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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jacob Ross | Olympic Basketball

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

It’s been way, way too long since we connected here with our good buddy, Jacob Ross. He’s headed to Paris with the South Sudan Olympic Basketball team for the 2024 Olympics. We chat about how that all came together, his work with the NGO Matter, what it’s like opening a gym with Tom Kallas, and why he’s training like a bodybuilder now.

You can (and should) find Jacob on IG (@jacob.w.ross) and @bebetterbarbellclub

Sebastian Brambila (@sebastian_brambila) also ran the board and joined in.

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Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) https://www.instagram.com/silentmikke/ and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). https://www.instagram.com/thejimmcd/ Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Sam McDonald and Sebastian Brambila. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo (@jmanzo523).

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0:00.0

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See in store for T's and C's. We don't tell a lot of folks only when we feel it's important or someone we want to catch up with and

0:44.3

this is definitely one of them. The man's worked with numerous pro athletes,

0:50.7

Olympians, individuals.

0:53.9

I don't know if you've been with an Olympic team yet.

0:56.0

That's the main thing I want to dig into

0:57.5

because I'm just personally interested.

0:59.2

Olympic individuals is obviously a great achievement in its own but Olympic teams is just a little

1:06.3

bit different vibes. Father, husband, a really good friend of ours, someone I met

1:11.9

through Barbara Brigade technically I guess we kind of

1:15.1

met on our own but in Barbara Brigade I remember the day like it was a romcom I'm in the I'm in the lobby of Barbara Brigade and the team at the time I was pretty close

1:29.1

with it had been there a long time some great folks but a lot of people aren't really, I don't know if athletes are the right time,

1:37.8

they weren't really into sports.

1:39.8

So I don't know if it was Bard or Nadeem or someone came to me and said Mike I think

1:44.2

there's an NBA guy and his trainer coming in I said NBA what you got? I do

1:49.0

Lou while dangs coming in and I was a big Bulls fan grew up the 90s, so it's hard not to be a Jordan fan.

1:55.0

And then you just kind of keep that with you a little bit.

1:57.0

So I was a huge fan of the Derek Rose-Louel, Joachim Noah era.

2:01.0

I said, dude, that's fucking sick. And they're like, yeah, I think like the trainer like knows all of us somehow or something. Like he's just tapped in. I was like, oh, sick. They're like, just kick it. So I think I kicked it at the gym for like three hours. We did that anyways. We had nothing to do it, you know, we're all like just

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