Uh , well , overall , you'll , uh , do great with , uh , schoolwork and , uh , whether that's training in the weight room or even in the pool . Yeah , with my training regimen I really focus on , uh , recovery is really big . Um , I try and , uh , get good hours of sleep at night , um , be diligent with my fueling after and before practice .
I mean , something that I've really implemented was . Uh , fueling during practice , uh , being able to have something to snack on right before or even during practice , uh , has helped my performance a lot , um , and then just recovering after practice , like doing the right stretches and , uh , eating a lot of protein and carbs after practice , I , I think I've seen , uh , a big difference in my training recently I've been having a lot of applesauce . Um , I think the apple sauce is just a good source of quick carbs , uh , before practice , and then , um , just some of the complex carbs like eating the pastas and the rice and all that , um , to have that long term energy storage I think is really helpful .
um I mean we're spending 20 plus hours a week together and being able to have someone to train with and push you constantly it's uh that's super nice and and then just working with the coaches on tech technical stuff and um . Uh , refining the fine details of my stroke has , has really been helpful kind of early on when I started swimming , I , I was good , but I , I wasn't like at the top necessarily and then , um , kind of COVID hit and then I , I stopped swimming for a little bit and I , I took a little break , but then when I started swimming again I really like fell back in love with the sport and I , um , I really worked really , really hard and . And I started seeing times that I was like yeah man like these this is realistic like I could go to trials I could win uh win state and national level meets so um just uh keep working day in and day out like that was something that I just had to stick to and trust the process with Olympic trials , the way that it goes is there's time standards .
Yeah , with my training regimen I really focus on , uh , recovery is really big . Um , I try and , uh , get good hours of sleep at night , um , be diligent with my fueling after and before practice . I mean , something that I've really implemented was .
Most recently , uh . About two months ago I fractured my wrist and I um I was out swimming for 3 or so weeks and uh that was a big mental block for me because I just got to school and I really wanted to compete in in the meets and compete in practice but I was unable to um but then having the the staff here helped me through stuff um and then the coaches helping me like get get through um . What I need to with what I could do was was super helpful and I just , I just needed to trust that everything would be fine and and the thing that helped me the most was it was just the beginning of the season so I didn't need to worry about it too much and um I definitely wouldn't take the experience back for anything .
