GAINswim’s Chris Webb & Vern Gambetta On What Good Dryland Actually Looks Like For Swimmers

About this episode

This episode features Vern Gambetta and Chris Webb discussing effective dryland training for swimmers.

In this GMM takeover of the SwimSwam Podcast we have Vern Gambetta, founder of GAIN (the Gambetta Athletic Improvement Network) and Chris Webb, Director of GAINswim. Vern Gambetta is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of functional sports training, a movement that helped shift athletic development away from isolated machine-based strength work and toward training the whole athlete.

People in this episode

Host: SwimSwam

Guests: Vern Gambetta, Chris Webb

Topics covered

• dryland training
• swimming
• athletic development
• functional sports training
• whole athlete training

Keywords

• dryland training
• swimming
• functional training
• athletic improvement
• GAIN
• swimmers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GAIN, GAINswim

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