GMM by @SwimOutletTV @SwimOutletGear 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 been pure fun — really a mental rest and refresh. That ended about a month ago when he started building his team. Dressel is 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, and it sounds like it’ll be more than what Kyle Chalmers is doing. And, because Dressel is so early in this process, he said it could change dramatically between now and U.S. Olympic Trials in June 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 championships 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. I pin him down on one max, his deadlift, which is impressive. There’s also a lot of nonsense in the podcast. It’s either the best or worst podcast interview with him I've done. You tell me what you think. Between his dog and rambling about his wispy mustache, it took us five minutes to get into a real conversation. 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 the interview, which is why I screwed that up. Swimming news courtesy of SwimSwam.com (https://swimswam.com) Click here to listen and subscribe on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3UGrNWoMK0RqWZCMbOwUPO?si=TeZ03KYLRbi7O6QJfWR6EA Click here to listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fish-out-of-water-the-swimswam-podcast/id1467108547 Click here to listen and subscribe on Podbean https://swimswam.podbean.com/ Click here to listen and subscribe on Google https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9zd2ltc3dhbS5wb2RiZWFuLmNvbS9mZWVkLnhtbA Follow SwimSwam on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swimswamnews/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/swimswamnews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swimswamnews/ This is a Gold Medal Media production presented by SwimOutlet.com. Host Gold Medal Mel Stewart is a 3-time Olympic medalist and the co-founder of SwimSwam.com, a Swimming News website. Opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of the interviewed guests do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs, and viewpoints of the hosts, SwimSwam Partners, LLC and/or SwimSwam advertising partners.