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Performance Driven Athlete
PDA Coaches & Friends: Ben Plotnicki & Chris Rasnake
31 episodes
4 months ago
Welcome to the Performance Driven Athlete Podcast, where you can join us as we talk about subjects that wil help you unlock your personal human and athletic potential. Our aim is to educate you the listener on everything from living healhty to landing personal bests in the sport of your choice and everything in between. We discuss how to reduce stress, to improving movement quality, to setting PR's to what it takes to look better naked. We have years and years of health and fitness knowledge ...
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Nutrition
Health & Fitness,
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Welcome to the Performance Driven Athlete Podcast, where you can join us as we talk about subjects that wil help you unlock your personal human and athletic potential. Our aim is to educate you the listener on everything from living healhty to landing personal bests in the sport of your choice and everything in between. We discuss how to reduce stress, to improving movement quality, to setting PR's to what it takes to look better naked. We have years and years of health and fitness knowledge ...
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Nutrition
Health & Fitness,
Fitness
Episodes (20/31)
Performance Driven Athlete
Are You Addicted To Conditioning
Welcome to the Performance Driven Athlete Podcast, where you can join us as we talk about subjects that wil help you unlock your personal human and athletic potential. Our aim is to educate you the listener on everything from living healhty to landing personal bests in the sport of your choice and everything in between. We discuss how to reduce stress, to improving movement quality, to setting PR's to what it takes to look better naked. We have years and years of health and fitness knowledge ...
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2 years ago
46 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Preparing for the 2022 Crossfit Open
On today's episode Ben and Matt discuss the upcoming 2022 Crossfit Open, including their least and most favorite workouts. Enjoy the episode!
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3 years ago
1 hour

Performance Driven Athlete
The Hierarchy of Development
This week Ben and Matt discuss the Hierarchy of Development, particularly sports, and how important it is to fitness. Enjoy the episode!
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3 years ago
51 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Fitness Ebbs and Flows
This week Ben and Matt discuss the Ebbs and Flows of fitness, how to stay consistent, and whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Enjoy the episode!
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3 years ago
42 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals
This week Ben and Matt discuss the importance of setting fitness goals and finding motivation for success. If you enjoyed the episode please drop a rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts! Thanks, and enjoy the episode!
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3 years ago
51 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
A Coach's Journey
This week Ben and Matt discuss their journeys as coaches. They reflect on some of their influences that go into their coaching methods, and how to become a better coach. Enjoy the Episode
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3 years ago
55 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
What's your fitness preparing you for?
Ben and Matt discuss the importance of the GPP workout. They talk about improving your athletic ability and increasing your overall strength. Enjoy the episode!
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3 years ago
46 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Simple Gymnastics Fixes
On today's episode, Ben and Matt talk gymnastics in its most simple form, which is "moving your body". They discuss gymnastics as it relates to Crossfit, and give you some ideas to help you in your training. Enjoy the episode!
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4 years ago
1 hour

Performance Driven Athlete
6 Months for the Ride of Your Life
The PDA boys interview Greg Taylor about his upcoming adventure where he will bike 11,500 miles which takes him all the way across this great United States of America. Check out all of his links with all the social media for USA Cancer Cycle and be ready for when his journey starts on February 20, 2021.
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4 years ago
1 hour 16 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Are you breathing correctly?
Talking about breathing seems counter intuitive, but the reality of it is, there is probably so many of us out there that breath incorrectly. With proper breathing strategies we can improve our fitness, strength and performance and through breathwork we can improve the other end of the spectrum of recovery and speeding up the injury healing process.
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5 years ago
1 hour 1 minute

Performance Driven Athlete
Hypertrophy! Have you been taking the right approach all along?
The guys talk about in greater detail some of the latest research on what it takes to build muscle and how we are all a little bit different and the old school standard approach of 3 sets per exercise at 8-12 reps might not always be the best approach for stimulating our muscles.
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5 years ago
55 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Simple tricks to improve your fitness.....
Just because they are simple, doesn't mean they are easy. The guys from PDA this week talk about small details that you can practice on your own that will help you improve your fitness. They hit a few details when it comes to some weightlifitng movements, focus on the highlights of gymnastics movements for the sport of fitness, and how to learn more about the concept 2 monitor and how that can help your performance.
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5 years ago
1 hour 7 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Choosing a Coach
If you are looking for a coach or an online training platform to follow. What are some things that you should look for and prioritize in your coach or program. The guys breakdown what they feel are priorities in choosing what or who is a right fit for you.
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5 years ago
1 hour 7 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Getting back into trainng after some time off
Chris and Ben talk about some good strategies when returning to training after injuries or this thing that everyone keeps talking about. The biggest take away is to be patient and do not rush back into high volume high intensity training.
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5 years ago
50 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Answering questions about that Lockdown Quarantine Life
Tyler is back to join the boys to answer all sorts of questions regarding how to maxmize and optimize your health and fitness during our current life situation. Questions range from immune system, what are you doing with your extra time, calorie intake for different stages of life, eating while pregnant, bcaa's, and even thoughts on the Tiger King.
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5 years ago
1 hour 8 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
How Do You Read The Whiteboard?
When we see what our workout of the day is, a series of thoughts will go thorugh our mind, ranging from; my tweak or injury won't allow this, I'm pretty sure I'm unable to complete the task at hand, I can't do that Rx weight or movement, or that looks dumb or boring or I really just don't like any of those movements. These are all natural reactions and we won't to take this approach of how you can still get the best out of your workout if any of these thoughts manifest them self in your mind....
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5 years ago
39 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Fitness Hacks When Traveling Across The Map
Episode 17 (or 18?????) Chris & Ben discuss all of the various options for getting your fitness on while you are traveling. Whether you are traveling for work or pleasure and you feel you must get a workout in, but don't want to find the local gym, box or don't feel like going out for a run, The PDA coaches have a plan of attack for you. There are quick and easy tips you can do without equipment or even some small pieces of equipment that can easily fit in a suitcase or travel bag. ...
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5 years ago
37 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Keeping That Fire Burning
Burnout can set training back for an undetermined time period. It can be caused by a multitude of reason, but with a little self awareness and understanding of your body and the stress that plays a role in life and in training, you can fight off burnout. But it won't be easy. We outline some of the action oriented steps in order to get back to training, or making sure you don't suffer from burnout during your current training regimen.
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5 years ago
58 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Finding Your Nutritional Path w/Tyler Minton
There are a ton of different nutritional philosophies out there, as well as fad diets, and other plans and strategies. Each of them have their own pros and cons, followed up with a lot of misleading information. Each one of these strategies should match with your lifestyle and match with your training, as well as have some sustainablity. Tyler helps filter through much of the misinformation with a lot of the top nutrtion trends. There is no one size fits all in fitness or nutrition, leading u...
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5 years ago
1 hour 30 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Coach, Do I really need to warm up?
Chris & Ben discuss all the reasons why you should prioritize your warm up. And how to approach a warm up if you are short on time or have some extra time. They lay out a guideline for what should be included in your warm up and how to best maximize the time based on what you need and how to make the warm up task specific.
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5 years ago
49 minutes

Performance Driven Athlete
Welcome to the Performance Driven Athlete Podcast, where you can join us as we talk about subjects that wil help you unlock your personal human and athletic potential. Our aim is to educate you the listener on everything from living healhty to landing personal bests in the sport of your choice and everything in between. We discuss how to reduce stress, to improving movement quality, to setting PR's to what it takes to look better naked. We have years and years of health and fitness knowledge ...