022: Taylor Phinney | How to Use Pain to Your Advantage

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Phinney, an Olympic cyclist, recently sacrificed some "skin for glory." He fractured his leg after crashing his bike at speeds usually reserved for the highway. As with many champion athletes, he found a way to turn adversity to his advantage. The recovery process has pushed his pain threshold that much higher enabling him, in turn, to push the limits of his endurance. He has learned to trust the struggle as a way to impart valuable lessons on how it can make him that much stronger.
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Lessons:
1. Children should be allowed to find their own way as athletes.
2. Black Top Effect suggests that athletic talent is a mixture of nature and nurture.
3. You've got to play every day as if you were a pro.

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0:00.0	You're listening to SpartanUp Podcast.com where we study success and everything required to create it.
0:05.7	We interview people from all over the world that are successful, no matter how they define it. find it is night time cold and we've got the
0:26.4	It is night time cold and we've got the fire going. We're in jackets and pretty heavy duty sweatshirts We got Colonel Nye our military correspondent. We've got our rewilding expert who lives out in the woods are woodlands expert and then we've
0:36.8	got Johnny Dr Johnny who's our mind expert and we I went to Colorado, I met with Taylor Finney.
0:43.7	I told you I was going to see my buddy Ted Kennedy, who I met at Iron Man.
0:47.4	He used to put on actually Iron Man events in the U.S.
0:50.9	And he introduced me to Alan Lim, who owns and founded Scratch Labs.
0:57.6	He is Taylor Finney's nutritional expert coach. Funny enough, I met Alan, you'll see in Alan's podcast if you haven't watched that already at a
1:07.4	a croissant shop and much to my surprise this high-end nutritionist was eating croissants and drinking coffee.
1:14.0	Yeah, he's a great man.
1:16.0	And I you know at first my instinct would be as I'm sure people listening would be well gee
1:20.6	that doesn't sound like somebody that that takes care of the
1:23.8	nutritional needs of high-end athletes but whatever he's doing for Taylor
1:28.1	Finney seems to be working they're going out for a bike ride the deck I nailed
1:31.2	them and sat down and we and we talked so you're gonna you're gonna love that the United States
1:40.6	Day. I nailed them and sat down and we talk.
1:34.2	So you're gonna love this podcast.
1:36.4	I'm here in Colorado at Taylor Finney, arguably the United States
1:40.6	number one cyclist, is that fair to say? Maybe in a certain discipline.
1:45.3	All right. Maybe in personality. But I was just informed that crashing on a bicycle
1:51.8	is like driving 50 miles an hour down a hill in your
1:56.4	underwear and falling out of the car? Is that? Is that? It's like opening the door and
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