

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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May 31, 2022 • 56min
Katie Hoff + Todd Anderson = Synergy Dryland
Katie Hoff is a 2x Olympic swimmer, 8x World Champion and 3x Olympic Medalist. Todd Anderson, her husband, is a former NFL fullback turned strength & conditioning coach. Together, they make up Synergy Dryland: world class dryland swim programming focused on making you faster.
"We offer customized dryland training for swim teams with an emphasis on periodization based on volume, time of season and age group. A big problem with swim strength training is it does not coordinate well with the training cycles. We will fully customize the teams schedule for optimal performance." - Synergy Dryland
00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
00:04 Michigan
01:20 Todd & Katie background
06:50 Nature vs Nurture
07:50 Surround yourself with the best
09:00 Cody Simpson
12:00 Starting a business
18:20 Synergy Dryland
21:12 Core stability
25:00 Sucking in the belly button
26:00 Language, communication, and analogies
27:45 Warm up
30:50 Female strength
33:00 Power vs Endurance athletes
35:25 Female body composition
38:45 Male insecurities
40:55 Men vs Women
42:45 Drylands during taper
45:10 Shoulder injuries
49:30 Supplements & Creatine
52:20 Diet & Nutrition
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BEINE WELLNESS BUILDING: Individualize your nutrition with genetic testing and personalized plans. Eat, supplement, and recover based on your genetics.
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SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results. Subscribe to the Swimnerd Newsletter at swimspam.com
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May 29, 2022 • 2min
Popov remembers a killer Gennadi Touretski workout
Why is it always the hardest practices that you remember the most?
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May 28, 2022 • 4min
Taper Blues with Caeleb Dressel
Ever get the taper blues? More proof that it does not matter how you feel in the water or during warm up. Everyone goes through this. Even Caeleb Dressel. Actually, Alexander Popov said he never got the taper blues. It never even crossed his mind.
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May 26, 2022 • 57min
#257 Caeleb Dressel on self-improvement, balancing stardom, World Records
Caeleb Dressel is the fastest man in the world. He's won 7 Olympic gold medals and thirteen (13) long course World Championship titles. He holds the Guinness World Record for Most World Records held by an individual.
We are 3 weeks out from the start of Fina LCM World Championships.
Enjoy!
00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
02:15 Lead up to Trials
03:45 New stroke technique
06:00 Trials prep/double taper
09:30 Taper blues
13:25 Sleep
14:55 Massage & acupuncture
15:08 Personalized nutrition
15:56 Adaptive swim lessons
16:32 Massage
18:05 Pressure, expectation, & balance
23:44 Inner circle
26:00 Caeleb the Competitor
28:00 PB or Win?
30:45 Breaking 21
31:30 Fred Bousquet, Cesar Cielo break 21
32:02 Vasa trainer
32:27 Power towers
32:45 50 & 100 Free World Records
37:22 200 Free World Record
38:35 Caeleb Dressel's Start
41:00 Anthony Ervin
43:30 Eamon Sullivan
44:45 Cam McEvoy
46:05 Australian women's swimming
47:10 Tattoos
48:45 Katie Ledecky
52:12 Any Question
54:49 Swimnerd
55:00 LA Olympics?
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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!
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 at swimspam.com
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May 25, 2022 • 3min
Drylands with Alexander Popov
What seperated Alexander Popov from the rest of the world? Physical conditioning. Drylands. You gotta get your 600 units in every day. Mix it up but get to 600 units! Popov also believes this was key to preventing injuries.
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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!
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 at swimspam.com
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May 24, 2022 • 13min
Dave Durden announces hiring of Matt Bowe
Introducing Matt Bowe, the new Assistant Coach of the University of California Men's Swimming & Diving team.
Matt Bowe is leaving Ohio State University where they have had tremendous success recently.
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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!
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 at swimspam.com
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May 23, 2022 • 38min
#256 Dean Farris on his Harvard career, the 200 Free, and Whoop
Dean Farris is a recently retired American swimmer and soon to be Harvard graduate. COVID allowed him to spend 6 years in college, graduating at 24 years old. He is the 200 SCY Freestyle record holder - 1:29.15. Dean currently works with fitness wearable company, Whoop.
00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
01:00 COVID year
03:20 Parents
05:30 Why Harvard?
09:55 History -Science major
11:15 Difficult to be a student-athlete?
14:10 Balance & Time Management
19:30 Retirement
22:00 Over analyzers
23:48 121.1
25:50 Go out fast
27:45 Whoop
34:00 Dean's future
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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!
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 at swimspam.com
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May 23, 2022 • 5min
Lifting, drylands during taper
DO NOT LOSE YOUR SPEED!!
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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!
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 at swimspam.com
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May 21, 2022 • 2min
What Kyle Chalmers learned getting 2nd to Caeleb Dressel in the 100 Free
A new fire has erupted inside of Kyle Chalmers. Getting touched out by Caeleb Dressel in the 100 Free at the Tokyo Olympics might just be the best thing for him. If he had won, he most likely would have retired. Instead, he's hungrier than before.
"I know exactly what to expect leading into Paris and I'm a more resilient, stronger, thicker skinned athlete that is completely focused on myself and my own performance rather than anyone else and I'm not going to let anyone or anything get in the way of that." - Kyle Chalmers
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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!
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 at swimspam.com
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May 20, 2022 • 4min
Importance of Core Strength for Swimmers
Dan Daly views core training all the way around -- including your back.
"It's really looking at it 3 dimensionally..." - Dan Daly
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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!
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 at swimspam.com
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