Ilaria Bianchi: 15 years on a world-class level

I am excited to share with you a conversation with the strength and conditioning coach of Russian national swimming team, working with some of the stars (Kliment Kolesnikov and Anastasiya Shkurdai to name a few) of Energy Standard ISL team, Daria Stratilatova - https://sushareshaet.com/

(00:31) Firstly I would like to talk about your story, so tell me where are you from and how did you get to the position you are now?

(01:36) What do you love the most about your job?

(03:52) Where do you find inspiration? Who or what inspires you?

(05:08) How different is physical education in Russia compared to other countries?

(08:18) Dryland training is now the main focus of many swimmers around the world, who has limited or no access to pools. What things have you found helpful during COVID to maintain strength and fitness?

(12:24) Do you feel like this is the year of a radical shift in a way we train?

(15:31) What are some of the key ingredients of a great swimmer from your perspective? What makes a difference?

(18:28) What should be swimmers working on more?

(19:46) What are the most common injuries in swimming and how to avoid them?

(21:39) What is the most underrated and the most overrated exercise/movement for swimmers?

(24:08) What is your approach to recovery? Do you use mind training tools in your training like meditation or visualization?

(26:38) How do you structure a season?

(28:56) What is the key to strength and contitioning preparation of sprinters and long distance kids?

(35:42) Tell me something more about your new project https://sushareshaet.com/

Let's connect

I Daria on instagram: @stratilatova

I Swimvenue on instagram: @swimvenue

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Today’s episode is a an inspirational talk with the Olympic champion in the 100m freestyle from Rio 2016, Kyle Chalmers.

(01:01) How are you spending these days?

(03:02) What do you love the most about swimming?

(03:58) What is your favourite pool in the world?

(06:22) Have you always dreamed of becoming the world-class swimmer? What was your motivation to start?

(08:51) What are the specifics of early age training in Australia?

(12:13) When did you realize that you want to do swimming on the highest level?

(24:51) Did you watch this year’s ISL races? How do you like the format?

(27:26) You won the Olympics at a very young age and it definitely changed your life. What are you grateful for and what did learn on this journey?

(16:45) How is it like to be the Olympic champion in Australia?

(18:01) What was your mental state at the 2016 Olympics and how do you deal with all-eyes-on-me situation now?

(20:35) What is your approach to mental training, meditation and visualization?

(22:29) What are some of your tools to stay calm before racing?

(23:21) What has been your most memorable race and what is the story behind? Was it the Olympic final?

(29:12) What is your strongest asset as the world-class 100m freestyler? What is your biggest swimming strength?

(30:05) How do you divide/structure your season prior to Tokyo Olympics?

(33:08) How do you keep yourself healthy throughout the year?

(33:53) What is the key to success in 100m freestyle from your perspective?

(34:45) What is your piece of advice to a young swimmer?

(35:34) What are you passionate about beside swimming?

(38:48) What are your future plans? Do you sometimes think about life after swimming?

Let's connect

I Kyle on instagram: @kyle_chalmers3

I Swimvenue on instagram: @swimvenue

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Today's quick episode is one of my favorite parts from the interview with Brett Hawke - former world class freestyle sprinter and one of the best and most innovative coaches of this era. We discussed sprint swimming and Brett disclosed the key to success in sprinting and his favourite sprint specific sets.

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I Brett on instagram: @hawkebr 

I Swimvenue on instagram: @swimvenue

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Today’s episode is a great inspirational talk with the world-class breastroke swimmer from Brazil, Felipe Lima.

(01:37) How has Felipe spend the covid time and how was his training like during these times?

(06:02) We spoke about his beginnings to the sport of swimming.

(08:56) Felipe spoke about the most inspirational people in his life.

(09:48) Did he choose breastroke, or did breastroke choose him?

(10:54) What is Felipe's biggest strength as the world-class breastroker?

(17:50) Where do he find inspiration?

(20:03) How has his training changed since 10-15 years ago?

(21:55) What is his approach to recovery?

(24:05) Last year he swam his PB in 50 breastroke 26.33, the 2nd fastest 50 breastroke in history. What went right compared to other races? What was different?

(30:57) Does he feel any pre-race pressure?

(38:54) How does his usual training week look like?

(41:42) Felipe's piece of advice for somebody, who wants to improve his or her breastroke?

(42:35) His favourite swimming pool in the world.

(44:19) What are Felipe's future plans? Would he like to stay connected to swimming?

Let's connect

I Felipe on instagram: @felipelimasw

I Swimvenue on instagram: @swimvenue 

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It was a great pleasure to have a conversation with former world class freestyle sprinter and one of the best and most innovative coaches of this era, Brett Hawke.

Brett told me the reason why he loves the sport of swimming (00:52), we spoke about his beginnings to the sport (01:43), and the best advice he ever received as a young swimmer (03:14). Brett told me where all his creativity comes from and where he finds inspiration (05:18) and about the most memorable race in his coaching career (06:40). I asked Brett what does the Olympic Games mean to him and how he deals with all the pressure around (08:15) and then we discussed the differences in training now and back in times when he was competing against the best in the world (11:35). We spoke about the reason why was the last world record in 50-800 LCM freestyle broken in 2009 (14:03) and then we jumped to Brett’s coaching career (15:49). He mentioned the differences between good and great swimmer (19:36) then we discussed the sprint swimming, where Brett disclosed the key to success in sprinting and his favourite sprint specific sets (21:36). The conversation continued to the important aspect of training, to mental preparation (26:12) and Brett’s favorite training and racing pools (27:54). We spoke about marketing and discussed how is the social media going to change the landscape of professional sport (29:58), what recent technology is helping the swimmers to train more effectively (33:26) and what he loves to do beside swimming (34:16). In the end of the episode Brett told me about his present work in Fitter & Faster camps and his future plans (35:19).

