Beine Nutritional Testing
15:15 2008 Men's 4x100 Free Relay
17:50 Cesar Cielo motivation
22:30 How not to rev up
25:45 Strengths & Weaknesses
27:55 Kobe & LeBron
31:30 Swim Angelfish
32:10 Michael Phelps' professionalism
36:45 Global Swim Series
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SWIM ANGELFISH: Receive the tools and skills needed to teach swimmers with autism, physical disabilities, anxiety, sensory and motor conditions with Swim Angelfish, the global leader in adaptive swim. Get certified online today!
BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics.
VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!
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