#172 - Paralympic Wheelchair Player Dan Highcock on Nutrition, Training & Mindset

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🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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If you couldn't use your legs fully, what sport would you do? Dan Highcock got shown wheelchair basketball at an early age and hasn't looked back since after a fatal motorbike accident. In this episode Dan shares his journey, his evolution as person, how his nutrition has evolved over the years, how he structures his training as an athlete, why giving up coffee was one of the best things he's ever done, why meditation has changed so much for him, and much more. Check Dan out on Social media, he posts some cool stuff.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio, episode number 172. We are well into 2016 if you are on the ball
0:08.0	and you listen every Thursday and you engage in the show. Welcome into 2016, I hope it's going as you planned I know me and Rachel
0:15.6	have talked an awful lot recently about goal setting what you're doing why you're
0:20.5	doing it and you know we don't we don't say this stuff for no reason it's
0:23.8	really really important and you know we often you can often say that any time
0:29.2	is the right time to start new things and it is right but I know the kind of fall of a new year is a good time
0:36.0	so whatever you're doing in 2016 make it count
0:39.0	and hopefully I'll be speaking to a man right now
0:42.0	that will give you a little bit of
0:44.4	inspiration so I think it's got a very cool story. As you know next year is the
0:49.6	Rio Olympics and this man is going to be competing in the Paralympics. He has a
0:54.4	fascinating story. He is an amazing athlete. If you look at this guy's photos
0:58.1	online, he is way more buff than I am and I would never challenge him on the court.
1:04.0	Diane Highcock hello.
1:06.0	Hello mates how we doing?
1:08.0	mate I am awesome.
1:09.0	I was doing some googling around about you
1:12.0	and you've actually been written about a fair bit and you've got your own
1:16.4	Wikipedia page I don't have that. I don't know what to tell you then. Did you write your own Wikipedia paper?
1:24.0	No, no, I'm pretty sure the PR officer from the Great Britain basketball team
1:30.0	sorted all out a number of years ago so yeah well I'm not something I check on regularly
1:38.9	Well, mate tell the audience who and earth you are because there'll be loads of people
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