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Swimming Mental Training with Leon Marchand and Bob Bowman
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- Published on Nov 16, 2025
- Swimming mental training is 70% of my performance: Léon Marchand.
Swimming superstar, 4 time 2024 Olympic Gold Medalist Leon Marchand and his legendary swimming coach Bob Bowman, renowned for his role in shaping the careers of many Olympic champions, most notably Michael Phelps, discuss the role of Leon's Mental Health in his rise to the top of the Swimming/Sporting World with his swimming mental training.
These are clips from Episodes 126 and 187 with Leon Marchand and Bob Bowman.
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Bob Bowman + that other one…it’s a duo or a trio to be right.
Great point!
It is very interesting. Thank you. However, Léon Marchand would not be as successful without Bob Bowman.
Agreed, Bob certainly has played an integral part!
@SocialKickSwimIntegral ? Integral means a 100% part, that’s untrue like Léon is saying !
@danielpierre3161 "Integral" does not mean 100%. An integral part is something that is essential or necessary to a whole. For example, someone is an integral part of a team if the team would not function without them. See dictionary. So Bob Bowman and mindfulness exercises are both integral to Leon's success along with other things.
I don't agree, they have good coaches in France, if Marchand came to the United States it's simply to be confronted with a lot of good swimmers in university competitions, which he can't get in France because the French population is 6 times smaller and there are not enough good level swimmers who compete regularly like in the United States. It is therefore not a question of trainer...but of means and contexts. Moreover, Marchand still retains his French coach today who coaches him in the same way as Bob Bowman even if it is the latter who coaches him on a daily basis because the French coach does not live in the United States.
What athlete would?