Let’s connect I Brett on instagram: @hawkebr I Swimvenue on instagram: @swimvenue I Thank you very much for listening. If you loved the episode, please leave a review on your favorite platform. Message me anytime and let me know what you think.

I am specially excited to introduce you to my today’s guest of the Swimvenue podcast, one of the world’s best swim coaches and legendary swimming commentator from Brazil, one and only, coach Alex. Alex told why he loves the sport of swimming (05:00), we spoke about his beginnings to the sport (06:58), and his story of becoming a coach (07:46). Alex told us about his unique coaching proposition (11:38) and about the most memorable race in his coaching career (13:49). We discussed the difference between art and science of swimming (17:04) and his perspective on mental training (18:36). Alex spoke about the key to success in swimming (22:00), the differences between good and great swimmer (24:06) and told the story of his team, Davie Nadadores (25:29). We then jumped to his journalism career and Alex told me what he loves the most about this work (37:32) and we discussed the popularity of swimming in his home country, Brazil (41:46). We spoke about the most interesting things about the swimming sport for TV spectators (45:53) and how can he feel the emotions and live the story of an athlete while commentating (51:16). Alex spoke about the first swimming olympic gold medal for Brazil in 2008 (52:10) and about his favorite swimming venue in the world (55:52). Alex told his predictions for Tokyo 2021 (57:39) and predictions for the first swimmer to break the 20 second barrier for the 50m freestyle (01:06:21). In the end of the episode we spoke about marketing and discussed how is the social media going to change the landscape of professional sport (01:13:20) and in (01:23:35) we wrapped up the conversation. Let’s connect I Alex on instagram: @alexpussieldi I Swimvenue on instagram: @swimvenue I Thank you very much for listening. If you loved the episode, please leave a review on your favorite platform. Message me anytime and let me know what you think.

I am excited to share with you this conversation full of positivity, hard work and inspiration, I had with great sports photographer and an amazing person, Mine Kasapoglu. Let's connect I Mine on instagram: @minekasapoglu I Swimvenue on instagram: @swimvenue I Thank you very much for listening. If you loved the episode, please leave a review on your favorite platform. Message me anytime and let me know what you think.

Today’s episode is a great inspirational talk with the world-class backstroker and amazing coach from Brazil, Nelson Silva. We spoke about his beginnings to the sport of swimming (00:53), the story of how he started swimming backstroke (07:40), Nelson shared his insights on swimming technique (13:54), and Dave Salo’s way of coaching (15:20). Nelson spoke about the most inspirational people in his life (18:32) and shared the key to success in backstroke swimming (22:34). Then we opened a very interesting topic and discussed what are some of the health indicators to watch in order to stay healthy and to not overtrain yourself (24:25) and Nelson’s approach to supplementation and nutrition (28:10). Nelson mentioned his most memorable race as a swimmer (32:41) and then we shared our thoughts on a race-day pressure (45:05). We talked about his coaching beginnings (50:45) and his unique coaching proposition (55:00). We spoke about swimmers mindset (57:56), about meditation (01:01:35) and how the current situation in the world will change the world of swimming (01:03:18). Nelson told me about his favourite pools around the world (01:06:12) and the hardest swim set he has ever swum (01:09:36). In the end of the conversation Nelson spoke about his travel experience and what destinations he would love to visit (01:10:40). Let's connect I Nelson on instagram: @nsilvajr I Swimvenue on instagram: @swimvenue I Thank you very much for listening. If you loved the episode, please leave a review on your favorite platform. Message me anytime and let me know what you think.

Today’s episode is an interview with the head coach of Azura Florida Aquatics, amazing and hard-working person, Gianluca Alberani. We spoke about his beginnings to the sport of swimming (01:05), the story behind his first US visit (09:32), differences between training in US and Italy (11:21), art and science of coaching (20:50), we spoke about his team at Azura Florida Aquatics (22:56), we discussed the current situation in the world (27:30), Gianluca told us about his unique coaching proposition (35:14), about the most memorable race in his coaching career (42:00), then he gave us some real behind the scenes insights into the Olympic Games experience (43:39) and his perspective on mental training (51:46). Gianluca spoke about the most inspirational people in his life (55:02), about his favorite training and competition pools (59:56), about his future goals and in the end of conversation, we talked about traveling and dream destinations. Let's connect I Gianluca on instagram: @azurafloridaaquatics I Swimvenue on instagram: @swimvenue I Thank you very much for listening. If you loved the episode, please leave a review on your favorite platform. Message me anytime and let me know what you think.

It was a great pleasure to have a conversation with Italian world-class swimmer Ilaria Bianchi, on the first ever episode of Swimvenue podcast. We spoke about her beginnings to the sport of swimming (01:28), about Ilaria's way to Tokyo 2021 (03:20), we discussed the current situation in the world (05:12), Ilaria spoke about individual, who has been the most inspiring for her (08:06), about motivation to swim on a world-class level for such a long time (09:00), her insights of ISL experience (11:27), how has her training changed since junior years (12:59), dealing with pre-race pressure (13:59), what does she love the most about swimming (15:15), what has been the most memorable race (15:35), the story behind her world champion title (16:53), transition from junior to adults (18:46), experience of the Beijing Olympics (19:57), what is the key to success in butterfly (20:54), how is it to compete against Sarah Sjostrom (23:53), favorite training and competition pool (26:08), what is the fastest pool in the world (27:34), Ilaria's favorite activity outside of a pool (29:13) and what is her dream travel destination (32:13). Let's connect I Ilaria on instagram: @iaiabianchi_ I Swimvenue on instagram: @swimvenue I Thank you for listening. If you love the episode, please leave a review on your favorite platform. Message me anytime and let me know what you think.