In this episode of the Athletic Philosopher Podcast I take you inside my mind as I apply it to my specific race training. Using Aristotle as my inspiration, I know that if you aim at the nature of the activity it's full potential opens up to you. When I begin training for any competition I don't start with physical preparedness, I try to uncover that center. Then I aim the physical training towards it.

For the Backyard Ultra that means I've focused on two key ideals that help me prepare for a Last Man Standing Race where we run a 4 1/6th mile loop on the hour every hour. 

Listen and hear what they are and how you can better understand whatever competition you're training for from a philosophic angle to improve your training. 

Episode 5 dives deep into the importance of honesty in sport in outcomes, effort, and identity.

In a world of posturing, signaling, lies, manipulation, and self delusions, sports provide us honest feedback about ourselves that no other activity can match.

The honest effort of our bodies in motion, through training and competing, gives us truthful information about who we are and what we value. 

You've never explored the truth through sports like this before, and it will have you wanting to train and compete as the best ways to 'know yourself.' And that's where wisdom comes from afterall! 

This episode was inspired by a Tribal Cafe podcast conversation on assuming our athletic identities (link below).

There are so many youth athletes who we told to give up their athletic dreams and they drift without meaning as adults. I explore why this matters and how people can rediscover that identity and let it reemerge authentically.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/79-tribal-cafe-feel-like-an-athlete-around-the-clock/id1556189673?i=1000665170333

In this episode I dive deep into the common misunderstanding adults have around the concept of 'play' and provide a new way of thinking about its role and importance.

After spending a week playing with my daughter, it struck me that adults need to be creative, imaginative, expressive, and playful, just like kids. When it comes to sports, we find the opposite pressure from society, that we should consume them as proper 'adult' play. I propose a different way forward

'The moment of athletic perfection is an act of personal transcendence' 

I use this phrase all the time to describe incredible sports highlights that bring us out of our seat cheering with excitement.

In this podcast, I dive deep into where this idea comes from, how it makes deep sense, and how you need to think about and apply this idea in your life for deep meaning and purpose through sport.

Welcome to my new adventure into the world of podcasting.

As a former university professor I'm trained in talking about ideas, having conversations, and presenting information in a useful way. 

Hosting a podcast is a natural way for me to spread my knowledge of sport in a way that's easy to access and apply directly.

This first episode is just an introduction into this evolving experiment.

Thanks for coming along on the ride!