Ep 809: Fixing Broken Athletes w/ Henry Abbott

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Fitness, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Journalist, author and amature athlete, Henry Abbott, joins John to break down his new book Ballistic, a brutal takedown of modern coaching and why athletes are getting hurt younger and more often. From overuse injuries to one-sport burnout, they unpack what’s breaking athletes and how ballistic movement could be the antidote. Coaches, parents, and athletes, this one’s a wake-up call. Shownotes: https://pahq.co/Ep809 Are you looking to dominate the leaderboard and take your inner athlete to the next level? Expose yourself to the advanced training techniques that contributed to John Welbourn's 10 year NFL career. START TODAY https://powerathletehq.com/fieldstrong/ Check out what we do: Training - https://powerathletehq.com/training Nutrition - https://powerathletehq.com/nutrition Knowledge - https://academy.powerathletehq.com Click on the link to see the companies we use and support 👉 https://powerathletehq.com/partners/ Get Henry's new book, Ballistic 👉 https://a.co/d/5YI3m6T Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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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. Henry Abbott, thank you for coming on Power Athlete Radio to discuss your new book, Ballistic, which thank you very much for sending over. I actually had a chance to go through and read and I'll just tell you I didn't finish everything,
0:20.4	but skimmed through it and hopefully put some pretty good questions together and we can talk about
0:23.9	injury and read. And I'll just tell you I didn't finish everything, but skimmed through it and hopefully put some pretty good questions together. And we can talk about injury and science. And I'm actually very interested in what the guys at 3P are doing. Yeah, let's talk about it. Yeah, let's get in. I mean, I'd just like to start with a few questions for you. I mean, you had a long career as a journalist covering the NBA. How did that kind of
0:55.1	set the tone for this book? I mean, with injuries. I come from the NFL, so I think NBA players a bunch of fucking prima donnas. And so as you were talking about all these injuries, I was like, dude, first of all, they fly around on private jets. There's four or five of them. They like, you know, travel like this. I mean, I realize their knees are a little banged up, but like the game is not what it was 20 years ago.
1:15.9	I mean, I was watching some Larry Bird clips because to this day, I still think that that era of like
1:21.5	Bird and Magic and Jordan and those guys and that, I mean, was so much more physical. So now I
1:26.3	watch the NBA and I'm like, God, these guys are so like soft compared to what
1:30.9	their predecessors were.
1:32.1	So I'm interested to get your take and especially as a reporter and somebody that covers
1:36.1	the NBA.
1:37.0	I just want to say like from like a 30,000th perspective, that is the perfect beginning of
1:41.6	power athlete radio.
1:43.5	Right.
1:43.5	You're just like, that is a total power perspective right there. is the perfect beginning of power athlete radio.
1:48.3	That is the total power perspective right there.
1:51.1	Well, I, you know, I feel that, you know,
1:52.6	we failed at the margins of our experience.
1:55.1	And my experience is a 10-year NFL player was like,
1:56.0	you know, I played in Philly.
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