John Welbourn

4 days ago | si.com | John Welbourn

Bert Sorin, CEO of Sorinex Exercise Equipment, delivered a powerful and deeply personal talk at Power Athlete on what it means to “Be Legendary.” Unlike your leadership keynote packed with metrics or motivational clichés, Sorin’s presentation was a raw, hard-earned conversation. A blend of wisdom, failure, humor, and experience from a man who’s focused on building culture. Sorin started with, “I’m not a doctor. I’m not an Olympian.

5 days ago | si.com | John Welbourn

World-renowned performance coach and global educator, Derek Woodske, delivered a powerful message that cut straight through the noise: success happens in the smallest moments. With decades of experience in sport, Woodske has seen firsthand how the top 1% separates themselves not just by genetics or opportunity, but by how they treat every single hour of their training.

6 days ago | si.com | John Welbourn

At Power Athlete Headquarters, Andy Stumpf, former Navy SEAL, world-record skydiver, and unapologetically direct speaker, took the stage not with a slide deck, but with a story. A story about evolution, adversity, and the brutality needed to become a resilient leader. “By a show of hands – who here is a leader?” When only half the hands rose, he didn’t miss a beat: That’s a problem, he said.

6 days ago | si.com | John Welbourn

In a sport built on power, Laura Phelps-Stackhouse didn’t just outlift her competition, she outthought them. Her dominance wasn’t just about strength. It was about precision, control, and technical fluency in one of powerlifting’s most unforgiving disciplines: equipped lifting. To the untrained eye, squatting in gear might look like just more weight on the bar and the lifter wrapped up like a rubber band man. But for the lifters who live it, there’s a brutal science to the process.

1 week ago | si.com | John Welbourn

At a past Power Athlete event, former Navy SEAL and seasoned speaker Andy Stumpf delivered a sharp, no-nonsense lesson on goal setting that cut through the fluff and got to the heart of what it really takes to succeed. His message was clear – set massive goals. But never losing sight of the smallest step in front of you. Stumpf began with a simple metaphor: a domino. “A domino is just two inches tall, but it can knock over another one 1.5 times its size.