5-Hour Daily Workouts: Inside the World of Elite Swimmers with Steve Hasty

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Steve Hasty, a swimming expert, joins Joe De Sena to give us a behind-the-scenes look at the world of competitive swimming. As a former elite swimmer and the owner of Swimming World Magazine, Steve really knows his stuff when it comes to this sport.

Steve explains the intense training regimen of elite swimmers, noting that even high school swimmers can train up to 5 hours per day.

They discuss the mental toughness and resilience required to maintain such a grueling schedule and achieve success. Drawing from his own experiences growing up with a tough swim coach, Steve offers some great advice on developing a consistent routine and mindset to overcome obstacles, whether in swimming or in life

Highlights:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Demanding routine of high school swimmers
02:33 Mental resilience of swimmers
03:30 How big is the swimming community?
05:02 A narrow path to the top
06:29 The importance of body type
07:00 Michael Phelps’s and his success
09:08 Lessons learned through swimming
12:05 The power of routine and discipline
15:00 The Swimming World app

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Website: www.swimmingworldmagazine.com

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0:00.0	My brother and I both had a national record.
0:04.3	Driving in a cold car at 5 in the morning headed to swim practice with your dad isn't always fun,
0:10.2	but there was some payoff to it. the life lessons that you learn from all of that
0:16.7	carry with you forever. We both learned a lot and it really made us who we are today.
0:21.2	Welcome to the Hardway Podcast with Joe the Senna, founder and CEO of Spartan Races.
0:27.0	We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million
0:32.1	plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course.
0:35.2	With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts from every corner of the world.
0:39.6	Get ready to elevate your life today. Chosha Center here, CEO and founder of Spartan, as well as the host of the Hardway
0:48.5	podcast. I got my buddy Steve Hastie on. He is all things swimming.
0:53.6	He was a swimmer, his dad was a swim coach.
0:56.2	He owns a swimming magazine.
0:58.2	He makes metals in his spare time for swimmers.
1:01.0	Like this guy is, guy is basically a dolphin.
1:04.0	Welcome aboard Steve.
1:06.0	It's good to be here.
1:08.0	So swimming I'm really like when I heard that I get to talk to somebody like in that space all day every day.
1:14.8	I gotta say they are pretty tough people.
1:18.4	I mean how many hours a day for it to be an elite swimmer even at a high school
1:21.9	level how many hours a day you're putting in?
1:23.2	Oh I'd say even at for an elite level high school swimmer you're looking at at least
1:28.8	five hours a day you've got a morning workout, afternoon workout,
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