Episode 201: John Welbourn - 10 Year NFL Veteran
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, John Welbourn joined the show. John is a ten year NFL veteran and the CEO of Power Athlete. We dive into his thoughts on specificity of training and nutrition.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with your host's Dr. Sean Baker and Zach Bitter. |
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| 0:43.9 | Now, on to the next topic. |
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| 0:47.9 | John, if you don't mind just for folks in the audience, it might not be familiar with |
| 0:52.7 | who you are, what you do. |
| 0:53.9 | Could you give us a |
| 0:54.6 | quick little brief background description maybe? Yeah, sure. I'm a CEO of a company called Power |
| 1:00.4 | Athlete. We're based at Austin, Texas. We do global strength conditioning, really large group |
| 1:07.5 | performance training kind of implementation like we worked with the u.s military |
| 1:11.8 | Texas National Guard and gone in and really done large groups kind of pioneered a lot of online |
| 1:17.9 | training resources probably about five or six years ago before that I worked as a contract for |
| 1:22.4 | crossfit for nine years helping them develop their tech on how to train athletes I think I |
| 1:26.6 | traveled the world taught over 200 seminars I think I traveled the world, taught over |
| 1:28.1 | 200 seminars. I think we did 300 plus seminars on every continent on the globe over nine years, |
| 1:34.2 | basically implementing my own version of CrossFit. So 2009, when I got approached by CrossFit, |
| 1:40.2 | that was actually my, after I got injured in my 10th year in the NFL. So I got drafted, filled out the Eagles in 99, played there five years and went to the Kansas Chiefs for four years. And then my 10th year was with the New England Patriots where I ended up getting injured. And then, so I was rehabbing on the couch. That's when Crosson hit me up about helping them develop their technology on how to train athletes. |
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