Rai Braithwaite | WUW 446

Washed Up Walkons

Tyler Kluver

Sports, College Football, Ncaa Team, Nfl Draft, Big Ten, Athletes, Hawkeyes, Iowa

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Raimond Braithwaite is in his 19th year as a member of the strength and conditioning staff with the University of Iowa football program. He was named director in March, 2021, after being named interim director in June, 2020. Braithwaite was a member of the Iowa staff from 2002-04 and rejoined the Hawkeye program after serving as the head strength and conditioning coach at Delaware State (2005-07). In this episode Drake and Kevin catch up with Coach after years of being away from the weight room in Iowa City. They talk about his role in recruiting process, the complexities and nuance of running a D1 program like Iowa, the intensity of big lift days, the biggest freaks he has coached in the weight room, and a whole lot more.If you love the show and want to show support, tell your friends! And, check out our exclusive content at Patreon.com/washedupwalkons where you can find extra podcast episodes, exclusive merchandise, Merch discounts with every tier, private Walkon discord channel access, and more!Find us on social media @washedupwalkonsVisit TheWashedUpWalkons.com for all of our episodes, merchandise, and more!

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0:00.0	You just found the most entertaining Iowa podcast in the world and potentially the most legitimate
0:05.4	Iowa podcast. I mean with guests like this, it's hard to deny this is our third current Hawkeye coach of the summer,
0:13.0	head of Iowa Strength and Conditioning,
0:14.5	Ray Brathwaite joins the show.
0:16.0	It's also the first show I'm pretty sure
0:17.8	that I've never been on in 445 episodes.
0:21.2	Please enjoy Coach Ray. Let's have a day, let'm not. backwash to walk Khan's fans to another one of those days that can't really believe is happening on our podcast.
1:00.0	Today we get to sit down with somebody who I know Kevin and I have an extraordinary
1:07.1	amount of respect for somebody who was really one of the pivotal roles in shaping us as individuals, as men, as a team.
1:19.0	Man, we spent a lot of good time together, a lot of hard time together, really, really special memories coming from the newly minted, well not newly minted now, but semi-newly minted,
1:37.0	King of Strength Conditioning, Coach Ray Braithwaite,
1:41.0	welcome to the podcast, man. This is pretty awesome.
1:43.4	All right. Thanks for having me guys. I really appreciate it. Good to be here.
1:48.2	What was your immediate reaction when you found out of three ding Dongs started a podcast.
1:53.8	Well, I know you Three Ding Dongs well.
1:57.1	So I kind of chuckled, but it fit.
2:00.2	It was wildly appropriate and the reason that one of the ding dongs isn't here and I waited to tell coach Ray this until we were rolling
2:10.0	Cluever missed podcast with you coach for the Crossfit games that he's not even in he's just watching
2:16.4	That the respect I love it
2:18.8	But he might even participate and couldn't be bothered to show up
2:21.9	No, couldn't own in couldn't nothing nothing can't be bothered show up. No.
2:23.0	Couldn't, nothing.
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