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Episode 286: Brooks Laich on Being the Best at Getting Better โ and Why He's Now Building the World's Playground
The Athletes Podcast โ Episode 286 Some conversations you finish and immediately want to run through a wall. This was one of them. For episode 286, I sat down with Brooks Laich โ 776 NHL games across 14 seasons with the Washington Capitals, Maple Leafs, Kings, and Senators, a Calder Cup champion in Hershey under our episode 100 guest Bruce Boudreau, and now the founder of World Playground, a booking platform on a mission to make travel affordable for everyone. He's also, by h
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The Secret of Athleticism: Chong Xie on Fascia, the Foot-to-Glutes Connection, and Why Elite Athletes Don't Need Big Muscles
Listen now ๐ง The Athletes Podcast โ Episode 276: Chong Xie Apple ยท Spotify ยท YouTube Four months. 50 to 60 percent more punching power. That's the measurable change Chong Xie's Hyperarch Fascia Training (HFT) produced in a then-future UFC strawweight champion before she fought the reigning ex-champion. They measured it on a device that quantifies punch pressure. The number wasn't a feeling. It was data. "Our biggest goal was to make her more fascia-driven. Increase her punch
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Jun 911 min read
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Inside Performance Science With the Lakers' S&C Coach: Dr. Brandon Pentheny on Capacity vs. Utilization, the Data That Actually Matters, and Why LeBron Is the Outlier You Shouldn't Copy
Listen now ๐ง The Athletes Podcast โ Episode 277: Dr. Brandon Pentheny Apple ยท Spotify ยท YouTube There's a thing every fitness podcast and every Instagram fitness account does that, by Brandon Pentheny's reckoning, slowly poisons the development of every athlete who isn't a generational outlier: "If you look at any data points for any athletes, like โ he's the outlier. You can't relate that guy to the rest of this group. It doesn't fit the generalizable trend." He's talking a
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Jun 410 min read
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