take away signs out best document, freeze on you to see the world, the subscribe. no dw dokey entry. what does it take to become a champion on today's? the 77 percent will travel across the african continent to discover the secrets of people who excelled in florence. my name is let's show and i'm super excited about today's program. if we're quite honest, so many of us have already ditched most of our new year's resolutions. remember how you wanted 2020 for it to be the year where you worked out more and only 8 healthy foods? well, today we'll look at what makes a champion, and i can tell you one thing. people who,

when metals in sports don't give up on their goals. now we asked you what it takes to reach the absolute summits of your sports is a talent grids or the spirit. he has what you told us. kennedy, see, tatiana says there's no definite answer to your question. of course, you have to be talented, have insurance, and on top of everything, you need a very strong fighting spirit. if you want to compete at the highest level. solomon calling back to it says it's a gift from god. and then we have gilbert here who, who says, i will suggest that is support. when you get the support, the rest will be an additional priority for you and for your supporters. thank you very much for those messages will stay with the support and look at why champions need a good mentor. so it takes more than just the test to make a champion. we need someone to recognize our gift polish, the rough diamond within,

and then promote us like a super fast. in other words, we need a mental experienced teachers, coaches or train is to guide us through thick and thin. at times we need someone to kick off the button training. sometimes we need a shoulder to cry out, or a had to pick us up. competitive sport is full of challenges and not just when the match starts for the race to get. so we always need a mental in our corner who fights with us no matter what. in the eastern democratic republic of congo, some young athletes come from imaginatively difficult backgrounds where war and hardship have left the scar. coach people bundle runs of boxing school for youngsters to leave that trouble outside the ring. people, mongo says every job and every hook is aimed at banishing the mentality of rebel soldiers to fancy footwork, and powerful punches the young men loved to take back control of the distance

from the rings of going to be sent in gum line. i wrestled boxing from the domain of maine, as she teaches young south african girls, self defense growing up and paid sound informal settlements has taught. and south africa has the power of paying the high cases of gender based violence. but sadly, not all sports officials have the athletes best interest at heart. in kenya, a sports corruption effects people like web style costs and he was almost no loop. you in a way to lift up i put all the apples i could. but unfortunately, for example, so i'm like the direction which was supposed to be like, um my link to the scholarship and the lympics of really misappropriated funds that were supposed to ask me for my sports administrators with jail to find for best link funds. but the actions killed web started drinking . that's not the only obstacle visa problems also stopped africans

competing internationally for 10 years. pioneer and kayak and king samuel tori. even his passion, personal funds and stacks of paperwork have not always been enough to get him the visa to compete in europe and kayak and championships. we have to get lots of documents is uh like passports because invitations slater's our bank statements. uh, the premium. okay. uh, they quote statements on and all that stuff. i don't know why they do ask for all those documents. it's tough times like these way you need a mental or even a role model to help you through the bureaucratic society and mental hurdles of international competition. ok, get a mentor check. what else intends on? yeah, we have a saying that's goes really held in week one that to finally translation. a body is

not built by briggs and yes, you guessed it. well, now look at nutrition. i know that champions are always very picky about what they need to waiting meals, taking tons of supplements, a protein shake here in there. so what does a champions body need to perform at the highest level? my colleague direction, what do you found some surprising answers at the dw in house jim the, now we're getting read about food, but not just any kind of food, but the ones that is consumed by alternates and people who are hitting the same. whether you'll cycling or sitting out in the field or even pumping or road watching each can make or break to. and that's why i reach out to my colleague, judge or kaci, who tells me more on the same high thoughts thanks for joining us today at. and

so you can start by giving us this quote on the supplements theory. good. so yeah, it gives you this is up to the song it's the last time. yeah. so issue a song as well. okay. and what's the big estimates in terms of nutrition wise and the gym is food eats nothing and it's too. okay. and in terms of hydration, do you know me a device for people to can cause a lot of what the overtime or are you the kind of person who likes to just take you to step at a time to go to the expect to change the

