Pain-Free Athlete's Podcast
Are you tired of feeling pain? Are you recovering from a surgery? Do you want to learn how to stay active and pain-free? I'll share tips and strategies that can help you stay safe and pain-free while you're working out. I'll also interview experts in the field of fitness, rehabilitation and pain management.
Pain-Free Athlete's Podcast
Celebrating Summer Sports
Get ready to feel the pulse of summer sports excitement! Join me, Dana Jones, as I immerse you in the vibrant atmosphere of the Summer Olympics, sharing my passion for sports like softball, track and field, and swimming. You'll discover not only my personal love for baseball, cycling, and women's basketball but also the captivating allure of major summer events like the Tour de France and the baseball all-star break. Listen as I highlight standout athletes such as Sha'Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles, Caleb Dressel, and Katie Ledecky, capturing the electrifying moments that make this season unforgettable.
Feel the joy and passion that athletes bring to their sports. Through it all, we honor the relentless dedication and joy that athletes bring to their sports, inviting you to share in their triumphs and heartbreaks. Tune in and be inspired by the incredible stories of hard work and success this summer!
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Welcome to the Pain-Free Athlete Podcast. I'm your host, dana Jones. I am a certified personal trainer and I'm here to help you achieve your fitness goals without pain. In each episode, I'll share tips and strategies that will help you stay safe and pain-free while you're working out. I'll also interview experts in the field of fitness and pain management. So if you're ready to learn how to stay active and pain-free, then subscribe to the Pain-Free Athlete Podcast today. Hi everyone and welcome to the Pain-Free Athlete Podcast. I'm your host, dana Jones. So this is a very exciting week because we have the Olympics Yay.
Speaker 1:I am a summer person. I love summer. I always look forward to it, just because of the heat and the light. There's more light outside, so it always like kind of warms my heart to wake up and the sun is shining, and then you know be able to do all things and the sun is still shining later in the evening. And plus, there's so many things like.
Speaker 1:I love baseball. It's one of my favorite sports and it's something that you know is on all the time and it's very exciting, like leading into it. And then, of course, there's July, and July is when Tour de France starts, and I pay attention to cycling, but not as intensely as I do watching the Tour de France. Um, it is just a insane feat, uh, for all these people that participate, both the men and the women. I unfortunately watch mostly the men because I feel like it's like some kind of athlete soap opera that I have to keep up with. And you know what did so-and-so say? Who cut off so-and-so on the sprint? Oh, did you see you know this one get wrecked? Or, wow, I can't believe he had that much energy to finish. You know the hill and all kinds of good things.
Speaker 1:July also brings the all-star break for baseball, which is always a sad time because then that means baseball's not on for I don't know three or four days. So it kind of feels like the end of the world, which is kind of very dramatic. But I, I kind of. I just, you know like I like watching the all-star game. Sometimes, you know I'm a national league fan and God help us, we'll never win. Um, it's always. If something happened, it's because the American league fell down or left early or something like that. Like I don't know why the national league can't win, but, um, it's just, I don't know, a struggle for them.
Speaker 1:And we also have women's basketball this year, the all-star break during this time, and then, of course, then the Olympics start and you know women's basketball has turned into drama. I mean there's so much drama about how people are treating the rookies and the Caitlin Clark effect. And you know, I was looking at statistics the other night and it's stupid, like I don't know what it is about her that people glom onto. But I mean you know she backs it up. So you know you can't say like you know people are just choosing to be with her, it's kind of, or follow her, it's. You know she's an outstanding athlete but man, she drives people to watch and I don't think anybody else has driven people to watch sports. You know, probably in the last couple of years, the way she has and it's, it's kind of cool and and you know she's clean, like you know you watch her hit and it's it's no big deal. It's kind of like watching, you know, a female staff or maybe she's just Caitlin Clark and doesn't have to be a female anything. But you know, the Olympics is especially the Summer Olympics. That's my, that's my jam. I love the Summer Olympics and I I mean things are going to be a little jacked up because I'm in California, so I'm nine hours behind live time, but I'm hoping that you know, peacock and all the other whatever subscriptions will have things going on, cause usually they do. Um, my favorites are, you know, obviously softball, because that was my sport in college. And, um, um, it'll be cool because one of the FSU alumni, jesse Warren, will be playing and she's freaking awesome and Maya Brady will be joining and that's Tom Brady's niece and she's from UCLA, so that will be super cool to watch her play.
