Jamie Moyer had a dream like career in Major league Baseball.

As a starting pitcher he spent 25 years in the Big Leagues and played on 9 different teams.  By the end of his career he had amassed 269 wins and an ERA of 4.25. A rare and remarkable achievement.

But I believe his biggest most lofty accomplishment was his breaking the ML record for being the oldest player to win a game as a starter at the age of 49. 

In 2015 he was inducted into the Mariner Hall of Fame to add to his resume. Though Jamie didn’t possess a blinding fast ball as many of his successful contemporaries did, he did possess many other success building assets.

Jamie was as smart a pitcher as ever there ever was which was realized by endless preparation before each game. His consistent studying the opposing hitters before each game was part of his game plan.

His work ethic was second to none as he took great pride in making sure he was ready for each start, physically and mentally.

Listen in and I’m sure you will come away with a couple of insightful tips you can apply in any area of your life.

In this episode Jamie touches on :

• How paying attention to his body helped him have a longer career
• What it took to become the oldest pitcher to win a Major league game
• His insights on overtraining and how it can lead to injury and keeping you out of the game.
• How spending time preparing for games ( or any life event ) is a cornerstone of success.
• How to use your mind to guide your to your goals

This week I talk with Lindsey Wilson, a dynamic and passionate mental training coach and principal of Positive Performance. She consuls athletic teams, individual athletes and organizations how go beyond their mental roadblocks to become who they can be. 

I first met Lindsey years ago as a teenager who was driven to be her best physically for her beloved sport of basketball.  In that first encounter I knew she was and would be a force to be reckoned with in the future. I was right.

After a stellar career playing basketball at Iowa State in which she earned honorable mention as an All American among other prestigious awards, she was drafted by the WNBA Connecticut Sun and then played another 8 years abroad in Europe and the Middle East. By many coaches she was described as “relentless” in her on the court play.

Today she’s still relentless and driven to help those who wish to go beyond their minds and preconceived ideas of who they can become. 

If you want to become better and learn her mental techniques to reach the next level of performance and ultimate potential please listen to this podcast with Lindsey Wilson.

You won’t regret it.

On Thursday August 3, 2017, Antonio Arguelles completed the Northern channel swim from Northern Ireland to Scotland. This was his 7th and last channel swim to complete the Oceans Seven: the 7 hardest channel swims in the world. The equivalent in the climbing world is summiting the 7 peaks over 8000m. In this his final swim of 21 miles in 55 degree waters, eating steamed potatoes every 30 minutes while he treaded water he finally reached his goal over 13 hours later. 

With the 7th channel swim complete, his named was emblazoned on a very short list of people who had reached this goal. Number 7th to ever swim the Oceans Seven, first Latin American, and most impressively - the oldest at 58 years old.

 In this episode Antonio shares a wealth of knowledge, insights and motivation. We touch on:

• His mental training techniques which kept him going in the water during the tough times.
• The importance of a holistic dry land training program to swimming further
• How Tai chi and Qigong helped altered his mind body connection.
• His most important reasons he wants to stay fit today.

I had a bromance with Sean the moment I met him. Talented, present and passionate but most of all I was drawn to his energy and ethos of life. He lives his life with a central mantra in mind : help people become their best and most authentic selves.

As a Life Coach he guides people to go beyond preconceived ideas of who they are and discover their highest and happiest selves. As an entrepreneur he created Float Seattle and Bellevue 5 years ago. Float offers  sensory deprivation tanks where you literally float in salt infused water. The benefits of stress relief, pain relief and a meditative time out from our busy lives.

I think of Float as being another offering fully in alignment with Sean’s vision of offering people ways to live a richer fuller life.

 In the podcast Sean touches on :

• His beliefs on the life changing benefits of meditation   
• His daily practice of weaving in downtime to get more done and becoming better in all you do.
• Why it’s a mistake to glorify being busy.
• How to maintain and optimize your ‘temple’ body.
• His secret to how to kick ass every day

Any time I get hang out with Dan Wilson, or Dan the Man, as his former Seattle Mariner teammates would call him, It’s a super stoked day for me. Dan spent 11 years with the Seattle Mariners as their All Star catcher and by the time he retired in 2005 he could claim a total of 13 years in the big leagues. For the last 4 years Dan has worked as a roving coach for the catchers on Mariners minor league teams. But more recently the  major league players are his students as well. 

Voted into the Mariners Hall of fame in 2012. Dan today is still one of the all time sports star icons in the history of Seattle not just because of sports but because of who he is as a person and the goodness he has given to the community.

