Nic Gill: Health Your Kids
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Nic Gill has been the head strength and conditioning coach for the New Zealand All Blacks for the last 11 years, a time of great international success including World Cup titles in 2011 and 2015. In addition, Nic is a wellness and fitness consultant to numerous international corporations as well as a limited number of individuals. He continues to refine his philosophy through research at the University of Waikato. Nic recently released his first book, Health Your Self, that aims to give practical knowledge to enable readers to build their own health and fitness plan. We talk with Nic about fitness, nutrition, and simple tweaks that are both reasonable and effective at improving health and wellbeing, all through the lens of raising healthy kids.
For more information on Nic, check out his website, blog, and follow him on Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:12.3 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:13.7 | And this is the Ready State. |
| 0:22.0 | On today's You got it. You've been to stop it. You've got it. |
| 0:23.2 | You've got it. |
| 0:24.0 | On today's episode of the Ready State, we are delighted to speak to Dr. Nick Gill, |
| 0:28.4 | who has served for the last 11 years as the head strength and conditioning coach for the New Zealand All Blacks during a period of extreme success where they won more than 120 rugby test wins in the World |
| 0:40.3 | Cup title in 2011 and 2015. |
| 0:42.6 | I really appreciate that you use the word test wins, like not games. It's very New Zealand |
| 0:46.1 | of you. Look, here's the deal. As a strengthening condition coach, performance coach, Nick is |
| 0:50.9 | literally working in the most high stakes, high performance group and probably the most famous team on the world. |
| 0:56.7 | And what's so cool is that he can be your own avatar. |
| 1:00.0 | He is my avatar. |
| 1:00.9 | When I think about the kind of dad I want to be, the athlete I want to be, the coach I want to be, Nick Gill pops up us all three. |
| 1:06.7 | He also just wrote a super awesome and practical book called Health Yourself, which is for regular |
| 1:12.2 | people just trying to make simple tweaks to their health, nutrition, fitness regimes. |
| 1:17.4 | Yeah, and what's amazing about his take on the fitness health landscape is that even though |
| 1:22.4 | he's got one foot rooted in university, he's a professor, he's working on this high performance, |
| 1:26.2 | he's written a guidebook around health for families. And what I really think is impressive here is if you flip this up, |
| 1:33.0 | you're going to run into all of the concepts we talk about sleep and stress and just eating denser. |
| 1:37.8 | And he's got some really great ideas here. But I see a little suspect this is waging war on the |
| 1:43.0 | rest of the world to try to create super |
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