Swimming talk from inside the lane lines.
Inside with Brett Hawke follows the sport of swimming from the lane line to Olympic debates. Recent episodes move between coaching philosophy, Olympic event changes, AI performance tools, Enhanced Games questions, and long-memory conversations with swimmers and coaches.
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Inside with Brett Hawke is built for people who think swimming is more than splits and medals. The show lives in the conversations around performance: what coaches say to young athletes, how champions remember their careers, and why event changes can reshape a whole sport. Recent episodes range from sprint politics to AI, from team-building to old ASCA talks that still carry weight years later. It can be loose and joking one minute. Then it turns quickly into a serious discussion about standards, war, Olympic systems, or the pressure of becoming faster. The strongest episodes feel like listening in on a pool-deck circle after practice. There is banter, but there is also a constant search for practical truth. Sabrina Parr’s episode centers on demanding more from athletes and accepting that a harsh message can still be a useful one. The Emma Egelstrom conversation looks backward at Olympic memory, Swedish swimming role models, and the strange distance between a former swimmer and the life that made her. With Andrii Govorov, the show steps into the charged terrain of Enhanced Games, Olympic TUEs, personal reinvention, and a country at war. The AI episode with Jonti Skinner and Kirk Grant brings the sport’s next performance frontier into view, especially race analysis, cataloging information, and keeping swimmers fast across changing programs. The Don Swartz episode reaches into coaching history and treats the Quantum Leap talk as something worth recovering, not just archiving. The Paris preview and LA 2028 sprint discussion show another side of the feed: a rowdier group dynamic where Olympic formats, 50s of stroke, and sprint specialization become cause for celebration. The show is not polished into distance. It stays close to the people who make the sport run. Sponsors, gear, nutrition, dryland, and coaching tools appear because they are part of that ecosystem. The result is a specialist swimming show with real range. It respects history. It follows controversy. It gives coaches and athletes room to explain how belief, structure, data, and daily standards become performance.
Made for: It suits competitive swimmers, swim coaches, performance staff, and serious fans who want detailed conversations about training, racing, coaching culture, and Olympic debates.
What sets it apart: The show combines insider access with practical curiosity, moving easily between sprint-event advocacy, archived coaching wisdom, athlete memory, and current performance technology.
Take an intimate look inside the minds of swimming's highest achievers with one of the world's best swim coaches, Brett Hawke.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded swimming discussion about organizing coaching knowledge and race analysis for future AI use.
The episode frames artificial intelligence in swimming less as a flashy breakthrough than as a practical knowledge problem: how coaches and athletes can keep useful performance information organized as swimmers move through different programs and coaching relationships.
A coaching conversation about fit, old ideas, and swimmers finding the right path.
The piece frames swimming as a question of fit: the host and Don Schwartz revisit the old Quantum Leap talk, then move through training, communication, goal setting, and the idea that a swimmer who likes games may suit water polo better than lane work.
A 100-day sprint that turns repetition into patience and purpose.
Sam Hoekstra's 100-day challenge gives the conversation its structure, and Brett Hawke keeps returning to the numbers that make it tangible. Hoekstra starts at 22 seconds, works into the 21s, and plans to map the full progression when the run is complete.
Swimming talk with meet-level detail.
Masha Gessen narrates her own cousin's murder-for-hire arrest and custody battle.
Rich Roll interviews recovery and endurance guests, plus 'Roll On' segments with Adam Skolnick.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Rhonda Patrick translates NAD, vitamin D, and coffee research into daily health protocols.
Sam Hoekstra, a 33-year-old high school and club swim coach in Michigan, embarked on a 100-day experiment to swim a 50 freestyle all-out every single day.
Brett Hawke interviews Hall of Fame coach Don Swartz, revisiting his groundbreaking 1983 'Quantum Leap' talk on swimming performance.
This episode features an interview with swimmer Mollie O'Callaghan discussing her coach's protective approach to media interactions and training focus post-Olympics.
This episode discusses Day 4 of the USA Olympic Trials, focusing on swimmers like Jack Alexi and Erica Biney, and features an interview about genetic testing for athlete performance and nutrition.
Brett Hawke interviews Don Schwartz about the 1983 ASCA presentation that introduced his "Quantum Leap" ideas for swimming performance.
Inside with Brett Hawke features Andrii Govorov, the 50-meter butterfly world-record holder, explaining why he joined Enhanced Games after weighing the Olympic path against athlete support and long-term security.
Brett Hawke and his panel celebrate the addition of 50-meter butterfly, backstroke, and breaststroke events to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
Sabrina Parr tells Brett Hawke how a coach’s command to “go be a dog” helped her run a 2:07 800 meters after receiving a relay baton in 14th place.
This episode features an interview with Swedish Olympic swimmer Emma Igelström, discussing her swimming career, reflections on the Olympics, and her current work helping transform swimming in Saudi Arabia.
Inside with Brett Hawke #415 features Jonty Skinner and Kirk Grand discussing how AI could change swimming performance, coaching, and race analysis.
This episode previews the Paris swimming scene with discussions on personalized nutrition through genetic testing and comprehensive dryland training programs for athletes.
This episode features an interview with Jeff Dugdale, Director of Swimming at Queen's University, discussing how to build a championship team and the success of his swimming program.
This episode features an interview with Coach Michael Collins discussing sprint training techniques and individualized approaches for masters swimmers.