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

5/28/20261 hr 13 min

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.

Clips

Core Strength Secret Revealed
Stop Beating Swimmers Up
Dryland’s Real Purpose
‘We’re Terrestrial Beings’
Shoulder Pain Starts At Hips
Warm Up To Swim

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First 90 seconds

  1. Mel Stewart· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] I'm Mel Stewart and this is a GMM Takeover, the SwimSwam podcast. Joining me today, Vern Gambetta, founder of Gain Swim, and Chris Webb, the director of Gain Swim. Gain is Gambetta Athletic Improvement Network, and Vern Gambetta is the founding father of functional sports training. For swimming, that means developing qualities like body control, mobility, coordination, posture, trunk stability, power, and movement efficiency. For most of us, this type of training was underdeveloped, and something happened during the pandemic. During this moment when everyone was out of the pool and dry land was all we had, we saw swimmers who got the correct functional training come back stronger and faster than ever. Today, we hope to gain some insight into why that happened. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Vern Gambetta and Chris. How you doing, guys?

  2. Chris Webb· Guest0:49

    Very good. How are you? Great. Thank you.

  3. Mel Stewart· Host0:52

    This, I, I always like to do podcasts in, in this area because this is... You know, my career fell over a time period in the '70s, '80s, and the early '90s when we were, we were doing what the football team was doing.

  4. Chris Webb· Guest1:05

    Yep.

  5. Mel Stewart· Host1:06

    And I don't know that that was the best thing for, for us as a sport.

  6. Chris Webb· Guest1:09

    Yeah.

  7. Mel Stewart· Host1:10

    There were a lot of injuries. I don't know if it was good- There's a lot of teams still doing that.

  8. Chris Webb· Guest1:14

    [laughs] So, uh, yeah, that's why we're trying to do what we're doing. Yeah. Yeah.

  9. Mel Stewart· Host1:18

    Well, well then let's begin at the beginning. In plain English, what is Gain Swim?

  10. Chris Webb· Guest1:24

    In plain English, what is Gain Swim? Now, Gain Swim is an offshoot of

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