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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

2522: Athletic Training Secrets With Alex Whitehair

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Athletic Training Secrets with Alex Whitehair

  • His background in the fitness and training space. (1:57)

  • Where did he get his inspiration? (6:32)

  • Translating application to action. (7:41)

  • How he assesses an athlete. (12:48)

  • The challenge of working with an athlete and not disrupting their timing or technique. (15:21)

  • How athletes are SO different from sport to sport. (18:16)

  • The difficulty in communicating recovery to his athletes. (20:23)

  • The various training modalities and how he would use them. (21:25)

  • Why if you’re going to add in one area, you need to dial back in another area. (24:10)

  • Risk vs reward. (27:03)

  • Why training cycles are important. (29:17)

  • The tools he uses and why. (33:05)

  • Exercises with the most value. (35:08)

  • A sports connoisseur. (42:43)

  • The most difficult athlete to train. (43:54)

  • Proud athlete comeback story. (48:29)

  • Lessons learned from Bruce Lee’s training. (52:31)

  • How he uses isometrics with his athletes. (58:09)

  • The differences between training men and women. (59:48)

  • Plyometrics AREN’T meant for conditioning. (1:03:37)

  • What does his business model look like? (1:10:00)

  • Downsides of building a business on social media. (1:11:19)

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.3

Mind Pump.

0:07.0

Mind Pump with your hosts.

0:09.2

Sal DeStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.4

You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast.

0:17.0

This is Mind Pump.

0:18.5

In today's episode, Training to maximize athletic performance, strength,

0:22.6

and power and agility. It can be a mystery. Well, today we have expert trainer Alex Whitehair

0:29.7

on the podcast. We found him on social media a long time ago. He trains people exceptionally well

0:35.0

using techniques and having an understanding that we haven't seen

0:38.8

with a lot of other people.

0:40.5

In today's episode, we're talking about athletic training secrets with this guy.

0:44.0

And again, he blew our mind.

0:45.5

He's going to be, he's amazing.

0:46.6

You're going to love this episode.

0:47.5

By the way, you can find him on Instagram at real game.

0:51.2

Dot athletics.

0:52.2

Go check them out.

0:52.8

He's got great, great stuff.

0:56.1

Now, this episode is brought to you by a sponsor,

0:57.7

bioptimizers.

1:00.1

So bioptimizers makes a product called mass enzymes.

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