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“Right from the start mum has always felt that cooking good food for us is something she could do to make a big difference… and it has.”
My guests on the show today are Sam (@sammysawce) and Ben (@benodeaa) O’Dea, New Zealand’s top beach volleyball team, and fresh off a bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast. The boys also grabbed a third place at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour event in Shepparton, Australia, in 2017.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Intermittent fasting and the benefits for elite athletes travelling the world
- Why the boys love to cook
- The job of the sporting mum
- Sibling rivalry and growing up in the country
- Life without a dad
- What the boys see as each other’s strengths
- The roots of their beach volleyball journey
- Self-awareness and how it leads to better learning
- Growing quickly
- The importance of training culture
- Physical preparation
- Overcoming adversity
- Sam and Ben’s future goals and what it’s going to take to get there
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