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Why do (some) pro athletes pick gimmicky strength and conditioning coaches? | One Good Question

50% Facts

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Business, Tv & Film, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Why do some pro athletes end up doing silly exercises with coaches whose qualifications seem mostly revolve around their social media following? Is it clout-seeking? Is it boredom with more conventional programs? This question came from a member of our 3SB discord, and we take our best shot at breaking it down. Have a question for us? Hit us up on social media and use the hashtag #onegoodquestion. If your question is picked, you’ll get something special from us! Join our Discord for free! Check out our gym (Third Street Barbell) at ThirdStreetBarbell.com and subscribe for updates about our apparel line at 3sb.co! Local memberships and international fresh fits! Get early access to our NEXT DROP! Check out our brand new podcast website: 50percentfacts.com Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Sam McDonald. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo (@jmanzo523)

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With Slack, you can time your people and tools together in one place. It's your digital

0:38.4

HQ where you can increase productivity, enable flexibility, and automate workflows. Plus,

0:44.2

Slack is full of game-changing features, like huddles for quick check-ins, or Slack Connect,

0:49.2

which helps you connect with partners inside and outside of your company. Slack. Where

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the future works get started at slack.com slash d h q

1:06.9

welcome to dumb questions only I'm your dumb host. Yeah, I'm

1:09.9

calling it one good question. Mike's calling it dumb

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questions only it's only because people say there's no such

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thing as a dumb question. Yeah, this is this is the Friday

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show. All training right now with a topic thunder we're on a

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break with topic thunder we'll be back with that one that's a

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panel show in which we do something similar but right now

1:30.9

we're trying to give an actual answer. I think we topic thunder

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we just like to have fun with the topic. So yeah, I don't think

1:37.6

I don't often think in general, but on topic thunder I'm

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definitely not thinking there's no filter. Yeah, between the

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