477 Jeff Olson - Two-Time Olympian and Three-Time National Champion Skier

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Jeff Olson is a two-time Olympian, three-time national downhill champion and Pan-American gold medalist. Upon retiring from professional athletics, he had successful careers in both the financial and technology industries. In 2000, he co-founded Well Nourished Worldwide whose mission is to transform the standard in medicine, health and human performance. Jeff is co-founder of the Metro Denver Health and Wellness Commission (pre cursor to LiveWell Colorado) and the Zyozy Foundation. He serves on the board of directors of CAN DO multiple sclerosis, Turn the Tide Foundation and is Vice President of the Colorado Olympian and Paralympian Association. He is involved in Denver's pursuit of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. You can view his TEDxMilHigh talk regarding a Denver Olympic on Youtube

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast podcast. I am your host Eddie gift each and
0:07.3	every week. I bring you a show, a podcast about strength conditioning, health, fitness,
0:15.8	everything, a lot of crossfit, talk a lot of crossfit, talk a lot of my hobbies, skiing,
0:21.7	surfing, mountain biking, all kinds of things like that. But I love all the aspects of fitness
0:27.6	from running, lifting, gymnastics, you name it. So we talk it this week is like that. We
0:34.1	talk to a guy who's a very fit individual, very health-oriented individual works in the
0:38.9	health business and is a former athlete, a former amazing elite athlete, a former Olympian,
0:45.3	two-time Olympian and World Cup winner, skier, his name is Jeff Olson, good friend. We'll
0:52.7	get to him. He's amazing. But before that, let's talk about you guys. You're an amazing,
0:57.8	amazing listenership. I love everything you do. I love all your comments. I love all your
1:04.4	criticisms as much as I say I don't do and when I don't get them, I get a little sad. I ran
1:11.1	into a guy this week in the gym who is a listener of the show. I was at Crossfit Cornelius here in
1:17.5	North Carolina where I am. Excellent Crossfit gym. Excellent. Next week I have Michelle Besnet,
1:27.0	who is a coach there who's going to the Crossfit Games. She's my guest next week. So we got a
1:33.3	lot of great upcoming episodes. What else do I have for you? I have some really cool stuff and
1:41.1	I want to get to that. But I talk about the Patreon a lot. Each and every week you can win yourself
1:46.8	a leopard claw and a myapox. A leopard claws, a multi-tool device that you use to scrape adhesions
1:51.9	on your body. Adhesions are those little clumps of things that mess up the tissue and don't allow
1:56.9	the blood flow and you can scrape them out. You put a little foam on there, a little lubricant.
2:01.5	You just scrape over it and it gets that back and lets the blood flowing and allows you to rehab
2:06.9	a lot quicker than you would naturally. Sometimes you don't rehab. Sometimes it just ends up being
2:12.5	gunked and you mess everything up. So get on it, get yourself one of these. There's another thing
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