To go behind the scenes at Nathan Adrian's Body Issue shoot, check out the full gallery of his photos. All of those things are things you look for in a swimmer. I have this long torso, I have super flat feet, I have pretty flexible shoulders. A ton of people ask me, "Hey, why did you choose swimming?" And my answer to them is usually, "Swimming chose me." A lot of that has to do with my body type. For someone as tall as I am, I have hyper-mobile joints.Ģ. I get my flat feet from my dad, but I get my mobility from my mom. I'm not quite as flexible as a ballerina, but there are some swimmers that are pretty darn close to that. So for us, kicking and being able to point your toe are huge. One of the reasons that it's harder for people to develop into great swimmers if they start swimming when they are a little older is because their ligaments are not necessarily as loose and pliable as they were before. Kicking your feet through the water day in and day out is huge in terms of developing that flexibility in your feet. And for jumping, it's kind of the same thing - you have to transfer a lot of energy through your foot onto your toe, and for me I don't really have an efficient medium to transfer that energy. Unfortunately for me, whenever I had to do land sports I wasn't that good I wasn't that efficient at running. Your arches are pretty elastic, so when you run you kind of store energy as your foot falls on the arch - as you push off the toe you use that stored energy to move you forward. When I get out of the pool and I walk on the cement, I make a full footprint. His feet are super flat, but also super flexible. Here are eight things we learned about Adrian:ġ. But, as Morty Ain discovered, the three-time Olympic gold medalist is still full of the unexpected. Subscribe today! And for more from the 2016 Body Issue, check out /bodyissue, and pick up a copy on newsstands starting July 8.įreestyle swimmer Nathan Adrian is used to showing a lot of skin in front of large crowds, so perhaps it's no surprise that he agreed to pose for this year's Body Issue. This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue 2016.
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