A Hack to Get Your Best Times: All-Star Michael Dellanoce, EP 213

Get ready to elevate your swimming performance as we have a powerful conversation with Michael Dellanoce, a multiple-time All-American and all-star swimmer for North Carolina Masters. Michael shares his invaluable insights on approaching a long course swimming season and the key to achieving peak performance in master's meets.

Listen in as we discuss Michael's training regimen, how he balances his swimming career with his work as a software engineer, and who inspires him in the pool. Plus, don't miss the heartwarming moment when he talks about how diving in the water makes him feel. Tune in to this inspiring conversation and learn how you, too, can excel in your swimming career while keeping the joy alive!

Email us at HELLO@ChampionsMojo.com. Opinions discussed are not medical advice, please seek a medical professional for your own health concerns.

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Welcome to the award-winning champions mojo, hosted by two world record holding athletes and health coaches.

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Be inspired as you listen to conversations with champions and now your host, kelly Palace and Maria Parker.

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Hello friends, welcome to the champions mojo podcast.

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I am your host, kelly Palace, and, as usual, i am with my co-host, maria Parker.

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Hey Maria, hey Kelly, it's great to be with you here today.

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Yes, and Maria, this is a special edition of champions mojo from the pool deck and we have a Great interview for you today.

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It's brief, it's short, but it's powerful.

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Yeah, and we.

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I wasn't there, but I was able to listen to the interview and some great takeaways.

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Yep, we hope you'll stick around and catch the takeaways.

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And here we go.

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Here for another on deck inspiration at day two of the Nova Long course meet.

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We're this is the first chance me to the year and I'm with Michael Dela Noche, and Michael is a multiple-time all-american, meaning your number one in the nation.

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He's been an all-star, which means the most number ones.

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Be swim for North Carolina Masters right, and Michael is getting ready to swim today, first long course meet of the season.

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You're 39, you're at the top of your age group and you've accomplished a lot in swimming.

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What are you looking for at the top of your age group here this year?

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I haven't quite had the long course season that I want it yet, so I'm trying to fit a lot of long course meets in and just close out my 35 to 39 career before I go up to the next atrium and How do you approach a long course season where you're gonna swim a lot of meats?

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I focus on, not like distance, freestyle and distance I am, was, are like my strongest events and The way it works out.

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I just can't do all of those events.

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Who?

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won me.

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So I have to spread them out and I'm hoping to put up a good 400.

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I am today and then like later in the season all try for a 1500 and 800, but never in the same me, because It just doesn't worth me.

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Are you swimming the back-to-back 400?

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I am, and 400 free today.

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No, just 409 400 free.

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I'm gonna try in Atlanta in about two weeks.

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Oh, the rainbow Yeah that's not the rainbow me, okay.

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So what is your training like?

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How do you train for these longer, tough events?

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I do a lot of pace work.

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I don't like doing repeats of really long stuff, especially long course, and max out around like 300 yards meters, but I like doing a lot of 100s on the tight interval.

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Try to like descend through multiple rounds of that, yeah that's about it.

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I really hate the days where we come in and we have just it's all 25s and stuff like that.

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I just hear Two distance summers laughing at those workouts.

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How about?

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how many days a week are you swimming and are you lifting?

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just in general, we'll give us a little peek behind the curtain usually four days a week.

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Sometimes, if I'm feeling really good, i might throw another fifth workout in there and then the other three days of the week I'll lift, but I don't.

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I treat those more like recovery days.

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I'm not like lifting to get sores, just general Strength and injury prevention and stuff here 39.

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You're probably in the prime of a career.

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What are you doing for work and how do you fit that in with either family, work and all this swimming?

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Yeah, I'm a software engineer for a Medium-sized business in Raleigh and been there for about 10 years just the nature of software engineering.

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I'm lucky to have a lot of flexibility.

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I don't travel much, so it's pretty easy to have a nice consistent schedule in the pool, swim early in the morning And then work after that.

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Yeah, awesome.

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Anyone benefit of swimming and flow is in your life.

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I, so I train with Erica Braun.

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She's a great motivator with amazing what she said in the pool.

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And see, like the current batch of Olympians, i'm up watching what Leon Marchand is doing.

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Who else?

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Katie Ledecky human.

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It doesn't seem like it sometimes.

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And and, yes, she really seems to be like back in form, so I'm really excited to see what she does at Worlds and next summer here in Paris.

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Yeah, me too.

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Last question is When you dive in the water, or not necessarily in a race, but just what goes through your mind when you hit that water.

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I like that feeling of sliding through the water when it all just comes together Just, and that just makes me feel like a kid again in those summer league meets.

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Just less than 25s, and even though I just earlier said I don't like that.

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But yeah, that's beautiful.

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Alright, thanks for being with us.

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Thank you Stay tuned for the takeaways.

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And now the takeaways.

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Okay, maria, our takeaways for Michael DeLanoce.

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Now I'm going to go first, maria.

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I know that master swimmers that are listening want to be top 10.

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They want to do best times, they want to really swim fast.

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And Michael is so fast.

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And he touches on what I have learned late in my swimming master swimming career the key, which is specialized.

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So what happens in master's meets is they generally pack all the events into one day.

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So when we're adult athletes we get tired more easily, and so his key of specialized.

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So if you're a 100 free styler, for example, or if you're going free, you're best timing the 100 free and it's the fifth event lineup of the day for you, you're not going to swim fast.

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If it's even the third event or the fourth event, if you really want that top performance, that peak performance in the 100 free, it's got to be your first event And you may not swim until the last event of the meet, but then you're going to rock that one race And that is how you get your fastest swims is be rested and specialized.

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I loved that takeaway.

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Yeah, i did too.

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He'd obviously thought a lot about it.

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My takeaway is almost the opposite of that, because he said, in response to the question about how he feels when he dives in the water, one of the things he said is it makes him feel like a kid again, which brings the joy into it.

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And I love that, because I feel that way in my bike, like I'm a kid, and so I love the idea that when he's swimming he can recapture the joy, the lack of complication of life, everything that it means to be like a seven or eight year old.

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So that was beautiful.

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Yes, all right, maria, another great one in the books.

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Love you.

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Love you too.

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