Ep 653: Eat The Weak
Power Athlete Radio
Power Athlete
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Eat the weak has been a pillar of Power Athlete since it's inception and is the mindset we bring to training that separates our brand from all others pushing workouts your way. John and Tex go on journey to the ETW origins and how it has evolved from a turn of phrase to an appitite for devouring weakness, doubt, fear, and feeble excuses.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every damn day. |
| 0:08.0 | Join former NFL Pro and Power Athlete founder John Wellborn as he dissects the greatest minds in strength, conditioning, and more. |
| 0:16.0 | Joining him is everyone's favorite coach and hair model, Chris, aka Tex McQuilkin, Power Athletes Director of Performance. |
| 0:24.8 | So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've come to the right place. |
| 0:32.3 | Now with the warm-up done, let the gains begin. |
| 0:35.7 | Welcome to another episode of Power Athlete Radio. |
| 0:39.7 | We have a fun one in store for you today. |
| 0:42.6 | We are exploring the origins of one of Power Athletes Kickass, Taglines, Mottos, Trademarks, Eat the Week. |
| 0:54.8 | So this dates back to, I first witnessed this when I attended and competed in |
| 1:01.1 | Occupy Strength when Power Athlete was putting on training competitions, combine-esque |
| 1:07.3 | experiences, and I brought my whole crew, including Cali, Coach Callie, to an event |
| 1:13.2 | with a theme, Occupy Strength. Where was this? And Eat the Week. We attended Ballmore, Baltimore. |
| 1:19.4 | Baltimore. Yes. So it was an awesome experience all around. I don't think I was there. Was it? Negative. |
| 1:26.4 | It was Mr. Luke Summers. |
| 1:28.0 | That's when one fateful morning met Luke for the first time. |
| 1:32.0 | And then his teammate, his PIC, Bo Colombo, Bo Orlando, excuse me. |
| 1:37.9 | So I was right in the middle of the baby throws. |
| 1:40.5 | So my kids were born October of 2011. |
| 1:47.0 | And so there was a huge chunk in there. Obviously we had twins where I just missed time and wasn't involved. |
| 1:51.0 | So we needed to do an event. |
| 1:52.0 | We wanted to do something. |
| 1:53.0 | People were asking us to do combines. |
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