"Quadrupled my swimming abilities": The Challenge 40 finalist Kyland reveals about his swimming abilities

The Challenge 40 aired Episode 18 on January 1, 2025, on MTV, which was the first part of the finale. While fans eagerly await the second part of the reality show, one of the finalists, Kyland Young, recently appeared on Johnny Bananas' podcast.

On January 4, 2025, Kyland was the guest on The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras Final Part 1 With Kyland on Death, Taxes, and Bananas. Johnny Bananas and Kyland Young discussed various things, from the competition show to how they and other competitors trained before the show.

Sharing more about "swimming" and how there are various challenges that revolve around water-based tasks, Kyland shared:

"So I did work on swimming. I probably...If you've seen me in USA one to where I am now, like, where I was going into (Season) 40. I, like, quadrupled my swimming abilities for like a short distance and what's really sad is that the guys who taught me how to swim like a short distance, literally asked me like, after we did because, it was some friends from college."

The Challenge 40 finalist Kyland Young on the Johnny Bananas podcast- Discusses his swimming abilities and performance during the competition

The Challenge 40 star Kyland Young, during his recent appearance on the Death, Taxes, and Bananas podcast, shared many exciting things and incidents from the MTV show.

Podcast host and show finalist Johnny Bananas introduced the guest:

"My next guest, it was the depths of deep, mysterious waters where just a simple act of swimming became his Kryptonite. So, to break down his season and his final, and why he's never taken swimming lessons, my next guest Mr. Kyland Young."

Listening to his introduction, Kyland laughed and said it got "mixed feelings introduction" from Johnny.

"Here's the deal. I will say just, it needs to be stated for the record for everybody, like, I went in, so I didn't... I feel like I could swim before I ever did any of The Challenge. I found out in my first challenge, Challenge USA, that I could basically, what I was, just not drowning, and I was just so slow," shared Kyland.

Further, on the podcast, The Challenge 40 star Kyland recalled how he learned "short distance" swimming and "nice little sprint." He also shared about working on "distance swimming" as well.

Johnny replied that Kyland was not wrong and they had already reached the reality show finals. He shared that apart from swimming, there's "way more than that," which Kyland has accomplished during the current reality show season.

Kyland added that he wanted everyone to "know that" he had worked on it, but not "as well as" he should have. Listening to that, Johnny Bananas shared that another contestant from The Challenge 40, Leroy Garrett, taught himself to swim from YouTube videos.

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MTV is all set and will air The Challenge 40 Finale Part Two on January 8, 2025

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