How Sean Kao Built ASP: From a Parents' Garage to Training the World’s Best Swimmers | Ep. 291
4/9/20261 hr 1 min
In this episode of the Social Kick Podcast, we sit down with Sean Kao, the founder and mastermind behind Aquatic Sports Performance (ASP). Sean has revolutionized the way elite swimmers approach the weight room, training some of the fastest athletes on the planet, including Caleb Dressel and Michael Andrew. Sean takes us through his journey from being a sprinter at Arizona State University under the legendary Bob Bowman to building a world-class training facility from a garage.
We discuss his "Rate Limiting KPI" philosophy, the reality of "neural load" in sprinting, and the grit required to build...
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[upbeat music] I got a chance recently to visit Aquatic Sports Performance, and I popped in to see Sean and his group, and he hosted me on his podcast, the Pursuit Potential podcast. We flipped the script, and he comes and joins us, and we get to dig into a little bit about what his background is on strength training and swimming from his days as a swimmer at ASU to building a program. And it's fun to dig into the journey that he's been on as an entrepreneur to build a strength and swimming-focused program where seeing an opportunity where one didn't exist and thinking that the swimming world needed that, combining his background to bring it to Aquatic Sports. And now, you know, many years later, building this business from the ground up with his brother, Sid, to have,