

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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Apr 30, 2022 • 1h 9min
USA Swimming World Team Trials Day 4 Finals LIVE: Ledecky breaks 4 mins
Brett & Nate watch swimming.
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Apr 29, 2022 • 2min
Caeleb Dressel 100 Fly Race Analysis
Caeleb Dressel won the Men's 100 Fly at USA Swimming World Team Trials. Here's some expert analysis from somebody who really knows swimming. Somebody that intimately understands the 100 Fly...
Tom Shields!
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Apr 29, 2022 • 1h 37min
USA Swimming World Trials Day 3 Finals: Hunter Armstrong breaks the 50 Back World Record!
Brett & Nate watch USA Swimming World Trials Day 3 Finals.
00:00 Hello Nerds
11:00 Women's 400 IM
26:00 Tom Shields!
33:00 Men's 400 IM
41:47 Women's 100 Fly
49:56 Men's 100 Fly
57:52 Women's 50 Breast
01:08:00 Men's 50 Breast
01:17:00 Women's 50 Back
01:22:00 Men's 50 Back
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Apr 27, 2022 • 15min
Caeleb Dressel 100 Free Race Analysis
Caeleb Dressel won the Men's 100 Free tonight at World Champ Trials in 47.7.
He's got a bit of a different stroke. Brett breaks it down.
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Apr 27, 2022 • 53min
USA World Trials: Ledecky fastest in 4 years 8:09.2; Dressel 47.7 wins 100 Free
Brett & Nate watch Day 1 Finals of USA Team Trials LIVE!
Just a few swim nerds watching swimming. Come watch with us!
Prelims Recap from the Swimnerd Newsletter. Subscribe here.
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Apr 25, 2022 • 35min
#250 Wayne Riddin on South African swimming, Matt Sates, & the Midmar Mile
Wayne Riddin is an Olympic swim coach from South Africa; coach of the Seals Swimming club in Pietermaritzburg. You might be familiar with one of his star pupils, Matt Sates, who just won the 500 Free at NCAA's in a 4:06. He's put a South African on every Olympic team since 1992.
Wayne is also well known and respected throughout the open water world, as he is the race director and organizer of the aQuellé Midmar Mile in South Africa, the largest open water swim (20,000 swimmers) in the world.
00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
00:50 Wayne Riddin background
02:00 South Africans in NCAA
03:05 Matt Sates
06:45 Rocco Meiring
09:15 Funding improvements
13:00 Talent in RSA
15:00 South African coaching philosophy
15:45 Coaching education
19:05 Rocco Meiring
23:00 Weight of expectation
25:30 Midmar Mile
33:00 2022 Plans
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Apr 24, 2022 • 12min
All things Backstroke with Emily Seebohm
Emily Seebohm talks all things backstroke.
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VASA: Essential dryland for stronger, better, faster swimmers. Save 10% using the code "brett" at checkout!
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Apr 22, 2022 • 12min
How to apply strength & conditioning to high-performance swimming with Paul Talty of Swim Ireland
Special Episode! A reading from Bill Bell.
Paul Talty of Swim Ireland shares his article that discusses the What, Why, and How of applying strength & conditioning (aka drylands) to high-performance swimming. This includes a unique insight into how Paul sets up the strength & conditioning program for some of Ireland’s top swimming talent.
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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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Apr 21, 2022 • 39min
#249 The first German to break 48 in the 100 Free LCM: Rafael Miroslaw
Rafael Miroslaw is finishing up his Freshman year at the Indiana University. He just broke the German National record in the 100 LCM Freestyle at the Berlin Open (47.92).
At the 50, Rafael posted a PB (22.89). He came home in 25.03. He also dropped a couple seconds to go a best time in the 200 Free (1:46.0).
Now, it is on to World Championships in Budapest and Germany as a whole is riding high.
00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law
00:04 Hello Rafael Miroslaw
00:30 1st German under 48
01:30 3rd taper = best time
02:00 Injured this season
03:00 Missed Olympics
06:10 Injury advice
07:45 Kicking for 2 months
08:45 John Long Jr.
11:35 Training differences
15:20 Swimming Idols
15:50 Jo Schooling
17:25 Next step
19:55 Zach Apple
20:45 Nutrition
21:25 The Rainbow Set
23:00 Believing in myself
24:30 100 Free Breakdown
27:00 World Champs
29:30 German swimming
31:00 200 Freestyle
32:00 Germany's 4x200 Free Relay
33:00 100 or 200 Free
36:30 Dressel, 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!
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#swimming #freestyle #germany

Apr 21, 2022 • 2min
Federica Pellegrini's 200 Free Race Strategy
Matteo Giunta gives us an inside look into the race strategy of Federica Pellegrini.
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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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SWIMNERD: Big and small digital pace clocks, virtual scoreboards, and live results.
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