Speaker 1:I love track and field. It's almost like horse racing for humans. Racing for humans. There's something that sounds weird. All of this is horse racing for humans, right, I mean, except for, like you know probably anything that you're not racing, right? So you know, like gymnastics, that kind of stuff, but you know definitely swimming and track and field. Track and field are definitely like horse racing, but there's something about track and field where I don't, you know. I imagine that if you're there and you're feeling the frenzy of the finish and I feel that same way with horse racing it's like you know, when the horses come around and you can hear people getting excited and I get goosebumps, and you know. It's that same thing with track and field, and you know, sha'carri Richardson gets to come Yay, you know she's over her dope smoking ways, I guess, or whatever and so we get her back. We get to see Noah Lyles, because I believe he was hurt, and so this is the first time that he's actually been healthy and looks pretty good.
Speaker 1:Um, obviously, swimming is amazing too, and so Caleb Dressel made it, yay, right. And Katie Ledecky will be back for her 900th Olympics. Um, it seems like every year, you know, she's been there and it's kind of awesome because she's just, she does the long distances and it's very rare to find somebody who has, um, the stamina that she has. I mean, she's pretty frigging awesome. And a little shout out to total immersion swimming, cause, uh, she's pretty much in that style of swimming because of the distances. Uh, we have gymnastics and Simone Biles is back.
Speaker 1:We uh remember last time everybody was, they were kind of mad at her, and then they weren't. Um, they were trying to work it out, right, because she was talking about her mental health and how much strain and stress she was under, and you know what was it? She had the twisties right, which was I don't even understand how you don't get that right, which is essentially the spins from doing too many. You know flips and turns and twists and all the things that she had going on. You know flips and turns and twists and all the things that she had going on. But she also made that kind of call about the mental health piece and the stress and the strain that people are under, you know, while they're participating, and especially females. We definitely hold them to a different standard and it's unfair. And you know she gave a little shout out right, Like. You know, she's back, she's done her work, she has a much more healthier aspect of participating in sport and I think that's what allows her. You know, like she's the cream that rises to the top right, she's a goat and it's cool that she's overcome those challenges to be able to do this. Come those challenges to be able to do this.
Speaker 1:Then we have men's basketball Dream team 3.0, 4.0. I don't know, this is a pretty damn good team. They're stacked and it's awesome. The other day I was watching a video and Steph was screwing around and he was sitting in one of the chairs on the bench and he just underhanded. You know, granny bucketed a ball and totally hit it. You know, and the glee in which he, you know, celebrated something, you know, and he's known there and he makes it and you know he just loves to.
Speaker 1:I it's really hard to find somebody who loves their sport like a little kid. And sometimes that happens in baseball, right, like you see how excited they get when they win and they throw water on each other and they're all jumping up and down like little league dudes, you know, and he does that with basketball and, yes, there's some arrogance in there, but when he does like these little trick shots he's like a little kid and that's a beautiful thing to be like, so joyful about something that you love and have played for a really long time. And so that's kind of neat. Women's basketball has, you know, the hardcore ladies coming back, right, diana Tarazi and Stewie Brianna Stewart, and you know that's cool because they're just, they're solid players and I think that women's basketball at least USA women's basketball has probably the best players on the planet. So it's going to be really interesting to kind of watch that and see all those really talented people together.
Speaker 1:One of my favorites is Elliot Kapogi and he is, if you remember, he is from Kenya and he's a marathoner and he was the one that, during COVID, they had set up for or Nike should say, had set up that he was going to run a marathon in under two hours and he did it in like 159 something. Anyway, they, I mean it was so amazing, like the scientific, like if you just think, oh, like these marathons just got run and you look at it and you go, wow, like the amount of things that they did to prep right, they chose the perfect location based off of the temperature, because, um, marathoners can't have hot, right, heat kills them and, you know, will screw up all the, you know the, the sciency pieces that they need, right to make this record, uh, worth. I mean, it's technically not a record because of the fact that everything was so choreographed and not meaning like, oh, they helped him but he ran right. I mean, he still had to run 26 miles in an hour and 59 minutes, but they had like an echelon running with him, so they had, you know, five or six guys that made like a little arrow that you know, broke the wind, so it made it easier, so he wasn't, so I guess he didn't have that wind resistance, so then it was allowing him to rest. We see that in cycling a lot, right, somebody will ride and then you get what they call right, you get on their wheel and if you're in the perfect air pocket, they do all the work and they push the wind out of the way and then you're just cycling behind them and you're almost spinning. Um, and he had that in humans, which is wonderful, right? So these, you know, these dudes are out there and they and they swapped them out too, because it was because I was like, are they going to be able to hang with them? And then they had rotations, and I can't remember how much it was, it was, I think it was a half an hour at a time and they'd swap out and put new runners in, and it was kind of neat and he did it, and I think you know his best time, maybe two or two or two or three, which is not that far off, that number, which I love, right, that he's capable of doing that.