diesel for the last question, let's talk about post, walk out to lunch is when you go to the to have what's your recovery after? what's due if she can hold broken or do you go for anything that you want that's on the table. you gave me the overall nutrition place that's critical. that's totally fine. it depends on the like the treatment. so make sure that it's supposed to be there for you too. thank you so much charge the to thank you, george and rachel,

and i'm sure it's shaped meal here and there is totally okay, right. so what we put in our bodies is immensely important. but once you've got the nutrition part down, it's time to do some actual work to put in the ours. perfect your skills. what does it take to build your physical and mental muscle? rachel, have some answers, you know, it was also everybody is trying to be physical you look so someone trying to exercise and go basically trying to look like the fitness industry is booming and expected to grow by almost 10 percent in the coming years and get those that are $639.00 muscles in our body. no thoughts. a lot of muscles to trade . in uganda, johnson is a 40 builder. he started working out in the gym to improve his mental health of losing my beloved grandma. oh,

that's why i studied gym clothes. twas a way of leaving me from my depression and all that stuff he wanted to fulfill his dream of becoming a more do industrial commercial project. now he wants topless in uganda as a form of exhibition and embracing his african drugs. many people would deed and not have to split a milan into tooth, but gets his grandson, use his own me, his high and i feel better now and i feel myself. and when i look at myself in the mirror, i be like, you know, i'm an art that'd be like, yeah, i can share this amazing art to the people outside. i kind of tie them also be themselves and do something better for them. but hey, did you know that what is the only thing that need exercise, appraised or to and dislike muscles,

they need checking the workouts to stay healthy and fits. this is what pool village champions are doing in a different projects. you've gone to, it's all about the meeting on goals, planning shorts and figuring out how to win in the pool game to focus strategy. and a little bit of the nice know make is that when you made a name a new 1st one has got to be patient out and originally and even when losing the one line, you know it's a one. so we mostly got on what train you don't have to lose hope. you've got to keep training, which will show you maybe also many might not consider brain sports as traditional sports. kenya's elizabeth custody is changing the narrative. the young upcoming chest mazda is one of the best in the country and has won several championships. elizabeth sees there are a lot of things to consider becoming it, says, mazda, before i made debt to them, and i, honestly, i, and them lives now. bless. so my dad, the list what david elizabeth plays with the father to perfect strategies and

tactics has become very difficult to play a coach. plus now she is more advanced than me. so me training huh. the, the, the is i telling what if i knew anything for gym or making strategic moves, exercising with your brain as mine is helpful for a child because this makes since they physically and mentally saying mentally fit, having a sharp mind that's exactly what you need. if you want to excel in east sports, all right, all right. i know there were times when you would only get smears if you told people that's playing video games competitively for hours is considered an actual sport. but we set out to prove once and for all that african mindsets are changing . off within the game is, are uniting showcasing the skills and embracing the thrill of competition,

whether it's mustering strategy in the lead of legends or showing of lightning fast reflexes in call of duty, gaming is blowing up on the coincidence in sub saharan africa. no, and there are some, a 186 medium gamers and that's number is rising according to the office. the games industry reports and get those. you can make some serious cards from each tube in south africa. plans have raised in mediums of dollars by winning tournaments in recent years in ivory coast this, this incredible culture viewing agencies. competitive video gaming is starting to become a thing here. the mindset has to change because video gaming is now in international industry to do it. the important thing about the sport is that it has the capacity to attract a huge audience. so that's who will come and watch in a bit like other sports. today, some games kind of tracking the millions of people who connect on line and the just

to be able to watch others play any and didn't. kenya, sylvia g, a k, a queen arrow is absolutely can i get in this mail dominated scene? and i started out from gaming level, fearful and different from my parents are in different documents, skeptical. why are you listening to and gaming, metals, california studies much. i know the font that's in the west and in asian country is it's possible to make a living also something that you can enjoy. now she's making a fortune out of a whole, be traveling around the world and promoting her brand. and she hold small female games will fly, can you smoke high some of the best prevention still the success i'm just hungry to succeed in all to 100, you know, just overcome these obstacles. and so really my way, since i started my career, that is to say, mentioned um, way a little thing. that leaves the same way. come from some point. i'm just going to

