Kate Douglass won multiple gold and silver medals in swimming at the Olympics in Paris last summer. The 23-year-old American propelled herself to victory in the 200-meter breaststroke and a second-place finish in the freestyle with her ridiculously strong arms.
She is jacked!!
Although this should not come as a surprise for anyone who knows anything about swimming, her physique went extremely viral on TikTok. Douglass got all dressed up for date night and packed her guns.
Kate Douglass is an American star.
The former University of Virginia standout hails from Pelham and currently competes out of the New York Athletic Club. She swims in multiple events but the 200-meter breaststroke, 200-meter freestyle and the shorter medleys are her specialties.
Douglass won a bronze medal as a teenager at the Olympics in Tokyo. Paris was a much greater success.
Not only did Douglass win gold in the 200-meter breaststroke and the 4x100m medley, she finished as the runner-up in the 200-meter medley and the 4x100m freestyle. That list of accomplishments does not even include all of her 30+ medals at the world championships.
Needless to say, Kate Douglass is one of the best American swimmers in the world right now.
Hard work always pays off.
Douglass obviously worked extremely hard to get to where she is today— both in and out of the pool. Her workout routine is two-fold.
In the pool, she trains all four strokes with a heavy focus on technique, stroke count and race pacing. Dry land sessions emphasis core stability, leg power and explosiveness.
Kate Douglass’ workout routine prioritizes quality over quantity. It is a form of high-intensity, low-volume training that combines short, focused swim sessions under 5,000 yards with targeted strength training.
To say she is strong would be an understatement.
She needs a permit to carry those guns!
Swimmers are built different. I mean that literally and figuratively.
Douglass recently posted a TikTok video from date night with her boyfriend. It went extremely viral because of her arms. They are chiseled like a statue of a Greek god(dess).
The video racked up more than one million views because of her muscles. From that same night:
Don’t get me wrong. I was equally as impressed by Douglass’ arms as anybody.
However, this kind of physique is pretty standard for a swimmer so I was not quite as surprised as others. For example, here is how her guns compare to Gretchen Walsh:
They’re both yoked, but not in a weird way, and we love that for them. More importantly, we love that for the United States. The stronger Kate Douglass gets, the more we will get to cheer her on for gold! Or something like that.