Logan Corbett spent twenty years in rodeo believing what most riders still
believe: lifting makes you bulky and slow. He competed at 155 pounds, lean,
weak and fragile. Today, at 195, he puts out more on a ten-second sprint
than he ever did riding, and he and the team at Champion Living Fitness
coach a couple hundred rodeo athletes, junior high through college.

He got on his first bull at fourteen with a borrowed bull rope. His rodeo
coach at Murray State changed his life, and Logan gave his own to coaching.

In this one: why some of the best bull riders in the world were done by
26, the "eight seconds at a time" line he's most ashamed of, how he
assesses a brand-new athlete before writing a single rep, why rodeo kids
need to play other sports, and why he never wants his own kids to feel
they have to prove anything to him.

Athlete Builder · Ep 162

IN THIS EPISODE
0:00 Who is Logan Corbett?
5:25 First bull at 14: no confidence, no equipment
12:53 Franklin Rodeo, the rookie year and life on the road
16:20 "Blind leading the blind": how rodeo athletes train
17:50 Why he coaches: the coach who changed his life
20:30 Mindset: max effort, no self-preservation
25:26 Why are bull riders so small?
27:34 The "bulky and slow" myth
38:11 Strength, bone density and durability
40:06 155 vs. 195 lb: more power on a 10-second sprint
42:42 How he assesses a brand-new athlete
48:40 What he would tell 16-year-old Logan
49:35 Who is on your team?
52:05 From "on the take" to "on the give"
59:30 Will his kids rodeo? Other sports first
1:03:01 Rapid fire

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GYM OWNERS
Training is one block of six. You've already mastered that one.
Find Jim Beebe on LinkedIn, tell him the sport you coach, and
he'll walk you through what the other five look like built
around it.

Logan Corbett — Strength & Conditioning Coach, Champion Living Fitness
Instagram: @logan.championliving

Athlete Builder with Jim Beebe
Win the day. Stay relentless.

Thomas Roe was coaching at an Orangetheory in Colorado when a mom with
two high school athletes walked in. Two years later, they're the
co-founders of Blueprint to Bluechip.

Erin Sarles spent fifteen years running multi-unit operations for
Starbucks, Athleta and Orangetheory, and built the CADI framework:
character over clout, accountability over excuses, discipline over
motivation, integrity over image. Thomas had his college career cut short
by two neck surgeries, then spent years racing a ghost: marathons,
Ironman, and Route 66 by bike, a hundred miles a day for twenty-five
days, raising money for mental health awareness in his sister's name.

In this one: the question Erin asked that Thomas answered "that's not my
problem," why the best thing a parent can do at a game is clap, what
Thomas tells the kid padding his stats on a losing team, the first
question he asks every parent (is this your dream, or your kid's?), what
gyms and programs get wrong about keeping people, and what breaks between
the score and the behavior.

IN THIS EPISODE
0:00 Who are Thomas Roe and Erin Sarles?
6:16 "That's not my problem." "Maybe it should be."
8:55 How they met at an Orangetheory in Colorado
9:52 Erin's parent self-audit: learn to just clap
12:55 Route 66 by bike and racing a ghost
17:39 Opening a flagship: no store opening ever goes right
20:39 Fear of failure and the imposter syndrome
23:03 When the playing stops: your dream or your kid's?
25:53 The sibling who isn't the athlete
29:41 "You just lost": the kid padding his stats
31:52 What gyms get wrong about keeping people
35:35 Selling to athletic departments: the check-engine light
39:09 Faith, divorce and no shortcuts
42:28 What breaks between the score and the behavior
48:04 Rapid fire

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FREE ATHLETE ASSESSMENT
All six blocks — mindset, knowledge, teammates, training,
nutrition, recovery. Knowledge counts double. See the gaps.
Track the trend.
→ athlete-builder.com/assessmenttest

THE TWO MINUTE DRILL
One short read every Thursday, pulled from 150+ episodes and
what we're learning building champions.
→ athlete-builder.com/newsletter

GYM OWNERS
Training is one block of six. You've already mastered that one.
Find Jim Beebe on LinkedIn, tell him the sport you coach, and
he'll walk you through what the other five look like built
around it.
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Thomas Roe & Erin Sarles — Co-founders, Blueprint to Bluechip
blueprintbluechip.com
Instagram: @troefitness · @erinsarles · @blueprint.to.bluechip

Athlete Builder with Jim Beebe
Win the day. Stay relentless.

Nate Harvey spent ten years as a Division I strength coach at the University at Buffalo, wrote Conjugate U, and squatted over a thousand pounds. On October 9th he opened his own gym, 716 Elite Prep in Hamburg, New York: a converted car garage where he and his son built the subfloor themselves. We get into how he found the conjugate method by watching Mike Alstott, the text that said "Dave's going to call you in an hour," why 99% of what your kid needs looks too simple, what he tells parents who ask for sport-specific training, and what he did when his monthly costs came in a thousand dollars over budget.

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The Two Minute Drill → athlete-builder.com/newsletter

716 Elite Prep: @716eliteprep

0:00 Intro
0:00 Mike Alstott and the conjugate method
1:58 Finding conjugate
6:10 "Dave's going to call you in an hour"
8:25 D1 culture shock
11:10 The 1,000-lb squat
14:20 The seed one coach planted
18:28 Identity after sport
23:05 The broken hand
27:24 The look on a kid's face
29:28 Conjugate U and the ones pushed aside
35:02 Too many variables
37:31 Sport-specific training for kids
39:13 Delayed gratification in a DoorDash world
42:07 Trust and buy-in
43:58 The system or the athletes?
49:32 Beyond the weight room
51:52 $1,000 over budget
53:55 The subfloor
56:06 The wow factor
60:42 "I'm not a good salesman"
64:15 What he wants people to say
66:12 Rapid fire

Win the Day. Stay Relentless.