Cool interview. I think Adam really hits the nail on the head when he mentioned some of the issues with the drop off rate in swimming. I know so many people (here in UK) who gave up and quit because they got burnt out from the sport, as well as adults who now have so many shoulder problems from the quantity over quality approach given to kids
Great interview! My son is 14 years old, and starting to focus more on breastroke. Swim training is deffinately a grind. Like you Adam mentions, you need to keep your focus and know what drives you
Thank you Fares and Adam for this great interview! I've been a longtime fan of Mr. Peaty, but didn't really know him. Now I can say I admire his achievements AND his purpose, who he is outside of the water. Very inspiring!!🤩
Thank you for a great interview. In my experience many swimmers stop because it is tough to swim in shared lanes with men who have bad technique (I spent Christmas with a bruised cheekbone), there is no concept of improving nor learning from experts, and children’s swimming classes and acqua-fit take up a lot of space and make the changing rooms crowded. Many parents see learning to swim as being like learning to drive : get the license and that’s it. I also see many training sessions for younger children which are so dull and don’t build a lifelong long love of the water and the need to keep healthy.
04:57 An 8 year old doing 10 hours a week! Sure he may break every age group record up until 12 but would he still be in sport at age 14? What do swimmers gain training at 6am that they wouldn’t otherwise gain at 6pm? Swimming needs a major reality check before it can ever be seen as a commercially viable sport for passionate & talented kids.
Fares/Adam, The drop out rate, from competitive swimming, in the UK (and further afield) is down to several factors: - career prospects in swimming. Prize money is poor and career length, short. - people focus on university/further education over swimming. - clubs not having squads for high performance once you hit 18 years old. In effect, one has to leave the club and be left to your own devices. - the lack of centres for adults where you could train intensively, with dedicated coaches and no ‘leisure’ swimmers in the way. - Having to hold down a job and train super early. - Yet to be proven but removing 50m races at major champs in the 13/14/15/16/17 ages, having to qualify via the 100, ceases to make it fun for some. - swimming is an expensive sport. Costs my son £8,000/year to be in it.
Thank you both soo much for this, a pleasure to watch and absolutely fantastic content! Interesting about purpose, in my own world, it's less about high performance and more about small, personal, low performance goals and the love of the sport; Feel, both physical and mental, are often the drivers for getting in the water and thus, the purpose. Cheers guys!!
The funny thing about all of these interviews and documentaries on Olympic swimmers is that it seems that they all say that they were afraid of water when they first started swimming.
Grdat talk! The number of adults I hear saying they dont swim now because they were sick of it. I completely agree that under 16 you are overtraining kids.
Spot on Adam, swim because you enjoy it first 🙌🏻👍🏻 Children should not be swimming excessively (my club promotes 9sessions for the youth performance team) and made to do early mornings 👎🏻
Adam Peaty talks about drop off in the later teens. One way to address this is by having a professional swim league where swimmers are paid good money for swimming. To illustrate my point, look at how much a dart player earns for a single match. Luke Littler already has match money of over a million pounds in around a year and he's only 17. If they are professional swimmers they should be getting money from swimming not coaching or losing. Footballers may do this as part of a contract but their primary focus is on playing their sport and getting money from this.
Woah Adam Peaty 🤩 you’re really hitting the jackpot with these interviews now bro
Cool interview. I think Adam really hits the nail on the head when he mentioned some of the issues with the drop off rate in swimming. I know so many people (here in UK) who gave up and quit because they got burnt out from the sport, as well as adults who now have so many shoulder problems from the quantity over quality approach given to kids
I am so glad that I got to meet you ( fares ) and Adam Peaty!! It was amazing.🤩
Hi Fares please consider making a swim rap with the chorus having water is 800x more dense than air
😂
Thanks for this amazing interview! What an amazing human Adam is! ❤
He truly is a champion in and out of the pool. Happy Swimming!
Great interview! My son is 14 years old, and starting to focus more on breastroke. Swim training is deffinately a grind. Like you Adam mentions, you need to keep your focus and know what drives you
Thank you Fares and Adam for this great interview! I've been a longtime fan of Mr. Peaty, but didn't really know him. Now I can say I admire his achievements AND his purpose, who he is outside of the water. Very inspiring!!🤩
Really good interview, Adam is a great guy and swimmer. Swimming needs more people like Adam.
