Details of swimmer Cameron McEvoy’s brutal training program

AS he prepares for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, swimmer Cameron McEvoy’s partner has shared what the brutal average day looks like for the champ.

BEHIND swimmer Cameron McEvoy’s ambitions for gold is accepting a life of missing out.

Girlfriend Violet Atkinson, a Gold Coast lawyer who first met the freestyle swimmer when they were 11, says McEvoy’s background in physics means he’s left nothing to chance when it comes to swimming the perfect race at his home Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Champion swimmer Cameron McEvoy. Picture: Adam Head

“The sacrifices you have to make as a swimmer are incredible, you don’t go to all the high school events that you do as a normal teenager; he’s had to miss out on a lot of stuff,” she said.

Lawyer Violet Atkinson has died her hair metallic gold to support her partner Cameron McEvoy ahead of the Commonwealth Games. Picture: Liam Kidston.

“He doesn’t treat swimming with brute force; he’s so incredibly mental about it. Every stroke he’s thinking analytically about it.”

That means a typical Monday is a 4.30am wake-up call, a two-hour session in the pool, 2½ hours at the gym, a few hours of study, then back to the pool for another 2½ hours.

For Ms Atkinson it has meant never taking a holiday together, and going to social events solo, but she’s determined to show she doesn’t need it.

In preparation for the Games, yesterday she dyed her hair metallic gold with Brisbane’s Wendy Gunn, winner of the L’Oréal Colour Trophy, who will soon represent Australia with the trend at an international competition in Paris.