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Off The Blocks USA Trip Episode 2 With Herbie Behm

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1. Off The Blocks Swimming Podcast speaks live from the 2025 Asker World Clinic with Arizona State head coach Herbie Behm about coaching, clinics, and swimmer development. 2. Herbie Behm is the guest and Arizona State head coach, and the host frames him as one of the sharpest minds in swimming. 3. The episode asks what a coach with ASU, Swim With Herbie, and international clinic experience actually takes from conference learning. 4. Herbie says he enjoyed presenting because he had freedom to talk about something he had never discussed deeply before. 5. He describes the altitude at the clinic as a factor that forced a 25 on 35 set to be changed to 45 seconds. 6. He says he swims at least a couple times a week and prefers swimming by himself rather than in groups. 7. He says training with 60 people across four lanes made the morning feel like a meet warm-up and reminded him what swimmers experience. 8. He says an NIL talk at the clinic stood out because many college coaches were thinking about how the system is shaping everything. 9. He says his best note-taking moments came from Michael’s talk and from the conversations people have after presentations. 10. He says a thousand-plus people in one place creates a unique environment for learning, coffee chats, and casual coaching discussions. 11. He says meeting Ernie McGlish go after the talk was memorable because Ernie had watched the presentation and described similar career drift. 12. He says conferences can confuse coaches if they start copying other plans instead of trusting what they know best. 13. He says that same tendency appears at World Championships training camps when coaches compare notes and start second-guessing. 14. He says he got into coaching as a swimmer who already wanted to coach around age 14. 15. He says his early coaching mind was shaped by frustration with his own college swimming, where he got slower despite much harder work. 16. He says that frustration pushed him into physiology texts, track-and-field reading, and a decision to ignore swim coaches at first. 17. He says he later learned to look for similarities between what he thought was wrong and what was actually working in other programs. 18. He says resisted work, race pace, and overspeed are all about training the nervous system and expressing force in specific patterns. 19. He says the episode sounds like a technical interview with a calm pace, practical examples, and a lot of coaching detail. 20. He says swimmers, coaches, and anyone interested in ASU, Bob Bowman, or Leon Marchand will get the most from it.

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