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The life of a college or professional strength coach is fraught with highs and lows.

In an industry, dependent on so many variables outside your control, it's a wonder why anyone would build a career on a team's wins and losses.

But that's exactly what Aaron OwsmithSmith successfully did at several universities.

However, Aaron will tell you firsthand that you don't know coaching until you know why you're doing it.

Hear how Aaron put together his own training and coaching philosophy that would eventually lead him to spearhead his own program.

As Aaron states, the time when you learn the most is when you are in charge.

Aaron is now part of the tight-knit crew of Sorenex, still coaching, and being a resource for athletes looking for that guidance.

This former thrower knows what it's like to coach oneself, and after all of his experience in athletics, he believes that mentoring is one of the greatest gifts a coach can provide.

This is episode 163.

Our athlete nation, what is up?

You got Luke Texan John here in SoCal, and we have our neighbor on the line, Mr. Aaron

Austin is out in Redondo Beach

right now. He's dialing in. We're going to be chat with him here, our athlete radio, the world's

premier strength and conditioning podcast. So Aaron, what's going on, man? Aaron works with

Sorenx. That's how he got connected with him. He's got a pretty amazing journey from being a national champion thrower to being an S&C coach and now he's the

man behind behind the scenes at Sorenx who's building out these amazing gyms that you

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