How Does An Olympic Champion Train?
Courtesy of Sharon van Rouwendaal under French coach Philippe Lucas*. How does an Olympic 10 km marathon swimming champion train?
Through killer workouts at a killer pace at killer intervals with a killer mindset.
And occasionally a set of 20 x 200m butterfly.
“The first and last 200 in 2:28 and 18 others at 2:32 at 3:00…physically the hardest set I’ve ever done with Philippe Lucas,” described Sharon van Rouwendaal, the 2016 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim gold medalist from the Netherlands.
Follow her on Twitter at @SvRouwendaal and on her website.
* He was selected as FINA’s Open Water Swimming Coach of the Year for 2017.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Daily News of Open Water Swimming and founder of WOWSA. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010).
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