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Speaker 1: Hey there, you're listening to an extra special episode of

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Speaker 1: Healthy Ish, your podcast from Body and Soul. I am

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Speaker 1: Felicity Harley. Yes, this week we're celebrating our superstar Olympians.

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Speaker 1: We've got some really big names for you, and to

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Speaker 1: kick it off is perhaps one of the biggest. Arianne Tiitmas,

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Speaker 1: already an Olympic medalist of course, joins me on this episode.

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Speaker 1: Now keep in mind we recorded these before she flew

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Speaker 1: to Paris, actually before she even made the team, and

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Speaker 1: I asked her to share how she gets her mindset

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Speaker 1: ready to go for the biggest event of her life.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you're listening to extra Healthyish as well, where

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Speaker 1: she discusses how she stays true to herself with all

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Speaker 1: the pressure that surrounds her. You can grab that wherever

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Speaker 1: you get podcasts. Arianne, welcome to Healthy Ish and Well.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on representing US and champion US at the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. It's such an honor for me. I

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Speaker 2: feel representing Australia at the Olympics is definitely the pinnacle

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Speaker 2: of most sports and to be able to do that

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Speaker 2: and not just be at the Games, but hopefully be

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Speaker 2: fighting for some gold medals is really exciting. What does it.

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Speaker 1: Feel like to represent a country? I mean it's I

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Speaker 1: mean for me, it's just it must feel extraordinary. I mean,

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Speaker 1: is it a pressure, is it an excitement or how

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Speaker 1: does that feel for you?

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Speaker 2: Well, I remember the first time I represented Australia and

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Speaker 2: it's this incredible sense of pride. I think wearing our

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Speaker 2: colors and knowing that you've been selected with the task

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Speaker 2: as being one of the best representatives to do a

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Speaker 2: job in the pool is really special. But it kind

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Speaker 2: of it sounds bizarre, but everything's relative in your life.

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Speaker 2: And when I was twelve years old, national age was

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Speaker 2: the biggest thing for me, whereas now going to an

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Speaker 2: Olympic Games is relatively my goal. But you know what

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Speaker 2: I'm striving for in my life right now, So it's

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Speaker 2: really bizarre. I think when you're living in this world,

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Speaker 2: you don't really realize how incredible these opportunities are. I

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Speaker 2: think once I finished me and look back on it,

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Speaker 2: I'll realize how special this moment in my life is.

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Speaker 2: But I just think the most incredible sense of pride

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Speaker 2: is what I feel at represent our country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting you say that because I have heard

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Speaker 1: a lot of athletes say that you're just kind of

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Speaker 1: focusing on the next thing, and for you that's a goal,

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Speaker 1: whereas you know, the rest of us are like, oh

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Speaker 1: my god, that's an amazing goal, and you're just like, well,

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Speaker 1: it's just the next one in a list of you know, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not being so blase about it, but just tick

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Speaker 1: it off, tick it.

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Speaker 2: Off, yeah, yeah, box ticking.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I mean that's not to undervalue it, of course,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I appreciate where you're coming from. What is

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Speaker 1: what does the training look like when you're going into Olympics?

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Speaker 1: I mean, what do you you know, a week or

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Speaker 1: two beforehand, what are you doing in the pool?

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Speaker 2: A week or two beforehand? Is really the point where

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Speaker 2: physically you can't really do anything to make yourself perform

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Speaker 2: better or anything to make yourself perform worse. I think

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Speaker 2: in the pool at that point, it's really about sharpening

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Speaker 2: your toolboxes such more so fine tuning little things. We

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Speaker 2: do what's called tapering, so your workload drastically drops from

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Speaker 2: what you've been maintaining for such a long period of time.

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Speaker 2: So it's really about getting the body ready to go.

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Speaker 2: But I think the one thing that can really make

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Speaker 2: final two weeks. I think that you can be prepared

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Speaker 2: physically the best that you possibly can. You can do

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Speaker 2: a truckload of work for months and years out from

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Speaker 2: a games with every aspect done perfectly or as close

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Speaker 2: to perfect as possible. But if you really haven't got

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Speaker 2: your mind switched on or in the right mindset to compete,

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Speaker 2: it can really undo everything, which is crazy to think about,

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Speaker 2: but power of the mind is incredible and I think

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Speaker 2: definitely after competing at you know, the highest level in

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Speaker 2: sport for many years now, it definitely comes down to

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Speaker 2: that in the in the final, in the final moments.

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Speaker 1: So how do you get your mindset in check? Like,

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Speaker 1: what what do you do? I mean, you've had experience,

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Speaker 1: I suppose, thankfully you've been to one before and come

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Speaker 1: home with metals. So how do you go into into Paris?

