1035: Joe DeFranco

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin talk with world-renowned strength and conditioning Joe DeFranco.

The moment he knew he was meant to help people. (6:25)
How his ‘tunnel-focused’ mentality jump-started his career early on. (8:12)
How did the relationship with Onnit happen? Fall out? (11:30)
His process of scaling himself out of the day to day gym owner duties. (23:40)
His biggest problems with CrossFit. (28:29)
The evolution of his training methodology. (44:24)
Are there different protocols of how he assesses the average person compared to an athlete? (50:05)
How does he assess a ‘freak’ athlete? (52:42)
The amazing story of working with Miles Austin: From ‘no-name’ athlete to NFL star. (54:24)
How the ‘gym family’ is a REAL thing. (1:03:42)
What surprised him the most about the ‘politics’ in pro sports? (1:06:21)
Why studies don’t tell the whole story: The importance of context. (1:09:47)
His take on social media: The good, the bad & the ugly. (1:17:18)
How the more you learn, the more you go back and progress. (1:26:45)
How does he incorporate ‘new’ technologies into his life? Clients? (1:28:50)
Why the more you know, the more the answer is “it depends on A, B, C, D…” (1:34:15)
Has he ruffled any feathers in the world of academia? A ‘conscious competence’ rant on sled pulling/pushing. (1:35:22)
What makes his certification different/stand out from the others out in the space? (1:44:52)

Featured Guest/People Mentioned

Joe DeFranco (@defrancosgym) • Instagram/Twitter
Website
YouTube
Podcast
Tim Ferriss (@timferriss) Instagram
Aubrey Marcus (@aubreymarcus) Instagram
Paul "Triple H" Levesque (@tripleh) Instagram
Miles Austin (@MilesAustinIII) Twitter
JB Morin (@jb_morin) Twitter

Transcript

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0:00.0	If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
0:05.7	Might, I might, up with your hosts.
0:09.0	Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.1	Oh man, what a good fucking time this was.
0:18.8	Dude, there's a few people in this space that I have looked up to for a very, very long time.
0:26.9	I really looked up to you and respected.
0:30.1	And Joe DeFranco is one of those people.
0:32.1	He's somebody that I, for a while, as a personal trainer, I was like, this is the guy.
0:37.6	He knows his stuff.
0:39.2	He's communicating the right stuff.
0:40.6	He's got integrity.
0:41.6	Yeah, he's a legend in the strength conditioning world.
0:44.0	Oh, and what was crazy was knowing him and being so like, again, I followed this guy
0:49.5	for so long, contacting him on Instagram.
0:52.2	And he's like, oh, I love listening to my pump.
0:54.2	And I was like, what the?
0:55.9	It's so crazy to hear someone that you, you know, somewhat idolized, say good things
1:00.6	about you and what you're doing.
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:03.2	So he's been putting out, I remember as a kid, right?
1:05.1	So we were high school.
1:06.8	So he's been putting out fire since I think like 99.
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