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Power Athlete Radio – Episode 71: Tom Kanavy

Power Athlete Radio

Power Athlete

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2014

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

What do you get when you bring John Welbourn and his old strength coach together? Pure DEBAUCHERY! This week the Power Athlete Crew has fun sitting down and talking shop with Legendary NFL Strength and Conditioning Coach Tom Kanavy on Episode 71. They discuss interesting topics like program design, how big of an impact Gatorade… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

This is Power Athlete Radio.

0:07.0

With your host, Denny K.

0:10.0

Professor Boo-Yoo-Y and the Luke Summers.

0:14.0

And now toes forward, hips locked,

0:18.0

shoulders set, and retract those scrupululums it's time for the knowledge bombs

0:28.5

what's happening in power athlete nation welcome to episode 71 of Power Athlete Radio.

0:38.9

I got a good one today, as always.

0:42.3

Tom Canavy, former Strength and Conditioning coach of the Minnesota Vikings,

0:48.3

20 plus years in the field of strength and conditioning joins us today.

0:53.2

And I have the man himself, John Wellborn. What's happening? Summers. What's up? Tex McQuilkin. What's happening, gentlemen? I don't get a thee in front of my name. No, text, you got to earn that. Not yet, yeah. It takes a high school stage. You can't have a D's either. Well, that and also, you know, you can't refer to anybody as the that gives himself their own nickname. This was not a, this was a gift, John. I never gave it to myself. Hey, this is Tom Kennedy. You guys, thanks for having me on, man. It's a pleasure. Tommy, it's great to finally get you on the podcast. You've been after you for about a year since we started this thing to get you on here. Not only because not only one of the more knowledgeable people we've ever had on this deal, especially in terms of professional strength coaches, you know, 20 years experience, but also one of my personal favorite people on the planet Tom Canaby so we have a lot of

1:45.2

history and I've been friends for a long time and hopefully we'll reveal some really good

1:49.0

stories especially the one about Metallica coming off stages I see Tommy Canevy handing

1:53.8

them towels and high-fiving James Hetfield and the guys so hey hey hey if it requires

1:59.1

publishing a good story go right ahead ahead. I'm with you.

2:02.6

Hey, that's, John, that's where that picture comes from that's been posted on the football site.

2:07.6

Yeah, that's where that one, we were at a veteran stadium, last show at the vet for Metallica.

2:12.7

And we're like side stage. Everybody's having a great time. Tommy was there. And all of a sudden, we look up on stage and like, we're kind of stage everybody's having a great time Tommy was there and all of a sudden

2:18.3

we look up on stage and like we're kind of off to the side and all of a sudden I see like

2:22.8

behind the stage I can see Canady back there like rocking out all of a sudden Metallica finishes

2:28.3

and they come off and I see Canady handing them towels and like the guys are like high five

2:32.7

and I'm like how the fuck did he get up

2:35.3

there and is he handing those guys towels you want to know how that happened John real quick

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