OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST LEGEND BOB BEAMON'S STORY BEHIND HIS RECORD JUMPS IN LIFE AND SPORTS

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Bob Beamon is a multi-talented Olympic champion that has followed the "beat" of his own inspiration to make the right jumps in sports and throughout his life. In order to succeed and leave a legacy on others, he had to make the decisive steps in sports to break the longest-standing world and Olympic records as well as in life to follow and achieve his many dreams. On this episode of the @Alloutcoach podcast where sportsmanship meets the scientific method, I sat down with Bob Beamon to learn how his sports career and multiple inspirations (basketball) influenced the decisions he has made in his personal life and success in continuing to reinvent himself as a champion in music. In this conversation leading to his keynote presentation at the 3rd annual Medical Affairs Innovation Olympics event (see follow up episode - stay tuned), Bob presents a very personal, detailed account of how his particular talent, challenging circumstances, approaches to training as well as facing adversity led to his success. In addition, he demonstrates the role his life inspiration and sports competitor's character played on reinventing himself throughout his career across his life transitions including the latest one in retirement as a musician. 0:00 Episode Highlight

1:04 Episode Intro

3:08 What inspired Bob to become a sports athlete

Growing up in South Jamaica, New York, rough childhood. Bob's involvement in the Police Athletic League thanks to which he started to compete in track and field.

6:04 Bob did not stop competing because he lost consistently

8:02 Transition from sprint to long jump

8:46 First long jump competition - 19 feet at 10 years of age

10:32 Bob's family background and early loss of his mother

12:38 Junior Olympics in New York - Turning Point at age 14

15:09 What makes the long jump special and difficult

Bob's background in the triple jump. He had jumped 25 feet 6 inches in high school. The event requires consistency in training, coaching, and inner drive.

20:48 Bob's coach Larry Ellis did not force Bob to change his peculiar form of jumping

Bob's technique - jump over a hurdle during training to maintain a height. He perfected an "unorthodox" form of jumping.

24:43 Reliving Bob's 1968 World Record Jump in Mexico City

26:38 Advantage of working out with best sprinters in the world

Bob's adjustments to the long jump the day before the final only qualifying on the last attempt.

30:12 Bob's Attitude & Mindset on the morning of his World Record

32:16 Specific Goal of Winning Olympic Gold vs. World Record

34:26 The emotions of breaking a world record

38:46 Nothing compares to the Intensity of the Olympics

41:02 How Bob reinvented himself as a musician at age 77

43:48 Welcoming the new challenge of becoming a drummer

Bob played with a Grammy-award winning band, opened the Track and Field competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics with a musical performance