23: From Olympian to Elite Wheelchair Athlete, Amy Van Dyken Rouen Shares Her Story
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week, Morgan chats with former Olympian Amy Van Dyken Rouen, the history-making athlete who was the first American to win 4 gold medals in a single Olympic games. After a devastating accident, Rouen was paralyzed from the waist down. Determined to maintain her athleticism, Rouen eventually earned the title of the fittest sitting woman in the world. In this conversation, Morgan and Rouen chat about Olympic competition, overcoming tremendous adversity, mental health, paleo & keto eating, CrossFit & more!
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| 0:00.0 | We need to stop talking about shoulda coulda woulda because shoulda coulda would have never |
| 0:04.0 | happened. |
| 0:04.6 | This happened. |
| 0:05.3 | I want to move forward. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Morgan, co-founder of Primal Kitchen and hosts of the Primal Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | Today, I'm honored to be chatting with former Olympian Amy Van Dyken Ruin, who fun fact is also |
| 0:19.5 | my sister-in-law's sister. |
| 0:22.0 | So we're pretty much related. |
| 0:27.4 | Amy made history as a six-time Olympic gold medal champion swimmer and became the first American athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games. |
| 0:31.1 | After a devastating ATV accident in 2014, she became paralyzed from the waist down and thought |
| 0:36.2 | her athletic career was over. |
| 0:37.8 | Overcoming all odds and defying her doctor's expectations, Amy found a new athletic outlet, |
| 0:42.5 | adaptive crossfit, and soon became the fittest sitting woman in the world. |
| 0:46.2 | She's always been on the cutting edge of diet performance and pain management, and I'm super excited for you guys to meet Amy today. |
| 0:52.0 | Before we hear Amy's story, a brief reminder that any and all |
| 0:54.5 | opinions and views shared by hosts and guests of this podcast are the speaker's own and do not |
| 0:58.2 | represent the view of Primal Kitchen or its affiliates or parent company. Hi, Amy. Morgan, it's so |
| 1:04.1 | good to see you. No kidding. It's so good to see you. I mean, last time we saw each other was like |
| 1:08.9 | in Los Angeles forever ago, |
| 1:11.0 | I feel like. It's crazy. I want to say like four or five years ago. Yeah. That's crazy. |
| 1:16.1 | Yeah. Because Riker was just baby baby. Yeah. And I've been keeping up, you know, with you through Katie. |
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