#41 with Rachel Balkovec on Strength and Conditioning & Saying NO to get a better YES.

Meathead Hippie

Emily Schromm

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 600 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Balkovec just finished her second season as the Latin American Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the Houston Astros. She will now be serving as the club’s AA strength and conditioning coach. Previous to working with the Astros, she was the Minor League Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the St. Louis Cardinals for 2 seasons after working in various positions with EXOS (Formerly Athletes' Performance), Louisiana State University, The Chicago White Sox, Arizona State University and Los Tigres Del Licey Beisbol. She is a former NCAA Division I softball catcher and has recently began a public speaking initiative directed at the empowerment of young women. http://www.rachelbalkovec.com/ https://twitter.com/damselndadugout https://www.instagram.com/rachel.balkovec/ Content Summary: 5:35 Incentive to Continue Education “Studying the body and understanding the body is going to be the future of athletics.” 7:30 Undeniable Desire to Be More 8:45 Rachel’s Backstory Her start with an internship and experience working multiple jobs 11:25 The Unglamorous Reality of Work “The crazy is what makes people successful” 15:55 Finding Time to Train Separating work from your time in the gym 19:00 Crossfit, Olympic Lifting and Baseball “Crossfit feeds right into the psycho.” Feeling empowerment after conquering tough lifts 28:42 Powerlifting 36:00 Rachel’s Food Philosophy: Loosely Vegetarian How cutting out meat has worked for her 45:25 Habits VS. Non-Negotiable Principles Knowing your limit to how much you can ask upon yourself “The habits will fall in line after you make the decision to do what’s right for you in your life.” Thank you listeners!! Please leave a review if you enjoyed and checkout my links below to get plugged in more to what I'm doing. PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: www.facebook.com/groups/1292792567518714/ Find more on Em here: @emilyschromm www.emilyschromm.com youtube.com/emilyschromm

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0:00.0	When life gives you lemons, make chocolate cake, and leave bitches wondering how you did it.
0:07.7	That's basically my life motto, but it's also the motto of this podcast, the theme.
0:12.6	Rachel Balkevac, who is the first female strength and conditioning coach in a professional
0:19.6	baseball is here to talk with me today. I knew I would love her, but we got
0:24.1	along really, really well. Even some of her blogs have some of my favorite quotes in the world.
0:28.5	So it's just a podcast that is very much kind of a reality check of what working hard means
0:37.2	and how you get to where you want to be
0:39.9	and how to be successful.
0:41.4	And I don't even know really what it is.
0:42.9	I just had so much fun talking with her.
0:44.7	I didn't want to stop talking.
0:46.1	So I hope you enjoyed as much as I did.
0:49.3	Some of the things I'm obsessed with.
0:51.3	What am I obsessed with?
0:52.4	If you've been following my Instagram, I'm obsessed
0:55.4	with egg yolks this week. I just, oh man, I just get so fired up about it. Because really,
1:03.9	when you think about what replaces egg yolks, when people say that, yes, you got to take a lot of,
1:08.6	you have to take more supplements than me in order to
1:11.2	replace the nutrients and egg yolks. So if you don't do egg yolks because of the taste, I totally
1:16.1	get it. But everything in egg yolks is just hard to replace. And so some of it could be saturated
1:22.3	fat in butter or ghee, which is awesome. But truly, I mean, it's just one of those superfoods that I have yet
1:30.7	to find a replacement for unless you really are taking vitamin K, which we talked about with
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