John Welbourn - CEO of Power Athlete— Real Chalk #80
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
John Welbourn is CEO of Power Athlete and Fuse Move. Creator of the online training phenomena called "Johnnie WOD" and a hilarious/informative blog called, "Talk To Me Johnny." He also just happens to be a 9 year veteran of the NFL and a absolutely behemoth of a human.
Ever since I first met John at a CrossFit football seminar about 10 years ago, he has always been a great source of knowledge for me. He has a no bullshit approach to his speaking and writing style, along with the brains to back up and then some... This guy is amazing to listen to when he's on a topic he enjoys.
John has worked with CrossFit Games athletes, MLB, NFL, NHL, Olympic athletes and the Military. He currently most of his time traveling the world lecturing on performance and nutrition for Power Athlete. You can catch up with John at @powerathletehq and powerathletehq.com
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys, it's Tuesday, it's time for another episode of Real Choc. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm super excited for this episode because you guys get to listen to someone that I've admired for a really long time. |
| 0:10.5 | And his name is John Wellborne. He's played almost 10 years in the NFL. He's a behemoth of a man. |
| 0:17.7 | Every time I see him, I have to just look straight up. It's not like an angle of like, he's pretty tall. |
| 0:23.0 | He's like fucking really tall. And he weighs over 300 pounds. |
| 0:26.8 | So he's just a huge human. And when you're Ryan Fisher and you're 5'5", you weigh 180 pounds, he just looks like three of me potentially. |
| 0:34.8 | I guess my legs probably the size of his arm. His arms probably the size, okay nevermind. |
| 0:39.8 | So check it out. We talk about a little bit of everything. He's just such a cool dude. He's so knowledgeable on so many things. |
| 0:47.8 | I think one of my favorite things about him is he has a blog on his website power athlete HQ.com. |
| 0:54.8 | It's called Talk to Me Johnny because his name is John. And he basically like rips people apart in these blogs. |
| 1:01.8 | But in like the most knowledgeable and like funny, but yet go fuck yourself type of a way, which I think is amazing. |
| 1:10.8 | It's just it's really easy to read. It's you know very insightful. You learn a lot in it, but you also laugh at the same time. |
| 1:18.8 | So there's very few people on earth where I can read through their whole thing and learn something and laugh at the same time. |
| 1:24.8 | So I absolutely love this this man's style. When I was a competitor, he was training a couple of CrossFit Games athletes. |
| 1:30.8 | And now he's into you know major like baseball, more of the NFL stuff, more of the military stuff. |
| 1:36.8 | We talk a little bit about how he's about to start a big program for the military, which is going to be really cool. |
| 1:40.8 | And he's just doing big things like in the CrossFit space, in the strength conditioning space. |
| 1:45.8 | He's a super knowledgeable guy that a lot of people don't talk about. And it kind of bothers me actually because he's so smart. |
| 1:52.8 | And he's on to a lot of things right now that a lot of people aren't doing and he's making his own course for those of you who want to get a little bit more educated. |
| 1:59.8 | He has his own course on the power athlete HQ dot com. You guys can check out. And he has you know a whole bunch of different training modules and he's teaching people all sorts of stuff. |
| 2:07.8 | Whether they're just a regular coach or they're you know getting their doctorate in college. So he has great great information to spread to the world. |
| 2:15.8 | And he's just an awesome dude. So we're going to talk. You're going to hear him talk about all sorts of things here and there. |
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