Ep 780: Is emotional health linked to your fitness?
Power Athlete Radio
Power Athlete
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Crushing it in the gym is one thing, but handling the weight of life? That’s a whole new PR. This week, the legendary Sean Waxman drops knowledge bombs on confidence, depression, and why getting strong is more than just reps and sets—it's emotional survival. Tune in, get fired up, and learn how discipline under the bar makes you a warrior in life. Don’t miss this one.
00:00:27 - Coaching High School Football
00:12:56 - Coaching High School Football
00:18:44 - Styles of Training
00:37:49 - Mindsets
00:59:46 - Generational Diets
01:13:07 - Changes in Behavior
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every damn day. |
| 0:08.4 | Join former NFL Pro and Power Athlete founder John Wellborn as he dissects the greatest minds in strength, conditioning, and more. |
| 0:17.0 | So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've come to the right place. |
| 0:24.5 | Now with the warm up done, let the gains begin. |
| 0:27.2 | Man, I'm stoked your coaching high school football. |
| 0:29.6 | I love that idea way more than you. |
| 0:33.6 | Stuck in some little corner gym down off of the 405 near in and out. |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah, it was, you know, if it wasn't for COVID, I wouldn't happen. |
| 0:43.2 | Oh. You know, I just, COVID allowed me a chance to take my foot off the gas. You know, |
| 0:49.8 | and I, I tell the story. You know, I, it was like, it was a, and it was like 11 o'clock in the afternoon. |
| 0:57.4 | COVID was in full swing. |
| 0:59.5 | Suns out. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm on my porch with my dog, drink some water, staring at my lemon tree. |
| 1:08.4 | And I said, it came to me. |
| 1:10.5 | It's like, you know, I don't know the last time in my life |
| 1:13.0 | at 11 o'clock on a Wednesday that I'm sitting, you know, I'm sitting in the sun staring at a |
| 1:20.0 | tree. And I said, you know what? This is my life when I want my, my, the next 50 or so years to be |
| 1:27.1 | of my life. And I started so years to be of my life and I started working |
| 1:29.5 | backwards from there and and and and and and I wanted I wanted my life to be that you know |
| 1:35.5 | to have that kind of spirit and uh I basically funded my gym out of my own pocket because I lost like 70% of my members within |
| 1:46.1 | three weeks. |
| 1:47.2 | Young people that stayed were my, were my, were my national level weightlifters. |
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