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Michael Phelps on Being Strong, Physically and Mentally | How I Got Here with Chris Paul

Mar 24, 2024
People are still dealing with this, especially children. Especially children, right? For example, kids are in school at home, doing everything on a computer and Zoom. What do you think can help these kids who are facing these different challenges? In my opinion, loneliness has hit us harder than anything over the last two years. And loneliness leads to depression, which leads to other things. So for me it's trying to do everything you can to have normality in your life. What does that look like? You know, I have no idea. You know what you're doing, right? In my case, I have three children, two of them are in school.
michael phelps on being strong physically and mentally how i got here with chris paul
I mean, I play golf. I feel at home. –Believe me, I know –I work from home. I don't travel anymore. How do you know? I live

here

, my family is in Los Angeles, so I understand. It's hard, but I think trying to find a routine, some kind of routine, is always important. And as athletes, it's something we know and do every day of our lives, but finding some kind of normal routine, because then you feel like yourself. Because the moment you start to feel like you are not yourself, you start to spiral. That's why I think finding ways to be your authentic self is a very important thing.
michael phelps on being strong physically and mentally how i got here with chris paul

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So self-care, right? I exercise every day, six, seven days a week. That's something I have to do for myself. I go and hit golf balls once or twice a week, I put my headphones on and just hit golf balls like I'm in my own world and sometimes I go swimming. But I need that to be the best father I can, to be the best husband I can. So, you know, we want to give ourselves a chance. So how can we give ourselves a chance? Yeah, let's, uh... Let's get into this range and see what that swing looks like these days.
michael phelps on being strong physically and mentally how i got here with chris paul
I like it. Yeah. You know, something I always wanted to ask you, I mean, are you used to it, but it seemed a little strange to me, right? So in some of your competitions or races, you have teammates, right? -Yeah. You have teammates. But then you can have a meeting w

here

the person who was just your teammate –Mm-hmm –You go against them. -Yeah. –I mean, we know –Is that weird? No, not really. Because you know, most of the time, like internationally, we use stars and stripes, right? So there are only two of us. So the possibility of us clashing is quite likely.
michael phelps on being strong physically and mentally how i got here with chris paul
Yeah, but it's still weird, but no, I mean, I think we can, we can put it behind us. And we know that when we step up, it's a business. It's competition, it's not that we don't like you, we just want to beat you up. But what about the children? How are they with the water? They love. Everyone loves it. Boomer is, Boomer swims butterfly and freestyle. Beckett goes underwater. And he is like our little dolphin. Boomer is five now, right? -Yeah. I can't wait until... I'm trying to think, when is Boomer going to realize who you are?
You know what I mean? I'm sure he knows about water or something, but he doesn't really know it yet, right? He calls me Aquaman. Everyone calls me Aquaman, but no, I don't, I don't think he fully understands it yet. And he always says, "Can you beat that person?" "Can you beat that person?" I will say: “Look, in the past, yes. Not anymore, though.” Man, this looks good. He feels much better in the sun. -Oh my God. Good vibes. Damn, you must live here or something. Shhhh A question I always ask myself is if you didn't swim, what would you do?
If I could choose anything, I would like to be a golfer just because I am obsessed with the game. We do that all the time. But really, if I had to pick a sport I was good at, I'd be a decent, decent baseball player. As a kid, he played catcher. He was always taking my mask off, so he broke it all the time. Baseball players get paid. They do it, salary cap or a lacrosse player. That's the other thing. -Lacrosse? I grew up on the east coast, so I played lacrosse. Oh man. So, yeah, I was a long stick middie and, um, and then when I was 11, my coach basically told me, no more and focus on swimming.
So, um, what's next? Besides me, do I hope to make this putt? I mean, the most important thing now is mental health. I want, I want to try to reduce the number of suicides as much as I can. There are too many people taking their lives and I want to help people who are suffering. When you have the opportunity to hear someone say that you changed and impacted their lives, that's probably even more rewarding than a gold medal now. It's the best feeling in the world. For me,

being

able to have people share their experiences, their moments, what they have been through, showing their vulnerability.
Oh my god, friend. You can't express it in words. It is the greatest feeling. The only thing I can say is that I encourage all people to communicate, to open up, to talk, to not bottle things up, not to compartmentalize, because those things just accumulate, they pile up on top of each other. . And before you know it, everything explodes. This is real. I say this firsthand because I know I was very good at compartmentalizing throughout my career and I can't do that anymore. This is real. Good. Oh man. I appreciate you. Safely. TRUE. Always. Definitely. Thank you.

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