

Power Athlete Radio
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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Jan 19, 2019 • 2h 4min
PA Radio – Episode 294: Robb Wolf
The Wolf and the Kraken Robb Wolf has a way of explaining things so that the layman can understand complex ideas. Maybe that’s why his humble little podcast, The Paleo Solution, has gained traction throughout the years among intelligent contemporaries in the field and idiots like us. This week Robb breaks down some of the…
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Jan 12, 2019 • 2h 10min
PA Radio – Episode 293: Dr Chris Morris
Fluid Periodization f you’re over the age of 30, you didn’t go to high school and college consumed with the stress associated with social media. You certainly didn’t give a shit about the number of likes you received from people you never talked to. You liked rollerblading with your CD walkman to Dave Matthews Band.…
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Jan 5, 2019 • 1h 24min
PA Radio – Episode 292: Josh Bridges
Relying on Athleticism It’s officially January in 2019 and that means the masses have finally decided to get their shit together, if only for the next 2 weeks. While you’re slurping down six new supplements from Amazon, adjusting the unforgiving crotch on your compression pants, and making sure your drone gets a 360 of your…
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Dec 28, 2018 • 1h 36min
PA Radio – Episode 291: John Welbourn
WOD harder than me, bro. What do Johnnie WOD [@JohnnieWOD] and Dirk Diggler have in common? Everything. Don’t take your “fitness” self too serious and just WOD hard, bro. This week John talks a little year-in-review recounting the history of the Boogie Nights inspired, tongue in cheek, program. John also reflects on how his perspective…
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Dec 23, 2018 • 1h 19min
PA Radio – Episode 290: The Crew
Santa Trains Speed Too That’s right. This week Luke and Tex talk deliberate training through many of the programs we utilize to develop bad motherfuckers. Your questions about the evolution of CrossFit Football into Johnnie WOD, why we choose the Power Athlete Metabolic Circuit once a year, and our three biggest battles of bullshit. Is…
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Dec 15, 2018 • 1h 47min
PA Radio – Episode 289: 2018 PA Symposium
2018 Power Athlete Symposium Coming to you LIVE (but also pre-recorded) this week! John, Luke, Tex, and Cali gather round the old podcast table for our annual airing of grievances. John shares his vision of expanding the farm to include a go-kart obstacle course. Luke talks “negotiations” with an aspiring Power Athlete from the Ukraine.…
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Dec 8, 2018 • 1h 15min
PA Radio – Episode 287: Marc Effron
Become a High Performer Performance whores come in many forms. Marc Effron is the kind that is obsessed with getting people fire on all cylinders. Much like the PA approach to athleticism, Marc focuses on finding where a person or business is deficient and then attacking the weakness. Through his years developing high performers in…
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Nov 30, 2018 • 1h 10min
PA Radio – Episode 288: Dr John Wagle
A Real Cluster-Fuck Accentuated eccentric loading, velocity based training, and clusters….oohh baby. This week’s episode with Dr. John Wagle [@drjohnpwagle] will satisfy your need for speed. Hear how he studied the squat as a vehicle for testing velocity. His method was tested using weight releasers and cluster sets and what he found was that adding 30…
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Nov 23, 2018 • 1h 54min
PA Radio – Episode 286: Stan Efferding
Stimulate, Don’t Annihilate Nothing could me more apropos than having nutrition master, Stan Efferding [@StanEfferding] on the show on Thanksgiving week. While you’ve been shoveling food into your gullet, we’ve been preparing a tasty little episode of Power Athlete Radio. If you consider yourself a nutrition nerd or you’ve been throwing darts aimlessly trying to…
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Nov 17, 2018 • 1h 23min
PA Radio – Episode 285: The Crew
Last Action Hero Training on the road with very little equipment, convincing sport coaches that lifting won’t ruin specificity, keeping your relationship on the rails…yeah, these are all topics discussed on this week’s episode. Will Tex get his whole torso waxed in front of a live studio audience? He hasn’t refused outright. Will we be…
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