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Power Athlete
Welcome to Power Athlete Radio. A podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every damn day. Join former NFL pro and Power Athlete Founder John Welbourn as he dissects the greatest minds in strength & conditioning and more. So whether your goal is to Be The Hammer, Destroy Mediocrity or simply Move The Dirt, you’ve come to the right place.
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Feb 11, 2021 • 26min
Ep 454 – How (Not) to Write Your Our Training Program
John and Tex get excited for a caller that is questioning whether the undulating periodization linear progression program he wrote for himself is really the reason his lifts are improving. Get your notepads ready as The Crew takes this Secret Squirrel to programming school.
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Feb 9, 2021 • 31min
Ep 453 – Trap Training Tips for Pencil Necks
Traps are the “shock absorbers” and “buttresses” for the neck. John and Tex draw connections across movement selection, rep schemes, and points of performance to ensure no one following a Power Athlete program has a pencil neck for long.
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Feb 6, 2021 • 2h 26min
EP 452 – Jason Dunn’s Chief Concerns
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday Ahhhhh yeahhhhh. Jason Dunn [jdungeondog] is here to talk football with JWelly and reminisce about the days playing for Kansas City. There’s no better way to pre-game for the big game than tuning in to hear these NFL legends exchange stories and experiences about their time playing the greatest sport of all.…
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Feb 4, 2021 • 1h 20min
Ep 451 – NFL Combine Cancelation Ripple Effect w/ Derek Hansen
Derek Hansen joins John and Tex to explore the weight of the NFL Combine cancelation and what it means to players and coaches alike. If this really was just a dog and pony show for teams to make sure you were who they thought you were, then the League will be fine. Or will we see a performance and injury butterfly effect for seasons to come?!
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Feb 2, 2021 • 1h 36min
Ep 450 – The Crew Celebrates 8 Years of the Premiere Podcast in Strength & Conditioning
-ing -ing And just like that, Power Athlete Radio turns 8 years old!💪🥳 A lot of developmental milestones happen by the age of eight. The capability to completely dress and groom themselves, improved attention span resisting urges to bring up random movies like Twister, and the podcast is more for quality content than to learn…
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Jan 30, 2021 • 1h 56min
EP 449 – Ashleigh VanHouten Has Guts
Nose to Tail Do organ meats scare you? They should. Their nutritional value is scary good. But this week’s guest, Ashleigh VanHouten [@TheMuscleMaven] doesn’t want you to fear what you don’t understand. That’s why she’s feeeeeding you the recipes that will make the idea of eating organ meats that much more digestible. If you think…
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Jan 28, 2021 • 52min
Ep 448 – A Coach’s Guide To The Galaxy & Making Your Own Meaning in Life
Go to seek a Great Perhaps. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move, but not by these two wonders. A great debate between Luke and Tex was sparked in the Fall of 2014 over the galactic calendar and how…
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Jan 26, 2021 • 50min
Ep 447 – Words Are Hollow, A True Mentor Is In The Fight With You
Spoon feeding teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon January is National Mentoring Month and The Crew sits down to discuss the magnitude of having a person in your life who sees more talent and ability within you than you see in yourself who then helps you realize that potential. John and Tex…
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Jan 23, 2021 • 1h 32min
EP 446 – Peak Performance with Steven Kotler
Up Your Game with Biology Steven Kotler [@Kotler.Steven] has spent 30 years researching human performance at its peak. He’s worked with hundreds of the highest caliber athletes and been involved in countless studies to decode performance. With his most recent book, The Art of Impossible, Kotler lays out a framework for using your innate biology…
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Jan 21, 2021 • 32min
EP 445 – Weight Loss Shouldn’t Leave You Skinny Fat
In this episode the Crew dials the voicemail to answer a question from a loyal Power Athlete Radio listener: What’s up, Power Athlete Nation? My name is Marat. I’m thirty-seven years old calling from New Jersey and I have a weird little question. Maybe not. I went through a wide range of body composition and…
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