

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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Jul 29, 2022 • 33min
Family man Ryan Lochte on positivity, underwaters, Phelps & Marchand
Ryan Lochte is one of the greatest Olympians in the history of the world. He captured twelve (12) Olympic medals and 39 World Championship titles. His 200 IM from 2011 is still the World Record today.
Today, Ryan is a proud husband and father of two beautiful children.
00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
00:05 Being a Dad
02:35 Swimming now?
03:35 Global Swim Series
06:05 Autographs
08:20 Most Memorable Race
09:40 200 IM World Record
10:00 Weakest Stroke
12:50 Michael Phelps
15:26 Competitors but friends
18:05 Going to the well
19:30 Memorable practice set
23:10 Leon Marchand
25:05 Long Course 200 IM
26:49 Practicing underwaters
28:30 University of Florida Swimming
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Jul 27, 2022 • 4min
The X+Y+Z Set
Answers can be found on the Any Question app. Download it here.
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Jul 25, 2022 • 57min
#263 Katie Robinson talks trailblazing in coaching + Duel in the Pool
Katie Robinson is the Director of Swimming at Northwestern University where she leads both programs. Coach Robinson was just named to her first Team USA coaching staff, being named an Assistant Coach for the Duel in the Pool.
Northwestern qualified 15 athletes (9 Women, 6 Men) for NCAA Championships last year. The Women finished 18th, the Men 32nd.
Her coaching experience prior included positions at the University of Pacific, Rutgers, Virginia, and Tulane where she got to learn from some of the best coaches in the world.
As an athlete, she swam at Texas where she was a 3x Big 12 Champion in the 200 Fly.
"There's plenty of head coaches that are men that coach women's programs and there's no question about can they handle a women's program so I'd love to change the narrative..of course women can coach men... " - Katie Robinson
00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
00:05 Congrats Katie Robinson
01:00 Katie the Swimmer
02:30 Recognition
05:00 Trailblazing
07:30 Stereotypical doubt
09:00 Men vs Women vs Combined
11:15 62 athletes + 5 coaches
12:00 Running a business
13:45 Athletes not buying in
16:57 Beine Wellness Building
17:45 Swim Angelfish
20:00 Hard job
24:00 Relationship first
25:45 Learning how to swim fast
29:00 Training Plan
31:15 Connecting with each athlete
34:00 XYZ practices
38:30 Innovating & Learning
39:45 Personal fulfillment
42:20 Get curious not furious
46:15 Vulnerability
51:00 Pushing boundaries
53:15 Duel in the Pool
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VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
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Jul 25, 2022 • 6min
Training speed endurance for the 100 Fly
Trying to improve your endurance in the 100 Fly? Here are some 100 Fly speed endurance sets from the world's best swim coaches including Richard Quick (ala Brett Hawke), Mel Marshall, Michael Bohl, James Gibson, and Kim Brakin.
Answers can be found on the Any Question app. Download it here.
Thumbnail courtesy of Mike Lewis!
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Jul 21, 2022 • 1h 2min
#262 Chris Webb on the athletic development & physical literacy of swimmers
Chris Webb leads GAIN Swimming. GAIN Swimming instills, "a culture of daily physical preparation that grows & nurtures adaptable swimming athletes who understand the wisdom of their bodies, its ability to self-organize and solve movement problems." They are the sport's top dryland program in America.
Chris was a coach for many years with experience at the University of Pittsburgh (his alma mater), Carmel Swim Club, Carmel High School, SwimMAC, and T2 Aquatics.
00:00 Bratter PA Immigration Law
00:05 Hello Chris Webb
02:50 Athletic development for swimmers
04:30 Swim like you walk
05:00 Bill Boomer
08:40 Your relationship with the water
13:45 Coaching the whole person
16:05 Vern Gambetta Method
21:20 GAIN Swimming
27:30 Coach Parent Education
32:25 The Separator
36:20 Crazy parents & coaches
42:15 Never follow a legend
48:00 Parenting
54:00 Information overload
58:00 Stop reading swimming
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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!
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Jul 21, 2022 • 4min
How is China so dominant in diving?
China swept all 10 events at Fina World Championships earlier this month. What makes them so dominant? Pei Lin explains her theory on perfection vs. professional.
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Jul 18, 2022 • 40min
#261 Cal's Head Diving Coach, Pei Lin, discusses mindset, recruiting, Chinese domination
Pei Lin is the Head Diving Coach at the University of California. As an athlete, she was a 3x NCAA runner up at the Miami University (Ohio) as well as a Chinese national champion.
In our first ever diving interview, Pei discusses...
*the competitive mindset that she is looking for in a recruit
*how the Chinese are dominating the sport (they just swept a perfect 10 out of 10 events at World Championships)
*all about Cal Diving
00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
00:05 Hello Pei Lin
02:00 How Pei got into Diving
06:45 Talent & Passion
07:50 Beijing Olympics
08:40 What makes China so good at diving??
12:06 Sarah Bacon
14:36 Psychological factor
15:50 Flow state in diving?
16:50 20 hour framework
18:15 Why diving?
19:40 Nutrition
20:55 Coaching styles
21:00 Why America?
24:40 Recruiting Chinese athletes
27:30 Cal Diving
29:10 What are you looking for?
32:00 Making that RIP sound
33:20 Diving injuries
34:00 Pei Lin's signature dive
34:50 Competitive mindset
35:38 Best Divers in the World
37:05 Best Countries for Diving
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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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Jul 15, 2022 • 3min
WHY YOU NEED TO RACE MORE
Michael Klim once had the goal to race 150 times in a single season. In this clip, the Olympic Champ explains why racing is the best swim training.
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VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
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Jul 14, 2022 • 4min
Straight Arm Freestyle Technique with Michael Klim
Michael Klim discusses his straight arm freestyle technique and how it came to be.
He talks about a few drills that helped manifest his new, innovative stroke.
Freestyle with a fly kick. Freestyle with a fly kick with head up. Straight arm freestyle. Straight arm freestyle with head up.
"That's another lesson for younger swimmers out there is to just try things in training because you just never know, you might revolutionize swimming or you might invent a stroke that could work for the rest of us better than anything else." - Michael Klim
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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!
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Jul 13, 2022 • 3min
The defining moment of Michael Klim's swimming career
Michael Klim was ranked #1 in the 200 Freestyle going into the 1996 Olympics. He failed to make the Finals.
Klimy then stopped trying to swim like Alex Popov and began to build his own stroke.
He innovated swimming with his beautiful straight arm freestyle technique and finishing his races with a dolphin kick into the wall.
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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!
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