{"id":549,"date":"2016-08-17T03:09:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T03:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/hubershow\/?p=549"},"modified":"2016-10-21T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:05:22","slug":"28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/28\/","title":{"rendered":"#28 John Lair &#8220;Coaching Athletes To Achieve The Impossible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_696\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-549-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/breakthrough\/content.blubrry.com\/breakthrough\/Huber-Lair_Final.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/breakthrough\/content.blubrry.com\/breakthrough\/Huber-Lair_Final.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/breakthrough\/content.blubrry.com\/breakthrough\/Huber-Lair_Final.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/breakthrough\/content.blubrry.com\/breakthrough\/Huber-Lair_Final.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=549-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/breakthrough\/content.blubrry.com\/breakthrough\/Huber-Lair_Final.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Huber-Lair_Final.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/breakthrough-basketball-jim\/id1038442051?mt=2&amp;ls=1#episodeGuid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breakthroughbasketball.com%2Fhubershow%2F%3Fp%3D549\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><div>The odds were stacked fairly high against Coach John Lair and his athlete, Chevi Peters. \u00a0 Doctors had predicted an early demise for young Chevi, telling his parents he wouldn&#8217;t live to see the age of three. \u00a038 surgeries later, he was a beaten down teenager who weighed 98 lbs, his body covered in scars, his head and eyes perpetually downcast, he had fought more battles than he could bear. \u00a0When Police called his brand new Special Olympics PowerLifting Coach John Lair, it was with awful news. \u00a0Chevi had tried to kill himself by driving his car into oncoming traffic. \u00a0Chevi had crashed his car and was sitting on a park bench rocking and sobbing and talking about wanting to die when Coach Lair arrived on the scene.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/28-2\/ \u200e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Chevi-Peters-and-John-Lair.jpg\" alt=\"Chevi Peters and John Lair\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 300 lb mountain of a coach and the 98 lb teen held one another and talked and cried on that bench for hours together. \u00a0After the tears, a promise to stop thinking about dying, and get busy living a new seemingly impossible dream, to become the greatest Special Olympic Powerlifter in the world. \u00a0They had yet to lift a weight when Chevi drove that car into traffic. \u00a0They have never stopped lifting weights, and one another since that day on the park bench.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Chevi Peters won Gold medals in deadlift for lifting 350 pounds, squatting 275 pounds and for achieving a combination score of 785, an accumulation of how much he lifted in each category, which made him a three-time world champion at the Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles. \u00a0He did all this while weighing only 118 pounds!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>John Lair was recognized as the 2014 Special Olympics North America Coach of The Year, an honor awarded to a single individual among 120 thousand fellow volunteers. \u00a0The impressive scope and contributions of all those coaches, puts the momentousness of this award into perspective.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>John embodies Special Olympics&#8217; commitment to providing every athlete with the quality coaching they deserve,&#8221; said Annette Lynch, Senior Manager, Coaching Excellence &amp; Sport Education, Special Olympics North America, adding, &#8220;what he accomplishes through his coaching is truly exemplary &#8211; he represents the best of the best amongst hundreds of thousands of excellent volunteer coaches. His technical expertise, combined with his deep commitment to, and compassion for, the athletes of Special Olympics should inspire us all to do more and reach further. His coaching and caring don&#8217;t stop when the whistle blows.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We encourage to listen and find out techniques that John and Chevi have used to achieve what people would believe to be impossible. \u00a0Enjoy this episode of The Jim Huber Show!<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What You will Hear In This Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>0:36- Getting to know coach John Lair and Chevi Peters<\/li>\n<li>2:08- How Chevi chose to be a power lifter<\/li>\n<li>3:15- The conversation at the park bench that saved Chevi\u2019s life<\/li>\n<li>4:57- A tragedy in coach Lair\u2019s life that motivated him to help Chevi and start Special Olympics in Pittsburg, Kansas<\/li>\n<li>8:00- The pure joy of Special Olympics that everyone should experience<\/li>\n<li>11:04- The importance of teaching life skills through sports<\/li>\n<li>13:15- The unreal numbers Chevi performed to become \u201cWorld Champion\u201d<\/li>\n<li>15:31- Explanation of why Chevi is nick named the \u201cManimal\u201d<\/li>\n<li>17:06- Goal setting is an important tool that coach Lair uses with his athletes<\/li>\n<li>17:54- Different ways to get involved and make an impact through Special Olympics<\/li>\n<li>19:25- Ways to get the best out of your athletes<\/li>\n<li>21:17- How Chevi has impacted coach Lair and Special Olympics<\/li>\n<li>23:53- The support Under Armour has shown to Chevi<\/li>\n<li>24:38- Celebrities Chevi has met through being a \u201cWorld Champion\u201d<\/li>\n<li>26:12- Ways to donate to New Hope Bulldogs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow New Hope Bulldogs, Coach John Lair and Chevi Peters on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/newhopebulldogs\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/newhopebulldogs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please leave a reply if you have any suggestions or comments about the \u201cWin At All Cost\u201d mentality or hit me up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimHuberShow\">@jimhubershow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember: \u201cLet\u2019s Make The World Better Through Sports\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odds were stacked fairly high against Coach John Lair and his athlete, Chevi Peters. \u00a0 Doctors had predicted an early demise for young Chevi, telling his parents he wouldn&#8217;t live to see the age of three. \u00a038 surgeries later, he was a beaten down teenager who weighed 98 lbs, his body covered in scars, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}