Propulsion Swimming Podcast

On this week's episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we are going to be joined by British Swimming Superstar, Rio 2016 Olympic champion, 100m Breaststroke World Record holder, and all-around Breaststroke King – Adam Peaty!!    We talk to Adam about the difficulties he's faced over the past year with the Tokyo Olympics being delayed, what he does to stay motivated while being so far...

In this week's episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we talk to Team Bath swimmer and Olympic Qualifier, Jacob Peters.   Jacob, who gained his Olympic qualification in the 100m Butterfly at the British Swimming Selection Trials, started his swimming career at Poole Swimming Club under coach Barry Alldrick and has since moved to Bath swimming under coach Jol Finck.   We discuss in t...

In this week's episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we talk to Derventio Excel Head Coach, Jamie Main.   Jamie, who has been working with Olympians and Paralympians for over 20 years, is very well known in the UK, having helped coach Rebecca Adlington at Nova Centurion, before coaching at his current club where he is swim coaching young up and coming stars in Mia Slevin and Jacob Whitt...

How Good Is British Swimming Right Now? In this week's episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we are doing our complete and comprehensive review of last week's British Swimming Section Meet, which acted as the British Trials to the Tokyo 2021 Olympics! We pick our team to go on the plane as of right now, pick out our favourite swims of the meet and give some way to early medal predictions!! S...

Who's Going to Tokyo 2021? In this week's episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we are doing our complete and comprehensive guide to next week's British Swimming Section Meet, which is acting as the British Trials to the Tokyo 2021 Olympics! We break down the selection policy, Olympic qualification standards, and of course, give our prediction as to which swimmers we are like to see boarding...

On this week's Propulsion Swimming Podcast we have teamed up with Youth Sport Nutrition to give young swimmers a basic guide to follow for their nutrition within swimming! We talk with head nutritionist, Emmy Campbell, about the do's and don't of swimmers diet, how to eat during a regular training day and what advice to follow over the course of a race day!! We also talk about the situations when...

We are joined this week's episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast by new British Record Holder, Luke Greenbank!! Luke talks to us about his experience of racing in the two covid secure meets at Manchester and that 200m Backstroke swim that helped him break James Goddard's 11 year old British Record!! We also talk about his strategy heading into British Trials, given that he has already been sel...

On this week's episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we chat with one of GB's most respected and accomplished swimming coaches, Russ Barber!!  Swim coach to over 100 GB international swimmers (junior + senior); including 5 Olympians, 1 Paralympian, 1 World champion,  and multiple British record-holders; Russ has seen it all.  We talk to him about his coaching philosophies, how...

Podcasting, Retirement and Advice We are joined on this week's Propulsion Swimming Podcast by Lauren Quigley and Jazz Carlin. The two former Team GB swimmers talk to us about their new adventure, The Honest Athletes Podcast, and life after retirement!! We talk about their careers as former elite swimmers, the tips and advice they would give to the next generation of swimmers coming through, and al...

Addressing the Dropout in Swimming On this week's Propulsion Swimming Podcast we discuss and address the reasons that many teenagers leave the sport when in reality their swimming journey has just begun! There are so many reasons that kids drop out of swimming. It could be a change in interests, clashes with a coach, burnout, job opportunities, and many more. For me, I struggled to understand with...

London 2012 Para Olympic Memories and Classification and Scoring Guidance  Jack Bridge joins us on this week's episode of the Propulsion Swimming podcast to help explain the classifications and points scoring system of    We also chat with Jack about his swimming career, living with Haemophilia, and Relive some amazing memories from the London 2012 Paralympics Games!! SUBSCRIBE ON Y...

MISM 2021 Debrief This week on the Propulsion Swimming Podcast we dissect last weekends Manchester International Swim Meet put on by British Swimming for the elite swimmers in the UK!!  We discuss the swimmers of the meet; looking at some amazing swims by Molly Renshaw, Abbie Wood, Joe Litchfield, James Guy and Ellie Challis; What this meet means for British Trials and review our own Live Str...

We build our very own world-beating swimmer  On this week's Propulsion Swimming Podcast we welcome back our resident coach Dan back to the show and have some fun building our Perfect Swimmer!! We break down what makes a perfect swimmer into 8 main attributes and then choose which current swimmer we would want to take and build into our Frankenstein Monster of a Swimmer!! SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE...

