Zain Retherford on the Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast | Ep 272
Published 2021-09-23
-Zain’s early years
-Doing 1k push-ups in a single night
-Cael Sanderson and being recruited by Penn State
-The 2012 Cadet World Championships
-Wrestling Jason Nolf
-The 2016 Olympic Trials
-2019 Final X vs Yianni
-Zain’s tactic for reducing performance anxiety
-Zain’s favorite book
Please enjoy!
(Picture: Tony Rotundo)
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Presented by Spartan Combat, the Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast features long-form interviews with amateur wrestlers - past and current - MMA fighters and titans of industry. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday, where host Ryan Warner talks college wrestling, Olympic wrestling and more with some of the biggest names in the sport. Wrestling Changed My Life also produces original audio documentaries including Slaying Saitiev, The Smiths and Gable the GOAT.
All Comments (21)
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Zain ... and his family ... is a class act ... always have been ...
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Zain is one of my all time favorite wrestlers
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I stopped watching to go rewatch the Cadet World Championships match and The Steiber match. Great interview!
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Great interview. I appreciate your prep. Solid questions. Thanks for having Zain on. Always curious about such a champion.
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Man, I really like that "don't zoom in on it" and "pluck it out like a weed"
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This podcast series is a treasure trove
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10:37 I remember seeing that Nikki Roberts match live on FLO! i was a freshman too just like zain and he inspired me alot to try and reach the next level in wreslting, seeing an unkown freshman upset the #1 kid in the country at his state tournament. Rest in peace to the legend Nikki Roberts! salute to zain (ps. im a hawkeye fan)
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Great podcast! I too went back and watched the steiber match. Sent to my son to watch! Keep doing great things!!!
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Excellent interview.
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awesome pod man!
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Great interview. Back in the day when we watched tv in the evening as a family I would drop down and do as many push ups as possible during commercials. It definitely made a difference both in my strength and stamina. I picked college football and baseball over wrestling. To this day I regret that decision. I should have accepted the wrestling scholarships. I coach now and thoroughly enjoy it.
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The Zain Train 💪🇺🇸💪
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👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 awesome
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Thats a future Olympic Gold Medalist peoples
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Good kid.
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i did 1000 push ups and 1000 dips and pull ups
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Hughes brothers were asics all americans!!!!
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Great wrestler but is 1000 pushups a day a bit excessive?
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A complete hammer he beat the crap out of people
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Most overrated wrestler in the history of the NCAA. He had zero competition in his weight classes at the end of his career. When he did have competition he finished fish. Bum.
