Cameron McEvoy

Yeah

... you know, me compared to Cameron McEvoy.

I'm perhaps swimming a third as much again.

[laughs] Yeah.

And so we've been doing a bunch of power work, resisted, unresisted, trying to simulate that.

Look at Cam McEvoy.

His back and his armpits are dry that entire race, right? And so I'm like, all right.

He's swimming fast.

They always say, "You guys approach it from an angle I never thought of." Yeah, because...

But then when we have someone like Cam McEvoy or Ryan Lochte, like these big-name swimmers, they're speaking our language.

Yeah, we can actually talk swim- Yeah, yeah.

Right.

If it's not, like just like maybe like make some like dual meets or like long course meet where it's been.

Uh, and like looking forward, uh, I was, I was like talking with Cam McEvoy, so we like maybe we can like prepare together for the like this like World Champs, so it's like gonna be like pretty like hard too.

Sorry, what?

You were just-

Can you say... [laughs] Just, just, just shooting the breeze with Cam McEvoy.

Can you tell us a little bit more about that?

Uh, yeah, so we've been talking like, uh, I think after I won like 21 6.

I can't believe you just casually said that-

It would... 'Cause of course, yeah, if it's better for the sport, but the swimmers aren't going that fast together, so no coach is ever gonna do that.

But the best examples of this are, one, Cam McEvoy is the most extreme example.

He's known for he takes it to the absolute limit, focusing in just on the 50 and now kind of branching out into short course 100 training, and does everything focused basically all at max speed.

A h- massive emphasis on the weight room and pull-ups, weighted pull-ups, stuff like that.

And then I'd say the best program, 'cause that's him really narrowed in on that one training style and very specific to him.

I say the best example on an overall program level, which is maybe more relevant to the overall discussion because not everyone, not every team has the bandwidth to be that specific for one swimmer like Cam McEvoy, is the University of Virginia.

And this again is another example of, yeah, they swim fast all the time.

They're always going really quick, but they also have just ridiculous results at the end of the season.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, but going back to one of your old questions, are there five swimmers? Cam McEvoy is one.

I-

Um, Cornel?

So I gave myself like 12 weeks, 15 weeks to train for that, and started sprinting.

Not quite Cam McEvoy style, but very similar Cam McEvoy style.

I got a guy called Sonny Trigg to be my coach.

[chuckles] And, uh, I did his sessions, which was so nice to have someone coach me, and it was pure purpose.

Um, you know, we're limited by our tools, but our- we've got a, a lot more tools, um, and resources than maybe some other places have.

We're seeing athletes, of course, get dialed in, and then we have the most extreme example, which is Cameron McEvoy.

Love Cam.

Mm-hmm.