109: Charlie Brenneman | Fighter’s Mind

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

UFC fighter “The Spaniard” and lifelong wrestler, Charlie grew up in normal circumstances. As he puts it “I’m just like you,” he didn’t have to overcome a great deprivation or trauma, he just worked hard and went on to great successes. Brenneman dispels the myth that you must follow a Rocky type trajectory to compete with the best. Instead he shares the simple steps he took, including surrounding himself with good mentors and Consistency. He arrived by realizing that in a sport like wrestling in which “heartbreak far outweighs the triumph” the journey is what matters.

Lessons:
1. Being in a normal family that provides good core values and a supportive environment is an underestimated advantage. It doesn’t take extraordinary circumstances to do extraordinary things.
2. Every opportunity, no matter how small, counts. Things add up.
3. If you don’t move the proverbial line in the sand, you’re never going to get best.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Wanna Peachy. Here we go, ready. Ready.
0:03.0	Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. Here we are in beautiful Pittsfield, Vermont. Dr. Johnny, we have
0:08.6	David Deluca. David Deluca. We have Sethra. And we have Joe Joe's back from Singapore.
0:13.6	Back in for Singapore.
0:14.6	We're at Muddies, Muddies was Puties.
0:17.6	We're out in the woods.
0:18.8	It's kind of, how would you describe this place?
0:21.2	This is an oasis of funkiness in the Green Mountains.
0:27.0	I think it's also reclaimed forge funness.
0:29.0	Yeah.
0:30.0	Anyways, who are we, who are we, uh, who are we, uh, who are we, uh are we are talking today
0:33.4	a case Spaniard wrestler top of his game becomes an mama fire plays like a pro
0:38.9	I think anybody listening is gonna be blown away because you're gonna to be able to take life lessons, Johnny, you know best,
0:44.0	from wrestling, from fighting, on how to be driven, how to get ahead and how to push for adversity.
0:58.3	All right, We are here for Spartan up the podcast in Vermont with Charlie Brenneman. Proper pronunciation was that good?
1:00.5	That is correct yes and we're talking about as as we always do, what makes somebody successful?
1:04.5	Could be a mile, a monk, a business person.
1:06.7	In this case, it's an MMA fighter.
1:08.9	And, or a wrestler, really, you started wrestling.
1:11.2	So lots of people out there watching can't get up off the
1:14.2	couch, can't take the first step forward, they're victims in their life, right? They're
1:18.0	not victors. They don't have enough money, they don't have enough time time they got screwed somehow.
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