Tom Morris: Resilience Mindset, Controlling the Controllables, and Achieving Goals Regardless of Circumstance
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Tom Morris is in his 16th year within the Indiana Strength and Conditioning department of Indiana University, serving as the senior Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic Performance for the department of intercollegiate athletics. He is responsible for the development and implementation of sport specific strength, conditioning, flexibility, speed, and agility programs for Indiana's 24 men's and women's NCAA Division I programs including the 8x national champion men’s soccer program.
In 2012, Tom suffered a catastrophic injury that changed everything. We get to learn all about this life threatening event and how Tom now uses his energy and passion for life to show others that anything is attainable if you just start and never give up.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | You got it. |
| 0:13.5 | You're going to stop it. |
| 0:16.4 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Element. |
| 0:20.4 | Look, let me be straight up. |
| 0:22.5 | We're going into summer. |
| 0:23.7 | It's like hot, sweaty, dye in your garage gym, hot. |
| 0:27.7 | Plus all the athletes in summer programs, getting ready for fall. |
| 0:31.2 | One of the things is happening, everyone's sweating balls. |
| 0:33.5 | No one is replacing electrolytes. |
| 0:35.5 | Like no one. |
| 0:36.2 | Protein, that's good. |
| 0:55.2 | But if you're not putting the salts back in, I guarantee you're missing out on hydration, on focus, the whole thing. Like, you cannot take this seriously enough. It makes such a difference. And even if you are drinking a lot of water, you may not actually be absorbing all the water. You're drinking. You may just be peeing it all out. |
| 1:12.0 | And that's one of the reasons why you want to add some salts to your water. Yeah, the hyponetriamate thing. I think we're seeing a lot of kids right now, a lot of young kids walk around like the gallon. And I'm not talking about a Borg, a blackout rage gallon. I'm just talking about a gallon of water. They're thinking, I got to drink this. but they are not thinking about replacing the salt. |
| 1:12.0 | And you are a bio about replacing the salt. |
| 1:14.8 | And you are a bio-electrical system. |
| 1:19.6 | The whole thing runs on a gradient that's driven by salt. |
| 1:20.4 | Let me just say that again. |
| 1:24.0 | If you are sweating hard, make sure you're adding some salts back. |
| 1:26.1 | And the best way to do that is to be entertained in your mouth. |
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