Great interview Fares with a great Olympian. Really informative.
Thank you for a great interview. In my experience many swimmers stop because it is tough to swim in shared lanes with men who have bad technique (I spent Christmas with a bruised cheekbone), there is no concept of improving nor learning from experts, and children’s swimming classes and acqua-fit take up a lot of space and make the changing rooms crowded. Many parents see learning to swim as being like learning to drive : get the license and that’s it.
I also see many training sessions for younger children which are so dull and don’t build a lifelong long love of the water and the need to keep healthy.
04:57 An 8 year old doing 10 hours a week!
Sure he may break every age group record up until 12 but would he still be in sport at age 14?
What do swimmers gain training at 6am that they wouldn’t otherwise gain at 6pm?
Swimming needs a major reality check before it can ever be seen as a commercially viable sport for passionate & talented kids.
Fares/Adam,
The drop out rate, from competitive swimming, in the UK (and further afield) is down to several factors:
- career prospects in swimming. Prize money is poor and career length, short.
- people focus on university/further education over swimming.
- clubs not having squads for high performance once you hit 18 years old. In effect, one has to leave the club and be left to your own devices.
- the lack of centres for adults where you could train intensively, with dedicated coaches and no ‘leisure’ swimmers in the way.
- Having to hold down a job and train super early.
- Yet to be proven but removing 50m races at major champs in the 13/14/15/16/17 ages, having to qualify via the 100, ceases to make it fun for some.
- swimming is an expensive sport. Costs my son £8,000/year to be in it.
Completely agree with every single point you have mentioned in relation to UK swimming.
Excellent interview !
Adam Peaty has great wisdom. I hope he breaks his world record one more time before he retires. OBS: Interestellar is my favorite movie to.
Fabulous interview - thank you! Really cast Adam in a totally different light for me from the personality you see in the pool.
Incredibly pleasant to watch!
Great interview ☺👍
We love swimming very much! ❤🏊
💯great video Fares
Thank you both soo much for this, a pleasure to watch and absolutely fantastic content! Interesting about purpose, in my own world, it's less about high performance and more about small, personal, low performance goals and the love of the sport; Feel, both physical and mental, are often the drivers for getting in the water and thus, the purpose. Cheers guys!!
Fares, excellent questions 👏 brilliantly interview as not many people ask about details. Cheers
Kitsilano Pool in Vancouver has a couple 130m lanes. An exhibition race would be fun to watch.
The funny thing about all of these interviews and documentaries on Olympic swimmers is that it seems that they all say that they were afraid of water when they first started swimming.
Adam Peaty is really GOAT.
Grdat talk! The number of adults I hear saying they dont swim now because they were sick of it.
I completely agree that under 16 you are overtraining kids.
Adam Peaty🎉🎉🎉🎉
Bolt is an example of this. how a 9-10 sec game he made so popular that the arena goes housefull just to watch him
Yo fares i got your autogrph at the abu dhabi swim for life i got the gold in 200 meters butterfly in the 12 years category
Awesome bro
Spot on Adam, swim because you enjoy it first 🙌🏻👍🏻 Children should not be swimming excessively (my club promotes 9sessions for the youth performance team) and made to do early mornings 👎🏻
Adam Peaty talks about drop off in the later teens. One way to address this is by having a professional swim league where swimmers are paid good money for swimming. To illustrate my point, look at how much a dart player earns for a single match. Luke Littler already has match money of over a million pounds in around a year and he's only 17. If they are professional swimmers they should be getting money from swimming not coaching or losing. Footballers may do this as part of a contract but their primary focus is on playing their sport and getting money from this.
Wow
Damn Adam is huge! Looks like he's twice the size of Fares. What are those, 22 inch biceps!
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Who knows of a good company that make prescription water-goggles covered by insurance?
Also make a movie about swimming. Voilà
Add gambling and betting
Great questions. But you look a little bit proud, maybe the next to be more humble.