Coaches' Corner: Working Out And Working In

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Working out offers a healthy path towards self-actualization. But it can also be used to avoid ‘working in’, perpetuating denial of that which must be confronted. What’s the difference between the two? Ask Chris Hauth + Caroline Burckle and they’ll both agree: the answer is intention. Over the last few years, it’s been a tradition to host periodic performance fitness deep dives with my long-time coach, Olympian, former professional triathlete, and fellow endurance fanatic Chris Hauth in a series erstwhile referred to as Coach’s Corner. Unfortunately, the pandemic derailed the regularity of this institution, our last observance of this sacred ritual conducted exactly one year ago on Zoom. In apologetic atonement for this grievous oversight, today we restore balance to the Universe, graced with the presence of not one but two Olympians because Chris and myself are joined by Caroline Burckle—an audience favorite many of you will fondly recall from RRP #565 this past December. For those new to the show, Chris is a sub-9 hour Ironman champion, a former Olympic Swimmer, a veteran of many an ultra-endurance challenge, my ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Championship teammate, and one of the world’s most respected endurance coaches. Caroline (Burks) is a former swimmer & Olympic medalist with 23 All American titles, 2 NCAA individual victories & NCAA Female Swimmer of the Year accolades to her name. She runs RISE, a mentor program that pairs Olympic athletes with young elite athletes for support and guidance. This is a super fun round table discussion on how to bring purpose and intention to our strength and endurance goals. It’s about how to create opportunities for personal growth, resilience, and the adaptability that athletic performance and this pandemic present and demand. It’s about the power of self-curated adventures in lieu of formal competition. It’s about what sport can teach us about patience, self-love, and discipline. And it’s about showing up and doing not only the physical work but also the internal work. In other words, it’s not just about working out. It’s also about working in. FULL BLOG & SHOW NOTES: bit.ly/richroll595 Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/rrpitunes Chris & Caroline are two of my favorite people. But the combo is over the top. This union is so charmed, what was once dubbed Coach’s Corner is now rebranded as Coaches’ Corner. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	The training is a scaffolding.
0:03.4	What happens inside that scaffolding is unique to everybody.
0:07.9	I might be doing a lot of mental work.
0:10.7	Other people might be doing physical work.
0:13.5	Other people are doing spiritual work.
0:15.5	The training sets up the opportunity every day to spend time with yourself and you might
0:20.4	not want to go in that day.
0:22.4	You might just sort of do a little paint job.
0:26.0	But other days you're knocking down walls and you are doing some serious work inside
0:31.9	and the tears come or the aha moment comes and you're like, wow, I hadn't realized how badly
0:38.4	I am avoiding.
0:39.8	But again, I think it's important that curiosity sets up the training, the scaffolding, so
0:45.5	that you have an opportunity every day or every few days if you're not training every
0:50.1	day to sort of do that working in and working out.
0:54.3	For sure, and I'm going to throw another thought in here, the power of what people experience
1:00.2	through their bodies that they're not listening to.
1:03.8	Those things tell me what I'm avoiding.
1:05.7	So that can be a cue into kind of what's happening.
1:09.0	And I think there's a lot of intellectual athletes and then there's a lot of somatic
1:14.4	and sensory athletes.
1:15.7	And I think speaking to both in this space, like if I can speak to the sensory side where
1:20.8	it's like you feel something off, don't ignore that, tap into that and go into that and
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