#155 Clint Wattenberg - UFC Performance Institute, Director of Sport Nutrition

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE Clint Wattenberg is the director of sports nutrition at the UFC Performance Institute. Before his current post, Clint was a 2x All American for Cornell. Enjoy it folks! SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by the Wrestling Changed My Life online store. We have podcast T-Shirts, Hoodies, Crew-necks, Stickers and more. Go to Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com to shop. ABOUT THE WRESTLING CHANGED MY LIFE PODCAST Hosted by Ryan Warner, the Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast features in-depth interviews with wrestlers and coaches to learn how the sport shaped and molded their lives. By stitching together stories of sacrifice, triumph, defeat and perseverance, the Podcast takes the listener deep inside the world’s oldest sport. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday. FOLLOW THE PODCAST WrestlingChangedMyLife.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	I get to I get to still have that wrestling bond with so many of the guys and
0:08.1	gals in the UFC which is really really fun to still be a part of that community and see guys like Daniel
0:14.0	Cormier and Chris Wideman and and you know these guys that I used to train with and
0:18.3	compete against that they're still out there living the dream and I get to you know part of that, Camar Ousman and the like.
0:29.2	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:36.2	I would say nothing in life has impacted me more than the things wrestling has taught me in terms of
0:42.2	self-reflection, resilience.
0:44.0	Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:47.0	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:52.0	And everything that has shaped my life... up and be a man after I failed.
0:52.6	And everything that has shaped my life
0:55.8	and where I'm at today would not be there without the values
0:59.3	and basically the lessons I've learned
1:01.5	through the support of wrestling.
1:03.0	For me, you wrestle saving my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
1:10.0	We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you rustled, natural talent helps,
1:16.3	but it's 5% of the ingredient.
1:19.5	It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:24.0	It humbled me, taught me humility.
1:26.0	Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:29.0	I think it's the learning to adapt, right?
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