Coach Lew Caralla On What It Takes To Be Great, Sacrifices, Attributes Of The Most Successful People, & Giving Viral Speeches

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast is the Director of Strength & Conditioning at the Univerisity of Charlotte, Lew Caralla.

He's perhaps best known for his viral practice speeches to his teams over the years that have amassed hundreds of millions of views. He made a book out of some of the principles he talks about called "Fire Lighters 365."

Before his current role, Caralla was Buffalo's Head Strength and Conditioning Coach in 2018, following stints as Director of Strength and Conditioning at Louisiana-Lafayette (2016-17) and North Texas (2015). He was named Football Scoop's 2018 Strength Coach of the Year during his time at Buffalo.

He served as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Michigan for three years (2012-14), at Mississippi State for one (2011), and at Georgia Tech. His career began with an internship at South Florida in 2007. He was an intern at Virginia in 2008 and became a graduate assistant at Mississippi State in 2009-10.

Originally from Tarpon Springs, Fla., Caralla graduated with a bachelor's degree in wellness and corporate fitness from Defiance (Ohio) in 2008. He was a two-time all-conference running back and also earned academic all-conference accolades twice. He received a master's degree in kinesiology from Mississippi State in 2010.

In today's conversation, Lew discusses what it takes to be great, what separates the good from the great, lessons from working with NFL legends, his journey in sport, and so much more! This conversation will get you fired up and ready to attack whatever task is at hand.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, just a quick note before we hop into today's episode of the podcast, majority of you guys
0:05.9	listening right now have not given us a follow and a five-star review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts,
0:10.7	and it takes legitimately between five-and-10 seconds to hit the follow button, hit the five-star review
0:16.2	button. So I'd greatly appreciate you guys doing so if you have not done so already. And then
0:20.6	something all of you guys can do right now is share today's episode with a friend,
0:24.4	a family member, a teammate, someone who you think would find value and benefit from it.
0:28.8	I would greatly appreciate you guys doing that, sharing the podcast, sharing today's episode
0:32.4	with someone.
0:33.4	Because through that, we can expand the show and reach new people and hopefully through
0:37.3	that inspire them in the process. reach new people and hopefully through that
0:37.5	inspire them in the process.
0:39.3	Without for their due, let's get into today's conversation.
0:42.2	Coach Lou Carella, welcome to the Running Effect podcast.
0:44.9	How are you doing this morning?
0:45.9	Yeah, doing great.
0:46.8	Thanks for having me.
0:47.6	Looking forward to it.
0:48.7	I may have mentioned this to you briefly before, but as I'm sure with millions of other
0:53.6	people came across one of your
0:55.2	clips on social media and I got passed around in communities and it was personally very
0:59.6	inspiring to me and so many other people. First question for you today. I'm curious to hear
1:03.8	about. When did you first realize that you had a gift of speaking to other people, inspiring them?
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