Kevin Love | How Yoga Can Make You a Better Athlete

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🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When Kevin Love, power forward of the Cleveland Cavaliers, was drafted into the NBA in 2008, he needed to find a way to handle the physical and mental demands of playing at the pro level. Today, Kevin isn’t just a five-time NBA all-star or a 2016 NBA champion -- he’s also an avid yoga practitioner and an advocate for mental health. By incorporating yoga into his daily training routine, Kevin has come to understand the “mind-body connection” -- that taking time to breathe, to meditate, to set an intention, no matter how small, can have huge impacts on all facets of fitness. On this episode of TRAINED, Kevin tells us about how his early sports experiences have helped him stay competitive, how his approach to nutrition, recovery, and sleep has changed over the course of his career, and how he plans to keep playing basketball for as long as he can.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to Trained.
0:02.0	At Nike we believe that greatness isn't born, it's trained.
0:05.0	And that means more than just a workout.
0:07.0	Each episode will bring you conversations with leading experts
0:10.0	in what we call the five facets of fitness.
0:12.0	Training, recovery, nutrition, mindset, and sleep.
0:17.0	I'm Ryan Flaherty, senior director of Performance at Nike.
0:20.0	I train some of the world's best athletes, like Sequan Barkley, Russell Wilson, and Marcus Mario.
0:25.0	Today we're talking about the value of holistic training.
0:29.0	Helping other modalities into your routine and specifically yoga can help you make progress towards your goals.
0:34.0	You're listening to Trained, presented by Nike.
0:43.0	Whether it's discomfort or holding a stretch for a good amount of time or getting the flow and having to towards the end,
0:49.0	really having to breathe and open up certain parts of your body that teaches me mentally to kind of live with the same hurt.
0:57.0	Like if you get to a certain spot where it gets really tough and it's not going to get any tougher,
1:02.0	you just have to learn to live in that moment, breathe, think in that moment, decision-making, that sort of thing.
1:07.0	And I think that can be applicable.
1:09.0	All of those things can be applicable to what I do on the basketball court.
1:13.0	That's Kevin Love, five time NBA All-Star, 2016 NBA champion, and power forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
1:21.0	Kevin is one of the top basketball players on the court today.
1:24.0	Part of the way he got there was by expanding his training regimen beyond just basketball.
1:28.0	Kevin understands the importance of holistic training and is a dedicated practitioner of yoga.
1:33.0	He got started with the practice shortly after his rookie season and was hooked.
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