From Lions Coach To Life Coach: Craig White

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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The Godfather of Strength and Conditioning. Fresh from the misty mountains of Peru, Al and Hask are joined by Hask's former Conditioning Coach at Wasps, Craig White; a man whose influence has shaped the face of High-Performance Coaching in rugby. With troublesome tales of managing Trevor Leota at Wasps alongside Shaun Edwards, Craig shares the biggest lessons he learned working with Clive Woodward and Warren Gatland on the 2005 and 2009 Lions Tours. For Craig, everything changed when he took a breather from the hyper-masculine world of rugby just months before the 2011 World Cup to go on a yoga retreat that opened his eyes to mindfulness, nature and a more spiritual style of coaching… Season 5 is sponsored by Continental Tyres. 🛞 00:00 - Strap in with Continental Tyres 🐝 01:00 - A Wasps Reunion 💪09:38 - Prescribing Brotherhood ⚽🏉 16:07 - Football V Rugby, Allardyce V Gatland 🤯 20:26 - How Do You Manage Trevor Leota? 🦁 25:02 - 2005 + 2009 Lions Tour Double 🐯 34:54 - Crouching Tigers Hidden Craig 🧘‍♂️ 38:24 - The Life-Changing Yoga Retreat 💥 45:19 - Hitting Rock Bottom & Learning How To Feel 🌿 52:03 - Get Children Off Screens & In Nature 🌍 55:46 - Tier 2 Champion: Uruguay and Chile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week, Hask and I are joined by a man who changed the face of conditioning and masculinity in rugby.
0:06.0	Welcome to the pod, my friend, my guru, Craig White.
0:09.0	I probably will watch the Lions, but I don't have a TV.
0:11.4	Okay.
0:12.0	For me, Alliance Tour is a merging of elite professional systems and processes with that ancient brotherhood, play hard, train hard.
0:20.2	You came into this wasps environment?
0:21.8	The gym was like a rave, wasn't it?
0:23.1	The gym was like a rave?
0:24.4	My time in South America over the last 10 years has softened me,
0:27.8	learned me how to dance a bit better.
0:29.5	I wasn't feeling my stuff.
0:31.2	I was projecting it onto the world of rugby.
0:32.8	And I used to go home and cry at night,
0:34.2	and I got gats and in inkling 10 months before the World Cup I left and I went on
0:37.9	the show of a retreat and it's quite possibly the most significant month of my entire life.
0:42.2	Into the final moments Alex Payne trying to keep this side going forward. Haskell takes it on now
0:46.9	with just relentless chat largely about himself and there's Tyndall to add the finishing touch of glamour
0:52.4	and World Cup winning stories. That is how you
0:55.5	podcast. Hello, Dream Team. Welcome along to this week's episode of the good, the bad and
1:03.5	the rugby proudly sponsored as always by our very good friends at Continental Tires, the
1:06.8	official tire partner of England Rugby, whether on the field or the road, you can trust
1:10.3	continental tires for exceptional safety, performance and grip.
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