050: Austin Malleolo | One Moment Changed Everything for the Crossfitter

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Austin Malleolo is a formidable CrossFit competitor and level three trainer, but he says there was not much indication earlier in his life that he would achieve what he has. He was a troubled youth who was making many bad decisions that ultimately lead him to his path and passion. Instead of allowing him to continue down a trajectory that was aimed straight at a life of dead ends and possible prison, his father wisely opted to derail that destiny. In this podcast Mallelollo describes how this change in his frame of reference got him back on the track to a fulfilling life.

Lessons:

1. Physical disadvantages just mean that you have to work harder than everyone else to succeed.
2. Everybody needs someone in their corner.
3. Practice with someone better than you.
4. You control your own destiny.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Spartan Up Podcast. We're going to interview somebody every week from all over the world and see what they did in their life to become successful, no matter how they define it.
0:12.0	Hey, welcome back to the barn here in Pittsfield Vermont, Spartanup Podcast.com.
0:16.4	I've got Dr. Nye.
0:18.6	The science guy.
0:19.6	You know?
0:20.6	Yeah, it was very nice.
0:22.4	Colonel Nye. the military guy.
0:25.0	We've got Sethra, the Madison woman.
0:28.0	Yeah, kind of sounds like mellow, yellow.
0:30.0	Oh, that's not. And we got Jona Saina who needs no introduction.
0:32.0	I'm Johnny Waite. the camera is Marion our guru producer and
0:38.0	But in front of the camera on this one is a guy named first name Austin Meliello really interesting cool guy
0:45.4	crossfitter he talks about well where he went from nothing to crossfit
0:50.0	head elite status super elite status and but the really cool thing you're going to find
0:55.0	out in this I'm not going to tell but just he was a bad-ass youth got a lot of
0:59.4	trouble he got sent away into the wilderness to get things back on track and it's a pretty incredible story about what he a It was very interesting for me to learn that moment and how you can take somebody that's going in the wrong direction and put them on the right direction.
1:18.0	Yeah, and what it takes to turn that around. Yeah, so cool, let's go look at it.
1:21.0	All right, we are here with Austin Maly yellow.
1:24.6	Did I nail that?
1:25.6	Close.
1:26.6	Italian. Yes.
1:27.6	Reebok Cross Fit One in Canton, Mass.
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