Injury Recovery and Career Lessons 3 time GB Olympian and Double Commonwealth Champion Hannah Miley joins us on this week's Propulsion Swimming Podcast!!   We talk to Hannah about her recovery from a long term shoulder injury and her journey back into the pool! She has plenty of tips that she's learnt during her time out of the pool and over her career that young swimmers are going to want to...

In this week’s Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we are discussing land training fundamentals with specialist swimming strength coach Dan Daly! With most of the swimmers in the UK still spending time out of the water we thought we'd chat to Dan about how to keep your dryland routine fresh and productive.  We talk about how strength training needs to be done in cohesion with your swimming and to se...

Training In Lockdown, Shifting Mindset and Embracing YouTube On this week's Propulsion Swimming Podcast we are talking to Junior Gold Medalist and up-and-coming GB sprinter Matt Richards!   We talk with Matt about what being allowed to train as an elite athlete during lockdown actually means for him and how he is not emotionally putting all his energy into one meet right now and enjoying the...

Welcome to the Propulsion Swimming Podcast. Kick back and join us as we celebrate the world of swimming every week! We will be showcasing all things swimming, ranging from swimming technique advice to discussing the latest news from pools and clubs around the world. Our primary aim is to bring swimming the coverage it deserves and also share our personal experiences and knowledge through our resid...

Breaststroke Advice, plus we talk ISL and Olympics!! For the final Propulsion Swimming Podcast of 2020 we are talking with German Superstar Marco Koch!!! Marco is a former world champion and world record holder in the 200m Breaststroke! Marco talks through with us all the tips he would give Breaststrokers out there, from not perfecting one stroke but finding a nice variety that works for you on an...

Super Suits and the Speedo LZR Challenge This week we are talking Caeleb Dressel, super tech suits and the Speedo LZR with Sonny Trigg, TheSwimsuitGuy!   With Caeleb Dressel world record attempt in the Speedo Lazer, Sub20in20 coming up this week we thought we would get the best swimsuit expert in swimming on the Propulsion Swimming Podcast to give us his thoughts on this Dressel Challenge!! &...

Challenge Daytona, Triathlon Training and Funding Kieran Lindars joins us on this week's Propulsion Swimming Podcast, to talk through with us his build-up and expectations going into Challenge Daytona this weekend! We talk with Kieran about how his preparations have been affected by COVID, especially with limited time in a swimming pool.  We also discuss what swim training he would regularly...

This Is The Future Of Swimming!! After 6 amazing weeks of racing in Budapest, the International Swimming League has come to a close. On this week's Propulsion Swimming Podcast we review the final and ISL as a whole.   We look back on our highlights of the final, what went wrong with London Roar, which swimmers impressed the most, and of course, we discuss just how good is Caeleb Dressel?!? &n...

Event by Event Guide to the International Swimming League Final in Budapest, 2020 This week on the Propulsion Swimming Podcast we are giving you guys the most comprehensive preview of the ISL Final out there!!   We break down each event, session by session, day by day and predict who we think are the names to look out for. We give our predictions and which world records might fall.   Doe...

That 400m Freestyle, Inside London Roar and ISL Final Preview Tom Dean of ISL's London Roar joins us on this week's episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast!   We talk through his epic 400m freestyle win in the International Swimming League's Semi Finals over Danas Rapsys; what his expectations were going into the race, the tactics he used, and how he's approaching his rematch in the final...

Time For Knockout Swimming!!! On this week's Propulsion Swimming Podcast we preview the up and coming International Swimming League semi-finals and we predict which teams we are going to see in the final!! Semi final 1 sees Energy Standard against London Roar, Tokyo Frog Kings and NY Breakers, while Semi final 2 consists of Cali Condors, La Current, Team Iron and Toronto Titans.   Who do you...

ISL Recruitment Process, Skills Base and Semi Finals  Toronto Titan's Jay Lelliott joins us on this week's episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast to continue our recent conversations on the ISL, International Swimming League.  We talk about what it's like being part of the expansion team, Toronto Titans; what expectations they have moving forwards into the semi-finals of the competit...