You may have seen video of the swimmer's viral stunt. It required the technique of an Olympic champion — and it didn't hurt to have short hair, either.
“The Got Milk team told me they were launching this campaign and asked if I’d be up for trying to something fun in the pool,” Ledecky told The Washington Post. “They kind of left it up to me to see what I could do. I said, ‘Let me get in the pool and play around a little bit.’ ”
Like everything she does in the pool, Ledecky made it look easier than it actually was. So how did she do it?If she had longer hair, it might not have been so simple. But Ledecky was able to stuff her hair inside a swim cap and create a surface just flat enough for the cup.She performed the stunt in late July and first tried it a couple of times with an empty cup before adding the chocolate milk. On the first take, she made it across the pool without spilling any milk.
Balancing a cup is actually a common training tool used by backstrokers, who position it on their forehead as they move across the pool.“It really helps with head position, keeping your head very still,” she said. “I really had to brace my core really hard. I could feel it afterwards. I had to be very smooth, and it just helps engage kind of your whole body.
While she wasn’t trying to generate much power, she took 36 strokes to cross the pool, which isn’t far off her usual number. Ledecky typically takes 38 to 39 strokes to swim the length of an Olympic-size pool. Perhaps most important, Ledecky wore fins and steadily kicked her legs the entire length of the pool, propelling her through the water but also keeping much of the most turbulent work far away from her head and the teetering milk glass.
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