955: John Brenkus- 6x Emmy-Award Winning Creator, Host, & Producer of Sport Science
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin speak with John Brenkus, an award winning producer, director, and television personality.
- John talks about his ‘robotic’ knee surgery. (3:14)
- How did he get tagged ‘The Sports Science Guy’? His background and the origin story of the show. (7:15)
- Were there any preconceived notions he had on these athletes before they were on the show? (12:46)
- Does he think NFL teams have started recruiting differently because of the show? (15:45)
- Did he have an athlete on the show that stood out above the rest? (18:34)
- What is the worst injury he has sustained on the show? (20:28)
- Are the athletes pumped to get these HIGH numbers on the show? (24:22)
- What if LeBron James played tight end in football? + The greatest athlete of all time based on his metrics. (26:20)
- What is it that separates these great athletes from everyone else? (32:23)
- Can you improve your skills or are you born with them? The theory of ‘Morphic Resonance’. (35:32)
- Should boys and girls be competing together? The humbling notion of getting ‘weeded out’. (38:27)
- How does he feel about children’s sports today? The participation medal era. (51:28)
- What does the conversation look like with his daughter on this very topic? (53:36)
- How there is no shame getting ‘chicked’. (57:05)
- What is his opinion on ‘CTE’ and what strategies should the NFL implement? (59:40)
- How a gun is NOT the most dangerous thing in your house. (1:03:35)
- What things does he have in the works? (1:05:20)
- Does he feel the attributes in top athletes are the same we would find in the top business performers? (1:07:05)
Featured Guest/People Mentioned:
- John Brenkus (@johnbrenkus_) · Twitter
- Jerry Rice (@JerryRice) Twitter
- LeBron James (@kingjames) Instagram
- Ray Lewis (@raylewis) Twitter
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| 0:53.1 | This is the sports science guide. I've seen like every fucking episode. |
| 1:12.9 | My favorite show. Yeah, he hosted sports science, but his company, his production company, |
| 1:20.3 | also produced like fight science, which so I don't watch sports science. And I watched |
| 1:23.9 | the fight one. But I watched the fight science. They both are great. Yeah. And this guy, |
| 1:27.9 | this guy's brilliant. He's talking all about what makes great athletes great. He had |
| 1:33.5 | a TED talk that was real controversial a while ago about how we should let boys and girls |
| 1:39.5 | compete together in sports. And he actually made some very, very good points in this episode. |
| 1:45.6 | I thought I would disagree with him a lot more than I actually did. I didn't disagree with |
| 1:49.8 | him that much. He actually made some really good points. Great conversation. This dude was |
| 1:53.6 | a really, really cool guy. I'm so glad we had him on the show. I'm upset we didn't have |
| 1:56.6 | more time with him. We're going to get him back. Yeah. Yeah. No, we'll definitely do |
| 1:59.7 | another one. You can look up those episodes to those those sports science ones and fight |
| 2:04.0 | science ones on on YouTube. So you can kind of see some of the cool stuff that they did. |
| 2:07.2 | Yeah, I can't if you're at all a sports person. I can't imagine you don't know who this |
| 2:11.1 | is. I mean, that it is like it was one of the top shows. It's just cool stuff. Like I remember |
| 2:15.6 | one episode of fight science. They were seeing which martial art produced the most power |
| 2:21.0 | with the kick and they broke it down by the science. Like where how the forces generated |
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