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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 745: Dana Cavalea Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Dana Cavalea, the former strength, conditioning and performance coach for the New York Yankees and author of, “Habits of a Champion, Nobody Becomes a Champion By Accident.” He started in baseball as an underperforming player, knowing he would never make it to the major leagues. In 2002, at 19 years old, he was given the opportunity to be a towel/weight room cleanup guy for the Yankee’s – he quickly jumped at the chance.

The topic is his book Habits of a Champion: Nobody Becomes a Champion By Accident.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Importance of routine
  • Derek Jeter
  • Talent vs. work ethic in pro sports
  • Science behind training
  • Yoga
  • Mindfulness
  • Meditation
  • Downshifting the nervous system

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.

0:10.9

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

0:21.2

I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.2

What a fun guest today.

0:35.7

Dana Cavaliyah, a high high performance coach. How did he originally

0:40.6

cut his teeth as a 19-year-old intern with the New York Yankees? He quickly moved up the ladder

0:48.8

and has had the chats to interact with those Hall of Fame names that we all know.

0:56.6

Arod, Derek Jeter, Joe Torrey.

1:00.0

He knows them all.

1:01.2

He's had a chance to learn from them all.

1:03.8

And look, even if baseball's not your thing, it sure is how my thing, I've loved baseball

1:08.6

my whole life, but even if baseball's not your thing, if sports are not your thing.

1:15.8

The takeaway from Dana Cavaliyah's insights, gold.

1:21.3

And plus, what a fantastic story to be there when the Yankees win a World Series

1:26.8

to be recognized as the best strength

1:29.4

coach in Major League Baseball.

1:32.8

Now, when you hear best strength coach, let me take a step back.

1:37.6

Dana comes at this from the physical and mental side.

1:41.2

You're going to get both perspectives in this conversation.

1:43.6

In fact, probably even more

1:44.6

mental. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Dana Kavalea.

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