You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every damn day.

Join former NFL Pro and Power Athlete founder John Wellborn as he dissects the greatest minds in strength, conditioning, and more.

Joining him is everyone's favorite coach and hair model, Chris, aka Tex McQuilkin, power athletes director of performance.

So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've come to the right place.

Now with the warm-up done, let the gains begin.

Hey, Mr. McQuilken, what's happening?

A lot, John. Really? What's going on? Oh, well, I'm very excited for this episode. Well, I know this episode, before we get into it. What's going on on the McQuilken front? Well, we're in the throes of fall across. Have you crushed over the threshold? Or are you guys like itching at the threshold?

This is like, or has it started.

They're primed, similar to your draft day experience in which we're getting into.

They're ready.

There's a lot of potential here.

And I'm aiming with words to empower their performance and make an impact as a coach and be the hammer out there.

Is today the first actual practice?

Yesterday was a team meeting.

Which words were heavily involved?

Yeah.

Well, I mean, usually with meetings, they can go one or two ways.

It's either like, hey, we know what's in front of us.

Let's go.

Or we get what we call the false profit effect, where in the absence of true leadership, false profits appear, coined in 2000, 2001 by one Mr. John Wellborn while playing for the Philadelphia Eagles. In the absence of true leadership, false profits appear. It sounds like there were a lot of false profits. In previous years, yes. And that's the aim. Part of this is we are developing. We're in the

business of building hammers here at Power Athlete. I get the opportunity as a coach to make an impact

on some young lives and give them the opportunity to get reps leading before they take it into the real world.

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