Heroic Humility with Dan Growden | FlowCast #46
Show Notes
Dan Growden is our guest on this week's FlowCast. Dan is an incredible athlete who's endurance is only outmatched by his humility. It takes a lot to get Dan to talk himself up despite reaching the level of training camp in the NHL and competing at an Olympic qualifier for speed skating.
In this conversation, we discuss the unique sport of speed skating, flow on ice, and Dan's new mission as a family man.
February 15 marks International Angelman Day. Please listen to the last 10 minutes of this podcast to learn more about Angelman Syndrome and visit cureangelman.ca
1:00 - Our current meditation practices
3:45- What is TM?
7:30 - Welcome to the show Dan Growden
8:45 - Where ice sports started for Dan
10:15 - Unlimited energy plus cardio genes
11:00 - Functioning on little sleep
11:40 - Dan's hockey career
13:00 - Switching to speed skating
15:00 - Training for speed skating
20:00 - What life's like for Olympic athletes
20:45 - Losing the internal drive due to bureaucracy
22:00 - Dan's retirement from speed skating
23:15 - Time spent in flow
24:00 - The risk of speed skating
25:30 - The interesting science of speed skating blades
27:30 - There's no balance in top-level sports
28:30 - Skating flow*
29:15 - Easy speed *
30:00 - Time spent in flow across sports
32:00 - What does Dan do now to reclaim flow?
35:15 - Where did Dan's positivity come from?
37:15 - Controlling your energy
38:15 - Making competitions with yourself for fun*
39:45 - Where does the competitive drive come from?
44:00 - A new life mission - Angelman syndrome
52:00 - Why Dan isn't allowed to drink orange juice
Resources
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FAST - Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics cureangelman.ca
International Angelman Day - February 15
Quiet - Susan Cain
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Show Notes:
2:45 - Telsi’s 2 favourite steps to recovery
3:40 - What recovery methods do researchers recommend?
5:30 - How much sleep do NBA players get? (Including Lebron’s typical daily sleep time)
6:00 - Professional athletes sleep before important games and competitions
8:30 - Nutrition the day of versus the day before a game or competition
11:45 - Book recommendation - Good To Go
21:20 - Is Animal Flow good for recovery?
26:00 - Recovery of the mind
30:20 - Sleep before competitions revisited
34:20 - Counter-intuitive effects of recovery for sports like powerlifting
35:10 - Busy Mind = Busy Body
37:40 - Nature for de-stressing.
Books mentioned in this episode:
FlowCast #3 | What is Flow? Book Summary of “Flow”
What is the flow state and how do you achieve it? This episode covers the research and details behind the flow state as is outlined in the book Flow by the scientist who pioneered the research and term flow itself.