(351 PART 1) Max Whitlock OBE chats Team GB secrets and his ultimate comeback ahead of Paris 2024
Private Parts
Peter Cowley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Hello all you Private Parters, welcome back to the podcast where nothing is off limits!
To celebrate getting through the first week of January, we're back with another fantastic guest. Today, Jamie is joined by a man whose grace and strength on the gymnastics mat have captivated audiences worldwide. He is Team GB's most successful gymnast ever and 6x Olympic champion... it's Max Whitlock OBE.
In a completely unfiltered chat, Max chats to Jamie all about his gymnastics journey, from how he got into gymnastics to dedicating his life to the sport and exactly how it feels to compete at the Olympics. He also candidly discusses his struggles with comparison, pressure and fear of failure, which led him to nearly retire from the sport he loves. Plus, he reveals how he is preparing for the Paris 2024 Olympic games.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, happy, happy new year. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Private Parts Podcast. I hope you all had an amazing new year. Hope you're all feeling a little bit more refreshed. I hope all of those things now today I'm really excited because we have one of Great Britain's most decorated Olympians, Max Wittlock on the podcast. |
| 0:28.4 | Max is an amazing guy. Really exciting because this year the Olympics are in Paris |
| 0:33.2 | 2024 he's teeing himself up for it. This is going to be his fourth Olympics which is |
| 0:39.2 | completely unique and rare which is going to be amazing. We talk about winning mentality, we talk |
| 0:45.1 | about mental health, we talk about what it takes to become a champion, we talk about |
| 0:49.9 | the Olympics, we talk about so many different things, it's unbelievable. |
| 0:54.7 | He's an incredible guy, he's an incredible athlete, an incredible Olympian, |
| 0:58.8 | and it was a pleasure to talk to him on the podium. |
| 1:01.0 | So you're really going to enjoy this one, especially in the new year, |
| 1:03.3 | and you're teeing yourself up for 2024, this is a big one. |
| 1:06.8 | Okay, listen, remember we're also on social media at private podcast, we're on YouTube and |
| 1:11.9 | TikTok as well, you can check out all the videos |
| 1:14.0 | please enjoy today's episode with the one the only mr Max Whitlock |
| 1:21.6 | Max welcome to private parts. I've been really excited about this. Yeah no |
| 1:26.4 | some way to be honest I love a podcast I think it's good to just sit have a nice |
| 1:30.0 | chill conversation a chat so yeah I'm looking forward to it. Thanks having me on. |
| 1:33.5 | I was listening to some of your podcasts that you've done and things you've done. |
| 1:36.5 | You speak very much about like how you'd like talking about things now. |
| 1:40.8 | And like not now but like you you like having that sort of therapeutic aspect |
| 1:43.9 | to it. Yeah I suppose I do and I think it's almost been a bit of a learning curve |
| 1:48.4 | for me for the experiences I've had over the years especially kind of the last |
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