Ep 591: HAMR'ing Soft Americans into Door Kickers
Power Athlete Radio
Power Athlete
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
John F. Kennedy wrote an article in Sports Illustrated, The Soft American, outlining his thoughts on the decline in the physical strength and ability of young Americans sharing, "one out of every two young Americans was being rejected by Selective Service as mentally, morally or physically unfit.”This challenge is as relevant now as it was in 1960.
In this podcast, John and Tex talk being the hammer, how to increase your resilience and lethality, plus balancing training for a specific job's fitness test and still improving performance required to do the damn job well.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Thanks for tuning into Power Athlete Radio featuring The Crew. |
| 0:11.7 | We're a former pro football player and a D3 All-Star use strength and conditioning as an excuse to talk about anything but. |
| 0:18.7 | Now here's John and Tex. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey, welcome to another episode of Power Athlete Radio. |
| 0:34.6 | We're jumping in with both feet, and we are going to discuss all things hammer. |
| 0:38.5 | For those you guys have been living under a rock or in a cage or in a cave, |
| 0:41.7 | who lives in a cage and a cage? |
| 0:42.8 | Ah, nobody I know. |
| 0:47.2 | But if you've been hiding under rocks and you don't know what Hammer is, Hammer is one of Power Athletes flagship programs. |
| 0:49.5 | The Hammer is an acronym for holistic athlete movement readiness program. |
| 0:57.6 | And the reason it has this acronym was as we were designing this program for the U.S. military, we had to have an acronym. Dave Spanton's |
| 1:03.6 | like, the program's got to have an acronym. It would be great if we could incorporate be the hammer |
| 1:07.7 | into the program. And so I started with hammers an acronym, |
| 1:12.4 | and we started looking at everything to begin with an age. And we worked in, and I had an |
| 1:17.5 | epiphany, holistic athlete movement, movement readiness program. And the hammer was born. |
| 1:24.5 | That program was created and pushed to the 18th Airborne Corps. |
| 1:30.4 | And obviously that went to contracting, ended up not going through because the H2F deal |
| 1:34.7 | ended up kind of hitting it about the same time. |
| 1:37.6 | And they ended up going out on a bigger initiative more so than just the 18th |
| 1:40.3 | thereborn. |
| 1:41.1 | And we had that program in her back pocket. |
| 1:43.6 | And then we were approached by the Texas |
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