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Phil Ross broke three bones in his back playing high school football, and doctors told him he'd never compete again. That summer he took 2nd in Greco at Eastern Nationals, then spent the next 50 years building the strength and back-care system surgeons started sending their own patients to. 🔗 Recruitable: Your step-by-step playbook for today's recruiting process, from first contact to signing day: https://www.athletorlive.com/product/recruitable Free resources: 📊 Find out your recruiting tier: https://recruitable.athletorlive.com/quiz 🏟️ Find a college to wrestle at: https://recruitable.athletorlive.com/database ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 - A lot of hats: wrestling, kettlebells, martial arts, mindset 11:21 - Three broken bones in his back at 16 14:35 - From one-on-one clients to surgeons sending him patients 18:07 - Try the least invasive fix first, and the 90 Days of Suck 22:24 - Seeking out the best: Inosanto, Pavel, Gray Cook 30:07 - Not scouting his opponent, and 2001 35:46 - Becoming a mindset coach, and Too Stupid to Quit 42:24 - Rapid fire: best shoe, Exercise Snacks, Mount Rushmore, magic wand 📋 ABOUT THIS EPISODE Coach Phil Ross has spent more than 50 years in combat sports and strength training. He's a 9th-degree black belt, a master kettlebell instructor who was on Pavel Tsatsouline's instructor team, a college professor with a master's in sports and health sciences, and the author of Managing Back Pain For Dummies and Exercise Snacks. He's also back in the wrestling room as a head strength and conditioning coach who helps coach the wrestling too, and he works with wrestlers as a mindset coach. He tells Mike how a broken back at 16 turned his basement gym into a lab, why a neurosurgeon and a fighter end up with the same neck, and why you should try the least invasive fix before anyone cuts. Then the mindset side: refusing to scout his opponent at the Garden State Games and winning anyway, the year he went through a divorce and nearly died in the World Trade Center, the four months he slept on the floor of his karate studio, and the SEAL Team 6 selection story that sums up what he thinks a wrestler is. Plus his Mount Rushmore (Bruce Baumgartner, Jordan Burroughs, Cael Sanderson, Dan Gable) and why he'd bring the push-out rule to folkstyle. Find Phil: philross.com and the Master Phil Kettlebells app (iOS and Android). 🎙️ ABOUT ATHLETOR PODCAST The Athletor Podcast brings you conversations with the coaches, athletes, and minds shaping wrestling. Subscribe for new episodes weekly. 🔗 CONNECT YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXjsj-4x50ZVLOvSjaUEM9A Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/athletor.live/ X: https://x.com/athletor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/athletor.live/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@athletor

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Kettlebells, Back Pain, And Mindset For Wrestlers | Coach Phil Ross

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