The Athletes Podcast — 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 — 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 his own cheerful...

Listen now 🎧 The Athletes Podcast — Episode 276: Chong Xie Apple · Spotify · 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 punching power,...

Listen now 🎧 The Athletes Podcast — Episode 277: Dr. Brandon Pentheny Apple · Spotify · 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 — 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 about LeBron...