British Olympic champion and World Record holder Adam Peaty is on the move, currently making his way to Florida to take on an intense block of training.
‘Florida here we come’ is the sentiment accompanying Peaty’s Instagram story posted today, January 8th.
Speaking to SwimSwam, 27-year-old Peaty reveals he’ll be training at Deerfield and Pompano Beach Aquatic Centres for the next 3 weeks. Both cities are located within Broward County located in Southeast Florida just outside Fort Lauderdale.
“The purpose of the camp is to fast track fitness and get some sun as this is my first training camp since Australia in January 2020,” Peaty told us today.
After reaping repeat 100m breaststroke Olympic gold this summer at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, Peaty took a break from the pool and tried out the competition on the dancefloor instead. The father to son, George, tried his hand at the British celebrity dance television program Strictly Come Dancing, where he exited prior to the finale.
Post-television celebrity, Peaty and longtime coach Mel Marshall disclosed their latest project entitled ‘Project Immortal.’ The endeavor represents the pair’s quest to throw down a 100m breaststroke marker that will not only lower the World Record but establish a benchmark to stand the test of time.
Imagine being so full of yourself (or perhaps insecure) that you feel compelled to announce a 3-week block of training. Never really heard that from Phelps or Ledecky.
he’s marketing himself. He’s getting followers. I don’t see the issue. He’s the 100 breast goat.
Eh have you heard of a thing called social media ( which Peaty uses quite a lot) so not that much fanfare about it AND heading off to train somewhere nice and hot for 3 weeks might be worth mentioning. Think your reading a bit too much into it mate!
Or Lebron the self proclaimed King…….Oh wait, his arrogance or insecurity had an entire ESPN special about ‘The Decision’.
I recall Phelps and Bowmen talking about going to high-altitude camps. It isn’t that big of a deal. People are interested.
Imagine being so full of yourself (or perhaps insecure) that you feel compelled to announce
your disdain for every other thing a swimmer does/says.
Dude, you literally took your screen name from hammering Shields dying all the time only to go “oops” when he came out that he had contemplated suicide. You had a field day commenting on his PanAms performance, so grow the f up.
I didn’t get the name from Shields, I got it from myself, and I wasn’t even on the PanAms recap, check for yourself… again, you’re the one who’s actually throwing childish insults to a ton of swimmers, so I’m not the one who needs to grow up.
Every champion is moving in Florida these days..
Interesting choice with the state of covid in Florida. Is there still a 14 day quarantine for going into Australia? Feel like that could have been a better option.
Not if you’re vaccinated and covid is everywhere here now that the border is more open.
7hr travel time Vs 24hr travel time probably swung it. I’ve flown to both places from the UK and Australia knocks you for six for a good few days, which is hardly ideal when you’re on what will be a really heavy workload camp.
Covid is everywhere. Minus well just stay in your basement
Minus well?
Arno Kamminga will be a world champion this year in the 100 breast.
To be fair, Kaminga, Peaty, Wilby and Shymanovich are all 26/27/28. If i were to guess anyone to start to seriously catch Peaty it would probably be Martinenghi.
*Emre Sakci has entered the chat*
You mean the guy who is significantly worse at the 100 than the 50, as well as significantly worse LC than SC?
He hasn’t got a hope of beating Peaty.
He’s still very good at the short course 100:
1 55.28 SHYMANOVICH, Ilya
2 55.41 PEATY, Adam
3 55.56 FINK, Nic
4 55.61 VAN DER BURGH, Cameron
5 55.63 MARTINENGHI, Nicolo
6 55.74 SAKCI, Huseyin
Hope he packed some masks
He won’t need them in Florida, no mask mandate there
Also, the UK COVID situation is as bad as the US.
Relatively less cases and much less deaths as vaccine % is higher there
Have you seen what’s been happening in Florida? Like at all, since the beginning??
Fortunately my area of Miami is very good. In grocery stores it’s at least 85-90% mask usage. The percentage drops somewhat in places like Home Depot or Target but you’re still surprised if you see someone without a mask. However, when I visit other areas of the city it’s runaway ignorance. But not close to when I visited Orlando for Thanksgiving. Nobody there seemed to give a flip.
pathetic