045: Mac McClung- Developing His Game + Bounce, Becoming a Viral Sensation & More
The PJF Podcast: Elite Sports Performance
Paul Fabritz
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
TIMECODES
- 0:36 Intro
- 0:44 Basketball Beginnings
- 4:55 Rise to Social Media Stardom
- 13:00 Transitioning to College Hoops
- 14:16 Transitioning to the NBA
- 15:54 G League Rookie of the Year
- 17:43 First NBA Bucket
- 18:02 Playing with the Lakers
- 20:15 Explosive Training Beginnings
- 27:45 The Start of the Mac McClung Program
- 35:26 NBA Physicality
- 38:29 Training/Conditioning in the NBA
- 45:15 Speed Rounds
TRAINING PROGRAMS
Speed Code: https://www.pjfperformance.net/the-speed-code/
Fat Don't Fly: http://www.pjfperformance.net/fat-dont-fly/
The Vert Code & The Vert Code Elite: http://www.pjfperformance.net/the-vert-code-elite-2/
Edge U: https://theedgeu.com
PROTEIN
Upper Echelon Nutrition: https://uenutrition.com (Use discount code PJFPERFORMANCE to get 20% off)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's funny how these scouts, even this day, like, they measure all these things, man, but, like, you didn't measure, like, you didn't see who I was and how hard I worked. Can't measure my heart. You can't measure my heart. Like, you don't know. Like, you don't understand. Like, I'm going to find a way. You're listening to the PJF podcast, a show dedicated to decoding elite sports performance and fitness. I'm Paul Fabrets and I'm an NBA |
| 0:22.7 | Strength and Conditioning and Performance Trainer. If you want to become superhuman, take your |
| 0:27.7 | fitness and take your sports performance to the next level. This is the podcast for you. Let's do it. |
| 0:36.2 | All right, guys, today we got a very special guest. |
| 0:39.3 | My guy, Mack McClung, is in the building. |
| 0:41.4 | Thanks for being here, Mac. |
| 0:42.4 | Oh, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:43.8 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:44.6 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:45.6 | So, first of all, for people who don't know your backstory, like day one childhood stuff, |
| 0:52.8 | like when did you first get into basketball? |
| 0:55.2 | Have you had a basketball on your hand your whole life? |
| 0:57.3 | Actually, I didn't like basketball. |
| 0:59.7 | My younger ages, I love football. |
| 1:02.2 | My dad played football, so I wanted to be like my dad and play football. |
| 1:06.5 | And about my seventh grade year, the basketball, the head basketball coach for me, and he came |
| 1:12.6 | up to my mom, and he was like, you know, Mac needs to play basketball because I was a decent |
| 1:15.9 | athlete. And it was cool, the high school coach, you know, at a high school, it was cool that |
| 1:21.7 | he approached me and wanted me to play, and I tried it, and I fell in love with it in about seventh |
| 1:26.3 | grade. And I always worked really hard on plot metrics like we do. |
| 1:29.7 | And I told my dad, you know, I'm not going to play football no more. |
| 1:33.1 | I'm going to play basketball. |
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