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The Kids Table is where the real talk happens. Uncensored, unfiltered, and unexpectedly hilarious. Celebrity trainers and long time friends Gunnar Peterson and Jen Widerstrom pull up chairs to spill insider secrets from the top of the fitness industry.
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Dose Khango: If You Build It, They Will Come | The Kids Table Podcast Ep. 37 (opens the original)
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This week, Gunnar and Jen catch up with Dose Khan, the Houston-based trainer and owner of Khango Gym who first got connected to us by cold-DMing Gunnar a decade ago and ended up crashing on his guest house couch after one too many tequilas. Dose walks us through the wild road from getting locked out of his first training space on Christmas Eve, to building a name for himself training pro athletes out of a five-star Houston hotel. The conversation gets real fast: the $20K supplement deal that fel
Shane Wallen: Read the Mood Ring, Not Just the Data | The Kids Table Podcast Ep. 36 (opens the original)
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This week, Gunnar and Jen sit down with Shane Wallen, who spent a decade as a strength and performance coach in Major League Baseball before walking away this past off-season to open a Nashville location of the iconic social performance club, The Kollective. Shane gets candid about the real math behind pro sports coaching pay across the NFL, NBA, and MLB, the lack of a pension for strength staff after years in the league, and how losing his father last November made him rethink what he was actua
Shawn Melland & Bo Sandoval: The Tribe You Didn't Know You Needed | The Kids Table Podcast Ep. 35 (opens the original)
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This week, Gunnar Peterson and Jen Widerstrom welcome Shawn Melland and Bo Sandoval for another special SORINEX Summer Strong conversation that starts with coaching and quickly turns into something much more meaningful. Fresh off an impromptu presentation at Summer Strong, Bo shares what it feels like to step into the spotlight with only hours to prepare and why great coaches should always stay "within striking distance" of their craft. From communicating under pressure to finding flow, the grou
Jon Heck & Gabe Watson: Staying the Authority in the Room | The Kids Table Podcast Ep. 34 (opens the original)
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We’re back this week, live from Sorinex (https://www.sorinex.com/), and pull up our chairs with Jon Heck and Gabe Watson for a conversation that starts with rivalries and ends up somewhere much more useful. Jon walks through his shift from NFL and college strength coaching to his Hammer and Chisel Performance Podcast(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hammer-and-chisel-performance-podcast/id1835141652) and running his own business full-time built on every coach's favorite training app, TrainH
John Welbourn: The World’s Most Violent Nerd | The Kids Table Podcast Ep. 33 (opens the original)
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Another year, another (https://www.sorinex.com/). Former NFL offensive lineman John Welbourn joins The Kids Table at this year’s SS19 conference for a conversation that goes far beyond football. Alongside Kids Table veteran Ed Streit, John reflects on what happens after the game ends and why the best competitors never stop finding new mountains to climb. The conversation traces John's path from a decade in the NFL to helping build CrossFit's athletic training methodology, launching Power Athlete
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