come bulls and make sure it's been forced to move. all right. might take away. so far as that, whether it's a sports boxing or weight lifting, what you need to be really good is to have a very clear goal in mind. but that goal doesn't always have to be winning a metal. in total, michael in the samsung id like you found out that you can get a workout and at the same time be a champion for the environment. the headboards, all good. serve all this stuff we have. yes. i for yeah. republic call schedule. i'm the women of both will be do the judging both with a minute. let me tell you it just know done. emphasize it just pay it to, doesn't matter. we do. this is

a combination of fitness on plan, but room and i go through all echo duncan, you blend go. berman was talking. oh is that possible? what to do when we begin, we are going to the the new home. oh, well, i'm, you print shop. you please this last you see on the way. so let me do it. i did rob. i meant tickets like this. i am, you're on the box a sample. i just want the money to go with. i'm just looking to get up to the, to the spectrum. a dead mod done, you talked to shield on walls of plastic bags and it looks it looks easy to have

one kilogram of black. you can show you where to pick ups on plastic load for each of the plastic bug that was sent on the drug test. the for more than the about the 100 years on the, on the go. so you have lots of doctor that the sun. yes. yes. the people don't think just so you should receive them. i read it was such as the is the victim of the result points. i would recall vista to give them a lot that like i, you know, tell me what is the secret behind your passion for a good judges? i think we need to be in good health and we do sparks. and then also we put there to, oh wow,

i'm just letting me why do you guys decided to, you know, go with women this way. my uh, new. if i talk about the remains, and we know that women watches sports, and we need to get them vivian both into this box. and also to fill that out. obviously, we know that's women in the family. the best thing would talk to, to go ahead and take care of their house. if our misstates, what they're doing, make this kind of feel sense. go to them. we, we, i show that it's a mazda 5 meeting. we'll have a daily stage. yeah. sorry to witness the unity of the combination of these individuals to make a difference in the community. and i love it. so thank you so much. samsung for that report from tuggle. alright, so having a goal is super important,

but you and i know that setting a goal is one thing. following through is another thing. we get distracted, discouraged, we chose to watch tv instead of going for a run. so our final question today was kind of a mindset, do you need to become a champion in elder? it's can, yeah. my colleague, edith combined me had a deep conversation with the one and only multiple marathon record semester. and he would keep, cho get the press colton. goat, which is short for the greatest of old time american gonna live, keep children indeed, defies human standards, especially since a kenyan broke records in vienna in 2019. as the 1st human in history keeps choke, it broke the 2 hour barrier at most honestly, average pace of competing one kilometer in 2 minutes. 50 seconds in 2021. he won his 2nd gold medals. but who is the person behind the world famous

athlete? it's a very big firm, it's very beautiful. you don't plan on retiring single, you know, you know, but the not yet, but they those, but i totally know what i have to say. so we'll who is here. but you wouldn't stop running. i'm guessing maybe the most competing. oh no, it's still fun. yeah. yes. i mean it's, it's a, be me, that's not, this is the agency you. when you see everything that you've accomplished, surely you must feel very proud of yourself. oh yes, i am proud of myself. i am proud of those locally as a in, in, in, in my, my surrounding the to the time i couldn't. yeah. could there piano? yeah, that's actually what i wanted to talk about the people who are around you and how you are able to keep a very strong mind despite some of the challenges. so is it okay for go sits in

