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I'm Corey Twine and I'm a strength coach
here at Johnson Space Center and I help

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astronauts keep their bodies physically ready for
activities on Earth and beyond. When astronauts

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are experiencing long-duration space flight there
is a deconditioning effect that they experience

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and likewise there are cardiovascular consequences that
they experience. And one part of our job is to

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also help astronauts get back to their baseline
fitness post-flight. This machine here is the ARED

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or Advanced Resistive Exercise Device. And this
is the machine that our astronauts get all of

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their resistance training while they're in flight.
Essentially here, this is the works as the barbell

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and we can move this bar up or down with whatever
exercise that we're doing. This work is important:

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one to support the astronauts, also to keep them
healthy, also to make sure that they don't get injured.

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What inspires me is this is to being part
of a team that's doing the greater mission and

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seeing that overall outcome of everybody within
the team filling in and doing their job and just

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creating a great successful outcome of the mission.
I decided early on, when I was in undergrad, that

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I wanted to be a strength coach when I had a a
friend of mine go to play college football and

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he told me that they have people that just
work in the weight room. And I knew at that point

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that's what I wanted to do. I think who inspired me
my most, the most, about my journey was probably my

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father. My father always had a certain work ethic
that was always somewhat intimidating even when I

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was growing up but it it definitely helped build
a discipline and the understanding of okay you

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can do it type of understanding that I thought was
important. And he always always held me accountable

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for everything, but I never questioned his love
for me through that whole time. I think one of the

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coolest aspects of with working here with serving
the astronaut corps in the vein of physical

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readiness is that they trust us to be able to
be that resource for them to provide exercise

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counter measures for them while they're in space
and I think that trust is so important but it's

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very special because they're about to leave the
planet for 6 months and then they're saying hey

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we're trusting you to help us stay healthy while
we're off the planet so I think that is really cool.

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