#164 Ken Chertow - Olympian, 3x All American for Penn State

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Ken Chertow is an Olympian from the ‘88 games and 3x All American for Penn State. After wrestling, Ken started the Gold Medal Training Camp System and has run camps across the country for over 25 years. Go to KenChertow.com to check dates and book a camp with Ken. 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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0:17.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go. I'm motivated. I've tried to be the best of what I do. It wasn't in elementary school. I certainly wasn't like that. Wrestling definitely impacted my life tremendously as being the very best that I could be as a 9th 10th 11th grader in high school that's not really.
0:25.0	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:36.0	I would say nothing in life has impacted me more than the things wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience.
0:44.0	Toughness.
0:45.0	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 and where I'm at today would not be there
0:57.8	without the values and basically the lessons I've learned to the sport of wrestling. For me, you're wrestling save my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
1:08.0	We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you rustled natural talent helps but it's
1:16.6	five percent of the ingredient it pales in comparison to heart and technique and
1:22.2	effort.
1:23.4	It humbled me, taught me humility.
1:26.3	Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:29.9	I think it's the learning to adapt, right? You learn, you learn how to
1:33.6	adapt, you learn how to solve problems.
1:36.6	You know, if I look back my time, I've spent wrestling. If it gave me one thing
1:39.6	more than anything else, it's been toughness.
1:42.3	Welcome back to the wrestling Change My Life Podcast.
1:45.0	This is your host Ryan Warner.
1:47.0	My guest today is the great Ken Chertow,
1:50.0	one of the most intense competitors of his time, pictures of this guy are all over the internet with him just grit in his teeth
1:56.7	Look up Ken Cherto. You know what I mean
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