your bun. i saw some haystacks dubia going to take you back to us and put you in haste to. okay. okay. it's good athletes in particular and do a lot of stress and pressure. they have mental challenges, which they sometimes don't talk to people about how would you assess the states of sportsmen and women, the mental health, particularly in kenya. right now. i think i could have this, this a good sports man who might not carries this increase. and then send for attendance, but so it's sort of a, it's, it's a, it's a set of silence. a leasing would have been set on the face, neck of the people. have you ever found yourself in that situation where you were experiencing these high levels of stress? and so how did you deal with it? i've been set on that for the 18 year for the last 18. so than most the people to what talk to lean in school with an outside sport. so i thing on my left one,

i be not really of, of, of the following now. right. if i lose, i'm not in the find you, i'll tell you myself which i call, which i can live without this happening so they can die with those things. what are these values that you see? you know this so important to you, the, to actually country without them the phone you can you indicative in school and what they mean by and took these kind of to, to go to the next to mind, cut a to face. anything we mean in your life. to funds you of the family to find yourself displaying the funds you of course, the distance so i can live without, without those values. and that is my. so who are these people that you've surrounded yourself with? who you say, you know, the ones who quoted together when things are a bit shaky. so i'm surrounded by my court, but took fun. i'm getting more to follow as i'm cutting the. what's needed from me in spite of stephen of leaving this concept. yeah. can you tell me maybe some of

the, the key points that to he is he's taught to you over the years. i mean, you've been with him a long time. is that the, the 1st the point is trusting myself about i treated myself as the best on leaving openness to life. those last 34. and if i could, we just we keep telling me when that when i still yeah. yeah. i guess i'm trying to understand how you manage to control your emotions so well because he said in previous interviews, a disappearing is one of the ways to do that. is this the only way? because you're very tempered, i understand life. no, no, and this was the thing you need to understand life on anything comes in the way, you know, make, i think we need to understand what they see, what they dislike vendor. so tell it's that's wonderful. and how would you advise, you know, these young professionals, i'm sure you run with them here all the time. they must see you on the streets and want to give you a high 5 and one to get to autograph. how do you advise them to face the challenges of today because young people are grappling with a lot a you need to,

to show that you are his profession, not to feel professional and is just pending, acadia. who respect your profession? alison? he woke up really and respect ethics or football field profession allison. so it's some of the things i totally find you at the end of bus one. it's easy to manage. it's easy to understand anything under and stealing a post the boy. but don't know if you've seen anything that that typically is a file you use or a c, e, or he's funny or the end of my not home. i kind of what i call it a sweet and some what, how, you know, they've got the flu and i really love that to keep coming back to this whole idea of values. and i think i'm finally getting it that if it's done for something, then it's hard for people to present one equals in you, in a sense, when you think about your future at the moment because you are mine who's accomplished everything in your career at this point what do you visualize?

oh, i think i have visualizing that. so if i need to map code or country town and country . and while i'm in one of the full quarter to 12, i'll tell you that because it can support cd and c along create a form to inspire the next generation. and i'm and 10000 people that took leave. you even say yes in your hands and transferred to you might say things more than you can sort of vote for that's about any other profession. delta we need to buckle to expect that professions. we need people to 3 and 50 and a set of signing 15 to in their families, their friends that may have of that. so then on plus, that's the thing. my entities, my bucket please. yeah, that's a very busy bucket. just so how do you plan on making us are running nation or running world because it's one thing to be inspired by you, but it's another thing to wake up in the morning and run yourself. i'm trying to tell people that so before you do anything, even spare you documented,

sandra. what about this, jen? this will behind us who are saying i'm the other be they don't have time. it's too busy the schedule. what do you say to the there is nobody who is the same thing. so that is notice one screen facing before. that is our responsibility. but not responsibilities. the same question. you just need to make time for it. yes. yeah. and stick with the time. oh my goodness, where you taking notes cuz i sure was and then control gets too much wisdom. that's why you're the best to wells that does it for us here at the 77 percent. remember to follow us on social media for more great content and inspirational stories like this. i'm sure you're all fired up, ready to go out there and pursue your gold. let me give you some music to motivate you on that journey. fire boy a demo and the smoke have the perfect message for you . shampoo in i live so and i'm off to the gym.

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