Episode 17 - Joe "Big House" Kenn

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

Sports

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Joe "Big House" Kenn is the first person ever to be voted the National Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year in both college football and the NFL. "Big House" coached at the University of Louisville with Eric from 2008-2009 and is now the current Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Carolina Panthers.

The two football guys reconnect to talk about Houses' upbringing, his journey to the NFL, what separates him from other coaches, how to motivate players, some funny stories from the past and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you truly willing to fight the good fight?
0:15.2	Because in any job or any aspirations of what you see yourself, there's always adversity and there's always a
0:24.8	tremendous amount of work that goes into it.
0:30.7	Welcome to the next episode of What's Next with Eric Wood.
0:34.9	Our guest this week is Joe Big House Ken. Joe Ken was the strength coach
0:41.0	at the University of Louisville in 2008 and 2009 and coached me heading into my senior year
0:46.2	and then after I got back from training for the combine, he helped prep me for my rookie season.
0:52.8	He's the only strength coach ever to be voted the national strength and conditioning
0:56.7	coach of the year in college and the NFL.
0:59.7	He is the current strength conditioning coach for the Carolina Panthers.
1:04.0	He is truly a one-of-a-kind man that is an excellent leader in coach and has positively
1:09.3	impacted so many individuals along the way.
1:12.4	We will reference a lot of those throughout this podcast.
1:16.4	Enjoy his story of the rise to the top of his profession and a number of the lessons he's
1:22.0	learned along the way.
1:23.7	Enjoy.
1:25.3	Big House, welcome to the show.
1:27.7	Eric, man, I truly appreciate you've had some heavy, heavy hitters on this show.
1:31.1	I enjoy listening, so I'm quite honored to be a part of that group.
1:35.0	No, my man, you're at the top of the list.
1:37.0	Why don't you start off our listeners?
1:39.6	Tell them about where you grew up, sports you played through high school.
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