Ep. 649: A Passion for Better Recovery - Rachael Rapinoe
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Rachael Rapinoe is the Founder & CEO of Mendi, a sports recovery brand. Rachael won an NCAA national championship with the University of Portland in 2005, played pro soccer in Europe in 2010, and eventually retired to pursue her passion in the health and fitness industry.
Leveraging her Masters in Health and Exercise Science from PSU, Rachael went on to build Rapinoe SC–a soccer performance training company & lifestyle apparel brand with her twin, US Soccer star sister, Megan.
Having recently consulted as women’s soccer strength and conditioning coach for Division I Colleges, Rachael continues to apply her expertise in training, competition, and recovery in an effort to better understand the role recovery has in performance and the human body. With her network of influential athletes and passion for competing, Rachael shapes Mendi’s products to meet the relevant demand in sports.
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| 0:00.0 | It means to be in balance. I think that if you want to be successful, you have to be prepared to work hard and you have to be prepared to sacrifice. But you don't have to let it consume you and you don't have to be imbalanced. |
| 0:18.3 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 0:24.0 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:28.3 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. Hey folks, hope you're doing well. |
| 0:44.6 | Like I said in the last episode, the audio might be a little off right now while I'm |
| 0:49.1 | figuring out, you know, where I'm going to be recording in this new house. |
| 0:52.1 | So we just moved cross country. So, you know, things are crazy right to be recording in this new house, so we just moved cross-country. |
| 0:55.5 | So, you know, things are crazy right now, and we're also immediately remodeling. |
| 1:00.3 | So it's kind of a wild construction zone in here. |
| 1:04.0 | But anyway, it's super late tonight. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm recording this intro, and today's episode is kind of a stretch for us. It comes from |
| 1:14.7 | my other show called Without Compromise, which is through athletic brewing. Feel free to check |
| 1:20.3 | that out. But any time there's a good guest on there that would make a good episode for this show, |
| 1:24.4 | I plug it in on a Thursday, because typically Thursdays are throwback Thursday |
| 1:28.2 | episodes. |
| 1:29.7 | And so Rachel Rapino, that name might ring a bell because her sister, Megan Rapino, |
| 1:36.0 | was on the U.S. Olympic women's team when they won gold a few years ago. |
| 1:41.0 | And so, you know, really well-known name and Rachel just kind of talks about |
| 1:46.1 | them growing up, how she started falling off with injuries while her sister continued to |
| 1:52.4 | kind of grow in the sport. And so Rachel became pretty passionate about recovery, as you'll hear, |
| 1:59.3 | and just has a lot of cool cool things to share a lot of leadership |
| 2:02.3 | lessons a lot of stuff around just recovery for sports so it is a little stretch for this show but |
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