Build A Body That Protects You When It Matters | Chloe Kim

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Chloe Kim gained 40 pounds before Beijing and was getting bedridden from falls she used to shrug off. What she did after that Olympics changed everything.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:11.2	Why did you decide from never working out or not working out that much, except for on the slopes,
0:17.1	which is a workout, but going to the gym and working on, I guess, different types of
0:21.8	working out.
0:22.3	Yeah.
0:23.1	Why did you decide to take that on?
0:26.0	Well, it was kind of my fitness journey is definitely a journey.
0:28.9	So let's talk about it.
0:30.2	So I think after the first Olympics, 2018, I, some people were telling me that maybe I should look into a trainer because I had partially
0:39.8	tournament ACL when I was 15 and I don't know I just wasn't that strong not lag and so obviously
0:46.8	okay let's work out and hit the gym cool met a trainer through Nike that's also how I met Vinny
0:51.7	was through this trainer and I just like wasn't really
0:56.0	consistent. Like I would do it for a bit and then I wouldn't and then I'd do it. Yeah. But I'm like,
1:00.1	oh, I'm still young and like I want to have fun doing this summer. It's like I didn't really
1:03.4	learn time management well yet, you know, like schedules and structure. So then COVID happened.
1:09.8	I went to school and then COVID happened into going into my spring semester.
1:15.5	And I put on a lot of weight when I was at college.
1:18.2	Really?
1:18.5	But like, whatever.
1:19.8	But then COVID hit and we doubled down.
1:22.2	Yeah.
1:23.0	It was bad.
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