Speaker 1:And then we have taken a lot of heat over the last few years and I mean there's drama, there's like it's kind of funny because, you know, I don't always watch the news, because the news is very dramatic to me and I realized that, like sports have is like sports. All sports are like soap operas and if you're in it, you're in it, right? You know, like recently, clay Thompson was traded from the Warriors and you know it was a. Thompson was traded from the warriors and you know it was a big thing because he deleted all warrior stuff off his instagram and everybody was reporting about it. And then you know he left and it's like, oh, like. Some people were like, oh, I don't want to see the, you know the team broken up. And then other people are like, you know, good riddance, right. So there's always this drama and soccer, women's soccer, has been through the shit.
Speaker 1:They haven't won and they haven't won at the level I guess is what they had before. I think as Americans, we're totally spoiled with athletes really being very talented and winning a lot, and you know we're just really spoiled humans. So you know they have babies coming in now because it's time, right, the old guard is switching out and now we have, like, sophia Smith and all the other ones that are in there and they're, you know, even Rose Lavelle, who was a baby. Now she looks old, you know, compared to everybody else's on the team, and you know they'll have to find their own. And you know, compared to everybody else's on the team, and you know they'll have to find their own, and you know, be patient because it'll get there. But don't forget the rest of the world kind of caught up and stopped, kind of wanting to be spanked by American teams. The men have kind of run into that a lot sooner. So they've been struggling for years, but the women have been really really good for a long time and everybody else was like, oh, we should probably work hard too.
Speaker 1:And that kind of reminds me of like back in the day, you know, when we had Chris Everett and tennis and you know all that kind of stuff. It's like a lot of the players looked very feminine and you know the preparation for playing tennis was playing tennis. And then you had Martina Navratilova come over and she's like, oh, I want to be stronger and I want to be able to do this. So then she's cycling and running and lifting weights and doing all these things. And everybody's like, wait, whoa, what's happening? And you saw like the level of game just shot up. And now you have all these babies that are playing like Coco Guff and you know just are out there and they're all doing the things that Martino is doing. You know, you're seeing them. They're lifting weights, they're riding the bicycle, they're working on their endurance, they're making sure that they're, you know, also reducing the likelihood of injuries when you look back, you know, I remember there was quite a few times that, you know, chris Everett was having a hard time with her back because she had the, you know, the famous two-handed swing, and so there's, you know, there's a lot of stuff and you know, being diverse in your workout is a good thing, right, because it allows your body to be prepared for anything.
Speaker 1:And that's kind of what they got from Martina and you know, so you had this surge of athletes kind of working it out. And the same thing happened with golf, right, is that? You know, everybody was out there and before they're just like smoking and drinking and just hitting the ball and walking down, right, walking down, and now it's all, oh, wow, you have to go lift weights, right, and Tiger did that, right, he showed like, oh yeah, you need to. He probably got a little too jacked because of, you know, remember, certain body types work for certain sports and you can't be, you know, gargantuan and try to swing a golf club because you get in your own way. There's something about that long, lean kind of body that works a lot better right, longer levers, ball hits further except for John Daly he's like just an enigma, but anyway.
Speaker 1:So I'm super excited. There's a couple of new ones that you know well skateboarding will be back, which is kind of neat to see. And then there's breaking and I was like, yeah, like that's kind of cool. So I'm interested to see, like, how do you judge breaking? And we have was it Victor Montalvo's from the US that will be doing it? So you know it's cool.
Speaker 1:So this summer is a good summer.
Speaker 1:Well, any summer that has a lot of sports in it is a good summer and I just love all this stuff and as a fan, I love to see it and you know I love the conversations that I have with people based off of it, because we're just all so thrilled at what we're witnessing and you know that's the joy of sport is watching people work so hard to achieve something and be successful, and we share in their joy and I think that is a wonderful thing and I think that you know we should do that with all um, you know all our athletes because they do work hard.
Speaker 1:And some people, um, you know just, are really like it's just, I don't know it's very exciting, you know just, are really like it's just, I don't know it's very exciting. And you know, some people have just been born and they're like I'm going to be an Olympic athlete, and they work hard and then they make it come true and that is a beautiful thing. And so, anyway, as we spend these next couple of weeks watching the Olympics and seeing all the you know, the victories and the heartbreaks and whatever you know, just, take some appreciation in the fact that you know these people are working hard and they deserve our support. So, anyway, that's all I got for you this week. Thank you so much for listening. Don't forget to like and review and I will catch you next time.
