Hi, my name is Ryan Flaredy and I'm a senior director of Performance at Nike.

I trained some of the world's best athletes, like Russell Wilson, Marcus Mariotta, and Serena Williams.

At Nike we believe that greatness is inborn, it's trained.

And training is more than just a workout.

Each episode will bring you conversations with leading experts in what we call the

five facets of training. Movement, recovery, sleep, nutrition, and mindset.

Today we focus on the power of keeping an open mind.

You're listening to trained, presented by Nike.

I try to step back as an applied scientist. I'd like to think of myself more as an innovator as well.

So I take a view of what's happening with the athletes. What am I reading from the literature?

Take ideas from distinct groups and plug them together.

That's Brett Kirby, a human-performance scientist at the Nike Sports Research Lab,

and the lead physiologist on Breaking Two, the first attempt at breaking the two-hour mark for a full marathon.

This episode of trained is all about staying hungry, staying ambitious, even in the face of failure.

Too often people think about failure as a blocker to success, but in my opinion, failure is

necessary for success. And I know people say this all the time, but it's true. Sometimes you need

to fail in order to learn from your mistakes and ultimately accomplish your goals, no matter how crazy

they seem. Like one of my athletes, Kyleni. Kaysa, big wave surfer, and paddleboarder from Maui.

His goal was to break the paddleboard world record during the Mola Kaito Oahu race.

He needed to paddle through a treacherous 32 miles in under four hours and seven minutes.

It was a goal that he talked about for years, and so he and I dedicated six months of training to

the race. We tried new training methods that had never been used before, both on and off the board.

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