Rebecca Rusch: The Role of Fear
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Rusch has famously been dubbed "The Queen of Pain" and is one of the toughest athletes in the world. Her litany of accomplishments literally defies belief. She's a seven-time World Champion in multiple sports, four-time Leadville 100 MTB Champion, the first person to ride the entire length of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the list goes on. We asked Rebecca on to talk about fear. In thinking about raising kids, as well as training high-performance athletes, we've developed a fascination and respect for the role fear plays in helping us all grow and be our best selves. We've started to think of training for fear and becoming fear-adapted as a vital component of any training plan.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:14.0 | And this is the Ready State. |
| 0:16.0 | You got it. You've got it. You've got it. You've been to stop it. |
| 0:23.1 | You've got it. |
| 0:23.7 | You've got it. Hey, everyone. |
| 0:24.7 | Welcome back to the Ready State. |
| 0:26.2 | We've got a great episode for you today. |
| 0:28.2 | And it's going to tie together some of the conversations we've been talking about. |
| 0:31.9 | Mainly is how do we create really stable, really capable young athletes and develop those athletes into really strong, capable, risk-taking people. |
| 0:41.2 | One of the hallmarks of the relationship that Juliet and I have is that it is based on fear. |
| 0:46.5 | Now, let me explain that a little bit. |
| 0:49.1 | Not really sure what you're talking about, but let's hear it. |
| 0:50.8 | It turns out Juliet and I met at the World Championships for Whitewater paddling in an environment that was was chaotic and frankly, fear-inducing with some of the biggest whitewater in the world. |
| 0:58.0 | So one of the questions is, how do we introduce that level of discomfort and a little bit of fear? How do we indoctrinate our kids so their fear adapted? |
| 1:07.0 | Well, it turns out that when we look at that, what we're really talking about is creating a real, |
| 1:11.6 | well-rounded person and one of the most well-rounded athletes we know, who also is a master of dealing with fear and pain, turns out to be one of Juliet's best friends. |
| 1:18.6 | And that's Rebecca Rush. |
| 1:20.6 | Rebecca Rush, also known as the Queen of Pain, is one of the baddest athletes on Earth. |
| 1:26.6 | The litany of accomplishments she has |
| 1:29.0 | athletically sort of defies logic. She was a Whitewater National and World Champion. |
| 1:33.9 | She competed in tons of adventure racing, cross-country skiing events, and she didn't even |
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