In this podcast Dan shares:

• The key teachings he received from his mentors and how they guided him into reaching ever higher levels of physical performance.
• His method today for teaching young players how to reach their physical and mental potential. ( applicable to all btw )
• How he deals with injuries and setbacks
• The notable attributes of players like Edgar Martinez and Ken Griffey Jr with whom he played with
• And a whole lot more!

I’ve known Jeff since the early 90s when he owned a studio in Seattle  called Inside Moves. It was home to one of his passions, Aikido, in which he was very accomplished, yoga classes, as well as his work as Feldenkrais practitioner. And as soon found out, a very gifted one at that. Jeff’s role as a teacher has had a tremendous impact on my understanding of human movement, and how I work with people today. I only wish I knew him during my own career as an athlete.

In his words “Every day I am enriched by helping my clients to discover their own implicit ability to learn; helping them refine their own function, and enhancing the quality of their lives in ways that are simple yet profound.”

 He studied with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais directly, and in 1983, founded Inside Moves. He has a successful and fulfilling private practice working with a wide variety of clients ranging from those with severe disabilities to martial artists, dancers, rock climbers, PGA golfers and NHL hockey players.

Dr. Robert Schoene, aka Brownie, is a man of many talents and a vast reservoir of knowledge. Professionally, he teaches students, residents, fellows in training, athletes, and patients with heart and lung disease the importance of understanding exercise physiology in improving their own lives. A wealth of knowledge and experience which will leave listeners of this Life Athlete podcast are in for a real treat.

An avid and gifted athlete, he played football at Princeton, climbed Mt. Everest (to the 24K foot level) as part of a high altitude research  expedition, and being the aerobic animal he is, he’s run a sub 3 hour marathon.

In this podcast Brownie gives his take on:

• The effects of aging on cardiovascular capacity and how we can stay aerobically fit no matter what.
• Debunking myths and BS about current fitness trends.
• you can improve strength and cardiovascular in your 50, 60s just like you could in your 30s. 
• What's the most efficient way to increase your anaerobic threshold.
• How to get the most out of interval training without over training.

 Enjoy!

Mark Langston, a 4-time All-Star pitcher and 7-time Gold Glove winner, played the game he loved for 16 years with the Seattle Mariners, California Angels, Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres and the Cleveland Indians . Mark and I first crossed paths when we both employed by the Seattle Mariners. I was the strength and conditioning coach. He a starting pitcher. At a time in baseball's history where weight training or any kind of training was generally frowned upon, Mark was like a sponge. He was all in from the beginning, wanting to learn and become the best he could be. That determined attitude undoubtedly resulted in his long and distinguished career.

Today he’s still in game of baseball as a color commentator for the Los Angeles Angels broadcast network. Though his years as a dominant lefty on the mound are behind him, he’s still as passionate about exploring the cutting edge of staying healthy, vital and being the best he can be.

Mark and I touch on a ton of topics in this podcast including :

• His experimenting with stem cell therapy for his knee
• Maintaining a positive and curious attitude no matter what
• How be believes you should always be striving to be the best
• His passion around lifelong learning from others who have been there.
• How he mentally deals with the aging body

Gregg Bleakney has a story that’s worth listening to. Why? Because his life thus far, has never about playing it safe and staying inside the box. Gregg is man of high passion for creating a life steeped in purpose, expansion and internal integrity. When you hear his tale you will definitely see he has not taking the road most taken. Just the opposite.  

Today Gregg lives mostly in Colombia where a runs Where Next growing agency whose sole focus is to help other tell their stories.  Using visual imagery and adept writing, he creates unique ways for businesses to tell the world who they are by sharing their deepest passions. 

From a gifted triple jumper in track and field, at the University of Oregon, our shared alma mater, to an injury which cut short his career his story just continues to thicken. After a few years he gives up a job in the tech world and follows his gut, bought a bike and over two years he would ride from the top of the world - Alaska to the tip of South America. A remarkable, rich journey filled with self discovery, self doubt, he lands where he is today: Living a life he never thought he would and vastly more authentic. A story of making gut decisions, following your heart, self inspiration, learning through travel and a lot more. Don’t miss this one.    

Tyson Schoene grew up in a climbing family in Seattle. He is a lifelong athlete who spends much of his time in the mountains and running trails around the northwest.  He currently runs the 5-Time National Champion Vertical World climbing team. For the last 16 years at Vertical World Tyson has produced over a dozen individual national champions, dozens of national team members along with yearly regional and divisional titles.

Tyson has also been on the coaching staff for the US national team since 2005 and travels throughout the world for youth world championships and World Cup events. Tyson’s energized and passionate thoughts on coaching, life and how to be in your body are insightful and invigorating. He’s a breath of fresh air in his approach to teaching his tribe, and all of us, how to find the easiest way to perform at higher level of physically, avoiding injury with a less is more philosophy, and how he applies these to his own body and life.