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Alexi Pappas Is Bravey

The Rich Roll Podcast

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Your Body Never Hate You, Right?

"Your body never hates you. Can't be true, right? I hope not," she says. "It's sort of a kind of a aquipunctury, kind of ivatic way of looking at things." She was forced to quit the track team when she was 15 years old because her coach didn't like multi-sport athletes. Her advice: Pay more attention and that the body wants you to succeed.

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Speaker 2
I've never thought of that. I mean, it's, it's sort of a kind of a aquipunctury, kind of ivatic way of looking at things. Like everything, you know, your body is this organism that's trying to always find its balance point, right? And when something's out of balance, there will be some kind of om that might show up in it in a very unpredictable and different way. Than you might suspect. That has nothing to do with whatever is actually wrong right itself, right? It's just, it's a little glimmer, a glimpse into paying more attention
Speaker 1
and that the body wants you to succeed, right? It's not, i feel like so often were like, my body hates me to day. And it's like, your body never hates you. Can't be true, right? I
Speaker 3
hope not.
Speaker 1
I hope not. And so maybe we shift our folk, you know, maybe we shift to feeling like our body's rooting for us, and it's telling us in all the languages that it knows. It
Speaker 2
can be mad at us, ye,
Speaker 1
it could be frustrated ram by always trying to help, right? Im, that's
Speaker 2
a very optimistic, cool way to look at it. Yead,
Speaker 1
i've shared that with like, alid athlete friends, and it's really when they think back to an injury, um, they can recall, like, i had a canker shore that week. And now we, we, and my small satellite teamike teamate community, we pay better attention to our faces. M, that's
Speaker 2
a good practice. A, well, let's let's go back a little bit. You know, let's talk about you growing up with your dad. Back to the kind of david epsten range thing, like you weren't, you know, a track stand out from the gicko. You were playing all different kinds of sports. You were like a socker stand out originally, right? And dabbling in track. But then you were forced to, like quit the track team, or you got fired from the track team because you wouldn't go all in on that and let go of the other sports.
Speaker 1
Correct? There were a, there was leadership at my high school that felt in running we needed to not do anything else. There were other sports where it felt like athletes, particularly male athletes, were embraced for being multi sport athletes. But i was definitely not embraced in that way. And because i was not willing, o, at 15 years old, o quit socker and student government and all these other things, i was like de facto kicked off the running team. And and i was good. I was like one of the top runners in the state. But i didn't love running at that age because i didn't love the the team. There was no team environment, om that which is my favorite part about sports. It didn't feel positive. The coach, jus, it wasn't a positive environment. So i naturally did not feel like i could
Speaker 2
specialize.

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