Swimmer Garret Weber-Gale On Olympic Gold, Healing High Blood Pressure & Haute Cuisine

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Rich Roll

Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2013

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

2-time Olympic gold medalist. Member of the 2008 Beijing Olympic 4×100 freestyle relay that will go down in history as one of the greatest moments in Olympic history. American record holder. NCAA Champion. And the first American under 48 seconds in the 100 meter freestyle. Garrett Weber-Gale, one of the world's most decorated competitive swimmers, joins the podcast to talk with Rich about elite performance, professional athleticism, life (and food) at the Olympic Training Center, how he healed his high blood pressure with better nutrition, and his passion for fine cuisine cooking, quality eats and helping people. NOTE: I am well aware that the audio on this Skype interview is less than ideal. Issues with Skype not picking up my (Rich's) microphone properly. Apologies. Again, I'm a newcomer at all this and can only promise to have it dialed in better next time. Thanks for understanding (& try not to hate). SHOW NOTES * Garrett Weber-Gale Wikipedia * Athletic Foodie * Garrett in Sports Illustrated * Garrett Weber-Gale Credits Good Nutrition for Olympic Gold * Garrett on Twitter: @GWeberGale Want to be inspired? Watch below as Garrett & his boys Michael Phelps, Cullen Jones & Jason Lezak do their thing in the 4×100 freestyle relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Greatest. Olympic Moment. Ever. HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE PODCAST? 1. TELL A FRIEND! (Self-explanatory) 2. SHARE ONLINE! (Also self-explanatory) 3. SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW the show on iTunes, Stitcher and Soundcloud and TuneIn. 4. DONATE: Check out the DONATE button on the right hand margin or click HERE to learn more. We even accept Bitcoin! 5. DOWNLOAD THE NEW MOBILE APP! Now you can access, stream, download and share the entire RRP catalog in the palm of your hand on any iOS mobile device (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) with our new mobile app. Never miss an episode, plus special announcements, discounts, giveaways. Already downloaded? Awesome. When you have a minute, and it feels right to you, do us a solid and give the app a review in the iTunes Store.

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0:00.0	Yeah, buddy. Today, the podcast, welcome back. Thank you for stopping by and listening episode
0:19.2	10. I can't believe we're already on our 10th episode. I feel like we just started this.
0:23.3	Well, we did just started actually. It's brand new and we are still trying to find our way
0:29.5	through this and learn how to do this right. So forgive any amateur mistakes or audio recording
0:35.6	problems or anything like that. We're doing the best we can and we're heading back from Hawaii
0:40.3	to Los Angeles in about five days and when I get back to LA, I'm going to have some new studio equipment
0:46.8	and I'm going to try to notch things up in terms of production value and quality and all of that.
0:51.7	So thanks for bearing with us through this early phase. So today, very, very exciting guest on the
1:01.2	show today. Very proud to have the phenomenal Garrett Weber-Gale on the show. Who is Garrett Weber-Gale?
1:09.5	Well, if you're a fan of swimming and Olympic swimming in particular, you've probably heard of Garrett.
1:14.8	I wouldn't say he's a household name, but if you follow this word of swimming, he's certainly a
1:18.8	celebrity in that world and beyond that, he's just a really fascinating, interesting, great young man.
1:25.7	And I was really excited that he was willing to come on the show and share with us today.
1:31.2	I've known Garrett for a couple of years. First got acquainted with him through Twitter,
1:36.7	which I love the fact that I met him initially through Twitter. And I've been following for some
1:40.8	time and he's really a remarkable kid. First and foremost, he is one of the world's most accomplished
1:48.4	competitive swimmers. One of the leading spring-free stars in the world, his accomplishments go
1:55.6	on and on. If you're not a fan of swimming, maybe that won't mean anything to you. And you might think,
2:01.5	well, I don't watch swimming or I've never seen this kid and I don't know anything about him, but
2:05.3	I almost guarantee you that you have seen him swim because almost everybody saw that relay in 2008
2:11.9	at the Beijing Olympics, the four by one hundred freestyle relay, the relay that included Michael
2:16.8	Phelps. And it was the relay against their arch rival, France. It was a very hotly contested race.
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