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Speaker 2: Well, for me, I think you have to have that

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Speaker 2: utmost confidence and belief in yourself to be able to perform,

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Speaker 2: and for me personally, the only way to do that

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Speaker 2: in the pool, to stand behind the block with a

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Speaker 2: sense of pride, knowing that I've turned over every stone.

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Speaker 2: I think if I second guess myself, you can't really

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Speaker 2: stand behind the block knowing that you've done everything you can.

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Speaker 2: And so there's so many aspects that go into training

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Speaker 2: that people don't realize the amount of staff around you

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Speaker 2: that play different roles. In swimming, there's actually a lot

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Speaker 2: of data analysis involved. Stroke efficiency skills, stroke count, breathing patterns,

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Speaker 2: underwater dives, turns skills. There are all aspects of your

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Speaker 2: training that you have to try and nail on top

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Speaker 2: of the grueling, thirty five hour a week training. So

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Speaker 2: you really want to try and know that you've done

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Speaker 2: all of that to the best of your ability and

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Speaker 2: then have the mental capacity to stand behind the block

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Speaker 2: and go, I've done everything I get can and if

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Speaker 2: these girls beat me, then they deserve to win. And

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Speaker 2: that's the way that I like to feel going into

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Speaker 2: an Olympete games.

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Speaker 1: That's really interesting. So you have data about basically every

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Speaker 1: single mini skill movement in your race that you can

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Speaker 1: look at analyze. I mean, does someone come to you

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Speaker 1: that way or do your turn this way or yep?

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Speaker 2: Pretty much I've worked with a couple of sports scientists

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Speaker 2: and their job is performance analysis, and they analyze every

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Speaker 2: race I do. Nick, who I work with, has been

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Speaker 2: my performance scientist since I was fifteen, So I don't

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Speaker 2: know how many races of mine is analyzed. But you

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Speaker 2: look at turn times, dive times, power to weaight ratio,

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Speaker 2: stroke efficiency, stroke count, velocity, all these things, because the

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Speaker 2: tiniest little, you know, tweak can be the difference between

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Speaker 2: a gold or a silver. And at this point or

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Speaker 2: at this level in assuming it's really those small things

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do, don't they. I mean, that's that's phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: I mean that we're this far. I didn't actually appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: All that goes into to what you deliver on the day.

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Speaker 1: What do you do the morning before the race.

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Speaker 2: I try to be as relaxed as possible. I try

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Speaker 2: to be just me and not think about the task

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Speaker 2: at hand. I really set an alarm. I try to

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Speaker 2: be quite awake before I race, so wake at least

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Speaker 2: three or four hours up before I'm due to race,

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Speaker 2: and just to have a normal breakfast, maybe some porridge

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Speaker 2: with fruit, think about some certain points in the race,

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Speaker 2: that I want to try and really nail, but being

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Speaker 2: end of the day, I'm doing something I love and

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Speaker 2: it's really just swimming, That's all it is. And I've

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Speaker 2: just got to go out there and swim. And if

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Speaker 2: anyone's prepared to do it, it's me. If I was

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Speaker 2: to get you to get up on the block and

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Speaker 2: Olympic Games, it'd be much harder than for me to

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Speaker 2: do it. So I really just try to think about

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Speaker 2: that in stage relaxed as possible, and try and take

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Speaker 2: everything out of the situation and not think about what

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Speaker 2: I'm actually doing. Just really think about swimming up and

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Speaker 2: and in those big moments, it's really just about bringing

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Speaker 2: yourself back to earth as much as you can.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, never see me on the blocks

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Speaker 1: up there, and you just said one thing that I

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Speaker 1: just want to pick up. Having fun. I think so

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Speaker 1: much is lost in sport. I mean I see it

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Speaker 1: with my own sons who made the state AFL team

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Speaker 1: the South Wales recently, and we just have to keep

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Speaker 1: reminding him it's also about having fun and coming back

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Speaker 1: to why you are doing what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. I started swimming because I loved it and

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Speaker 2: I still love it. I love the social aspect it brings.

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Speaker 2: I love what it feels like to push yourself every day,

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Speaker 2: and I love the feeling of racing and being and

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Speaker 2: a competitor. And that's why we do it really, so

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Speaker 2: you have to really enjoy those big moments as much

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Speaker 2: as you can.

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Speaker 1: Well, all the best and yeah, well go go a Wasie,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, unhealthy.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for liicity. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Takes a lot of self belief to well not only

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Speaker 1: be on the Australian swim team, but to swim an Olympics,

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Speaker 1: especially again. Yeah again. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chat.

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