In this episode of Cured Collective Podcast, we sit down with Jeff Lovecchio for a thoughtful, inspiring, and well-rounded conversation. Jeff is a former NHL player and successfully played in the league for ten years. After a series of injuries ended his career, he learned to infuse his passion for movement into a thriving coaching business.

In the episode, Jeff describes his relationship with discipline and its onset at an incredibly early age. He explains how his commitment to outworking his fellow hockey players ultimately catalyzed his transformation into a professional player. While other kids were enjoying their summer or other young adults were going out for drinks, you could consistently find Jeff putting in time on the rink.

Throughout his many years spent training (and rehabilitating injuries), Jeff discovered gaps in the current model of athletic training and sports performance. Specifically, in the way athletes were training in the gym and how this wasn’t transferring to their performance in their sport. This inspired Jeff to not only reevaluate his own training methods, but to introduce the same functional, dynamic, power-focused movements to the athletes he now coaches in St. Louis, Missouri.

Wondering what this looks like? Just try sprinting at your max-out speed while trying to read a sign pinned on an adjacent wall. This episode is one that will inspire you to move your body in the way it was always designed to. Tune in!

“If you have kids and you’re listening to this, or if you want to have kids, put them in a team sport. Not because you want them to be a pro athlete, but because it is a metaphor for life and it teaches you all of the things you need to learn to be successful.” – Jeff Lovecchio

Key Highlights

• What initiated Jeff’s journey toward a career as an NHL athlete;
• What Jeff believes distinguished him from other athletes;
• Why discipline is the key to unlocking our minds’ and bodies’ ultimate potential;
• Jeff’s experience with concussions and traumatic brain injuries, and if he would change anything if he could go back in time;
• When Jeff first felt a passion for helping others learn how to reach their maximum potential;
• How Jeff rebuilt his confidence following one of his most serious concussions and injuries;
• How to understand the difference between ‘working harder’ and ‘working smarter’; 
• Which words of advice Jeff would offer to anyone currently in their twenties and thirties.

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Connect with Jeff!

Instagram: @jefflovecchio

Podcast: The Hockey Think Tank Podcast

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