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2022 USTFCCCA LIVE podcast: Layne Anderson-Boost Treadmills · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  Hey podcast listeners, we're super excited about December
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  11th at 5:30 Mountain Time Denver Time when we're going to
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  go live once again on YouTube to record a live Gil Connections
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  podcast. To celebrate, we're giving you
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  bonus clips every day until then of last year's 2022 guests that
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  came onto the live Gill Connections podcast.
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  Check it out. Look in the show notes below and
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  you'll see the URL. Check us out December 11th, 5:30
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  PM Denver time. We're just going to keep
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  rotating them through. All night we're scheduled 5:00
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  to 7:00 PM. But I'm not going to lie.
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  If if people are still waiting at 7:00 PM, I'm here all night.
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  What do I got to do? I got nothing else to do except
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  for actually, this gentleman actually invited me to do
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  something tonight, so I will have to cut it off at some point
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  tonight. So, hey, introduce yourself.
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  And welcome to the live version of the Guild Connections
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  podcast. Hey.
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  Thanks, Mike. Thanks for having us, Lane
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  Anderson, I'm with BOOST Treadmills.
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  We're in the micro gravity treadmill space.
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  I spent 27 years in Interstate athletics, Pacific Track and
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  Field at Auburn University, University of Iowa, Texas Tech
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  and University of Tennessee. So IN2018I transitioned out of
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  that into a new chapter in my life.
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  Professionally, personally with with my wife and kids and it's
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  it's been a great transition but beauty of my job is it keeps me
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  coming to the convention and to track meeting events like like
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  this with you. Yeah, you know, Lane, I came out
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  if we met when you were at Auburn.
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  I know for sure in the Iowa space.
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  For sure. But I was always impressed with
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  just your breadth of knowledge and everywhere that you have
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  been. You've always had success.
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  I mean, that's just kind of the cool thing about your coaching
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  and your coaching style. Talk to us.
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  You know, there's a lot of coaches that I don't know.
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  If you get this, I bet you do. As someone who used to coach
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  myself, I get a lot of, hey, what's it like on the other
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  side? Still involved in track and
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  field, but you're not coaching. How was your experience been?
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  It's it's been wonderful. I mean, you know, I I had an
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  opportunity probably two or three years before that when I
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  was at Iowa, before I moved to Tennessee and.
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  This wasn't a good time for me personally, professionally, but
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  but when Boost Treadmills called and I, probably the most
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  difficult conversation I ever had was with Beth at Tennessee
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  and just letting her know that I was going a different direction.
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  But she was incredible and supporting my decision and it's
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  great on the other side. Obviously I miss a lot about
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  track and field, the energy, the student athletes, the the
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  building of relationships with families, but this provides me a
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  lot more weekends at home. A lot more flexibility I I work
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  remotely so you know I I find a coffee shop in Knoxville and I
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  work when I'm not on the road and and my my time away is is
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  greatly reduced which which is. Been well received.
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  So tell me more about boost treadmill.
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  You know, as you could probably imagine, I'm not on the
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  treadmill very much, but I probably need a boost to get on
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  it. Tell me, what is boost
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  treadmills? What do?
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  You guys do. We, our our founders, started
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  Alter G many, many years ago and their goal was always to
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  innovate and to improve functionality to to improve
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  affordability. More importantly, I bought 2
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  Alter G's when I was at Iowa. They were eighty $90,000 a
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  piece. So we we've been able to improve
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  the technology but bring the price down.
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  So we've been in in business since 2018.
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  We've got over 400 machines out in in collegiate athletics, just
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  just this past outdoor championships.
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  In Eugene for instance, there were nine trophies awarded
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  because there was a tie on the women's side.
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  I think for 4th and Boost, customers earned eight of those
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  trophies at the recent NCAA Cross Country Championships,
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  seven of the top ten men's and women's teams.
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  Boost customers. So we've really come in and
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  taking the space, we've got a lot of folks who came from a
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  track and field background and again, we offer great products
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  that's at a price .40 to $45,000 and it's just a lot easier to
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  manage when it comes to fitting it into your budget.
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  And I love what you said there. You didn't use this word.
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  I'm going to put the word in your mouth.
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  Authenticity. Regarding the Hey, there's a guy
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  who did it as a coaching space. With this.
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  And now you're talking to coaches with this.
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  You're not coming from just those sales or engineering
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  backgrounds like, Oh no, I was in the muck.
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  I did it right where you were doing it.
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  I love that authenticity for news.
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  Check. No.
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  And and you know, it's technology.
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  My iPhone glitches from time to time after, takes it to Sprint
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  store. I mean, it's technology.
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  You're going to have an issue. I wish I could tell you
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  something and tell you for the next 15 years, you're never
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  going to have a single problem. And one of the things that we
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  stand by in that in that commitment is that, hey, you
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  have my cell phone number. If I sold you a machine, you
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  call me. I'm going to have our head
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  technician in touch with within within an hour or two and we're
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  going to we're going to diagnose this task and more importantly
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  create a plan to get you back in action because the machine never
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  goes down at the most opportune time and when it goes down you
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  all you want us to know that somebody's going to put their
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  attention into getting it going again and that's that's been Our
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  Calling card. I think that's a big reason why
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  we've been able to capture a large percentage of.
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  The bleeding approach. So give me the 32nd version.
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  What is the difference between a boost treadmill and a regular
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  when I go to the gym? Yes, I go to the gym treadmill.
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  What's the difference? Why?
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  What's the 40,000? What's?
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  Been we basically are using air pressure to to create lift and
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  reduce impact. So I can put you on there in 1%
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  increments down to 20% of your body weight.
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  I can run you on a treadmill at a speed up to 18 miles an hour
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  at an incline up to 15%. So it's great in the
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  rehabilitation space, it's great in the recovery space.
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  In the in the sports performance space at 18 miles an hour you're
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  going 50 seconds for the meter speed.
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  So it's it's an over speed training tool for a lot of folks
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  and it's I've never. That was probably why I joined
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  boost treadmills when you can imagine my wife's this May, when
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  I came and had a conversation at the dinner table said, hey I'd
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  like to go to boost treadmill shit.
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  We want to leave a job at the University of Tennessee to sell
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  treadmills and no discredit to treadmill sales that around the
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  world but it's just a product I believed in that's a product
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  that I know works and it's a product that you don't have to
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  sell. It sells itself and at that
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  price point it's it's not like taking candy from a baby at
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  Halloween. But it's it's been a much easier
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  sell and we've got high schools and NAI Division Three, division
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  two schools that use our product as much as.
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  Power 5 school. So, well, I know for people that
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  are here at the convention themselves, you have a boots.
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  They can check it out for all of us online and for future
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  podcasts and stuff. Where can they reach BOOST
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  treadmills? Just go online boost
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  treadmills.com and we have a machine here.
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  We make we have a machine here so coaches can come by and check
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  it out run on it. You know we we've got our event
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  tonight that you're coming to and yeah we're just excited to
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  be here and and support the coaches.
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  We know the challenge. We know the grind.
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  We all lived at 8090 hours a week, week after week after
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  week, away from your families. There's a tremendous amount of
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  sacrifice in it and if we can help in any way and outside of
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  just selling you a product, that's what we're here.
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  For I love it. So Boost treadmills.com.
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  I love it. All right, man.
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  We're in every interview with a selfie here.
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  You look much better than I do in that one, man.
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  Thanks for joining us. I appreciate you man.
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