EP 16 - Matt Nichol: How You Become A Successful Strength Coach

Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

Paul Chek

Spirituality, Metaphysics, Alternative Health, Personal Development, Holistic Health, Paul Chek, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Plant Medicine, Wellness, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Most people assume professional athletes are living in a completely different world compared to their counterparts in the business sector. Longtime Paul Chek disciple, premier NHL strength and conditioning coach and lifelong student, Matt Nichol, shows you wrong that assumption can be in his first Living 4D conversation. Show Notes Matt trains a lot of National Hockey League players but doesn’t know how to skate. (5:34)Matt’s gift for working with athletes comes from his life in a family of t...

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0:00.0	I always thought I had to make a choice.
0:02.0	Right.
0:03.0	Do I do the stuff that's going to help me get bigger and stronger, or do I do the stuff that's going to make me healthier?
0:08.0	I thought you had to choose between the two.
0:10.1	And so I realized it's actually not a choice at all.
0:12.5	The stuff that I'm supposed to do make me healthier
0:15.0	could actually make me stronger.
0:16.4	Yeah.
0:17.4	Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chek.
0:25.0	Today's guest is veteran's strength and conditioning coach Matt Nickle.
0:30.0	Matt has trained professional and elite amateur athletes since the late 1990s, working with numerous individuals, teens and organizations such as the Toronto Maple Leaves Hockey Club, the San Francisco 49ers, the Russian Ice Hockey
0:47.0	Foundation and Team Canada's World Cup of Hockey 2004 gold Gold Medalists.
0:53.9	As well as leading Canada's Premier Off-season Hockey Camps for NHL and elite amateur players,
1:00.0	Matt is a founding partner at Bio Steel Sports Supplements.
1:07.0	So Matt, welcome to heaven.
1:09.0	Oh, thank you very much for having me.
1:11.0	We were talking earlier, I was trying to remember how long it's been since you and I met and started
1:18.0	being friends and you taking my classes and you told me it was 20 years ago.
1:24.3	Actually I think 20 might be 21 this year I believe.
1:27.8	21 that's a while.
1:29.8	We got history baby.
1:31.0	So I'm excited to share your journey with everybody today.
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