By Gold Medal Mel Stewart on SwimSwam
This GMM podcast with Caeleb Dressel is wild. Ninety minutes of raw honesty, humor, and pure fun.
Dressel details how he departed the University of Florida pro group on great terms. He and coach Anthony Nesty are clearly very close. Dressel explains his new training team, headed by Steve Jungbluth at Sporting Jax Aquatic Club, with heavy strength support from Sean Kao at Aquatic Sports Performance.
My big takeaway was that Dressel’s training since the Paris Olympic Games has not been serious at all. It was a break, really a mental rest and refresh. That ended about a month ago when he started building his team. Dressel is now committed to his run at LA2028. His training will be dialed in. In terms of volume in the pool, it won’t be Cam McEvoy-lean (see podcast), and it sounds like it’ll be more than what Kyle Chalmers is doing (see podcast). Dressel details his training right now, but he’s so early in the process, he said it could change dramatically between now and U.S. Olympic Trials in 2028.
Events on the table so far: 50-100 free and 50-100 fly. Dressel does not like the 100 free, and he’s very vocal about his love for the 100 fly.
Dressel is free-form in the podcast, covering a lot of topics — some important, some not so important — but I had to ask the questions.
NCAA DI Championships? Dressel has not paid attention to the NCAA DI Championships format. I do my best to unpack it for him, and he shares his opinion on B-finals and conference champions automatically qualifying, which will mean leaving some faster swimmers off the NCAA DI championship deck.
Enhanced Games? This topic comes up organically, and Dressel has a lot to say about it.
Dressel’s vertical leap? Allegedly, it’s 42 inches. He sets the record straight.
Dressel’s deadlift? Dressel is powerful, and he does chase PRs when left to his own devices. I pin Caeleb down on one max, his deadlift, which is impressive. (Interestingly, Dressel hedged on telling me his max, mostly because he says Sean Kao does not measure success in the weight room via max PRs. According to Caeleb, Sean’s got him doing more swim-centric work in the gym that will translate more power to the pool. I’ll ask Sean to come on the podcast to explain this in detail.)
There’s also a lot of nonsense in the podcast. It’s either the best or worst interview with him I’ve done. You tell me what you think. Between his sister’s dog and rambling about his wispy mustache, it took us five minutes to get started. I cut that part out and put it at the end as a BLOOPER, but the last five minutes might be the most fun.
EDITOR NOTE: I said Leon Marchand broke a 200 IM scm record, 1:45. And I was so wrong. It was, of course, Hubert Kos’ 200 scm back. I was trying to glance at SwimSwam’s live recap of World Cup during this interview, which is why I screwed that up.
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