Ep 708: Wanting It More Than Your Athletes
Power Athlete Radio
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4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Learn what is takes to turn an athletes attitude around and help bring awareness and perspective to the athlete's journey as the Crew and Dr Matt Zanis move some dirt around the proverbial camp fire to talk through a mountain every coach has climbed, wanting a goal more than their athlete or client.
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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 |
| 0:23.0 | director of performance. So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply |
| 0:29.3 | move the dirt, you've come to the right place. Now with the warm up done, let the gains begin. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm not going to invest this much time and energy if that part, I mean, and I know this is what we talked about with the job of the strength coach. |
| 0:48.1 | Like, I can't continue to be invested in people that are not going to fucking die on the sword for us. |
| 0:55.5 | Well, yeah, to quote Jim Wendler, I can't relate to people that are unwilling to die for what |
| 1:00.1 | they do. |
| 1:02.1 | But this is also the coaching paradox. |
| 1:05.6 | As you give, give, give, and you care more than the people that you're giving to that was one thing a mentor told me |
| 1:13.7 | at really really a long time ago is you can't want it more than your athlete or your client uh dude that's the |
| 1:18.0 | reason i sold my gym yeah um when i worked with a client uh had all these people come in they met their |
| 1:23.6 | goals and they thought i was so excited for them to meet their goals and they were like yeah I'm okay I'm not gonna continue and they quit I met my goal I'm |
| 1:30.4 | gonna go ski and do other things and I'm like but we just started you met everything |
| 1:33.6 | and I realized that day that the day that I wanted it more than the client I |
| 1:38.5 | shouldn't do this job anymore you gotta get those right people and yeah |
| 1:44.5 | those are the ideal clients then |
| 1:45.7 | but I'm running a lot that comes down to education |
| 1:47.7 | did Jim say that in our podcast |
| 1:49.4 | the second one or the first one |
| 1:50.6 | the number 98 |
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