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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

203: Rich Roll | Plant Powered Athlete

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8874 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

One of the World's Fittest Men, began his journey to health at 39. As a full-time ultra-endurance athlete, Wellness Evangelist & plant-based nutrition advocate- he believes we all must "be more audacious in our aspirations." On this episode he allows us to rethink our relationship with nutrition, our obsession with protein and how to access our "vast reservoirs of untapped potential."

 

LESSONS:

 

  1. Ask yourself what you want your life experience to be
  2. Always strive to maximize your potential
  3. Don't let perfection be the enemy of progress to your fitness and nutrition
  1. Mood Follows Action: train yourself to be consistent regardless of your emotional state
  2. Don't be afraid to set goals that scare you



TIME STAMPS:

 

6:30 : "Plant based diet isn't just celery & carrots"

7:15 : How to promote longevity

11:00 : Are you a fan of moderation or prone to extremes?

12:20 : An existential crisis at 39 years old: being pudgy & a heart scare

12:45: Recalibrate your relationship with food, nutrition & fitness

13:15: Rehab for food: a seven day juice cleanse

14:25 Understanding the growth and evolution of plant based diets

 

LINKS:

 

Official website:

http://www.richroll.com/

Link to Rich Roll podcast:

http://www.richroll.com/category/podcast/

Rich Roll's book Finding Ultra

http://www.richroll.com/finding-ultra/



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CREDITS:

 

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

 

Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.

 

Synopsis – Matt Baatz

 

© 2018 Spartan

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. We're on the road today and we've got an incredible interview.

0:04.4

First we want to introduce our panel. We got Tim Nye,

0:06.9

Sefra, Johnny, Marion, our incredible producer and Andrea who's making everything work

0:11.6

with the production assistance.

0:13.0

Rich Roll, this guy has a huge, huge following and there was a reason for it.

0:18.0

He went from out of shape to incredibly in shape, and he's going to tell us how awesome story

0:24.4

awesome results and yeah check it out we're gonna come back to the end and talk about it

0:28.4

blessings to the plans I know you from the internet. I've seen you all over the internet. You do

0:49.2

very long distance endurance races and you do them

0:53.2

without eating like a pig or a giant turkey leg.

0:58.1

Nothing with a face, nothing with a mother.

1:00.0

Nothing with a face, not a mother.

1:01.6

I like that, but plants have mothers.

1:04.4

Yeah, I guess that's true, right?

1:06.8

But everybody I talked to, everybody

1:11.4

says, what about the protein and it drives me nuts because I grew up with a

1:16.6

mom that was just like you and she pushed this in the 70s and just you know

1:21.6

raw fruits raw vegetables as much as you can stay away from the processed foods.

1:25.0

But and I thought because it was in the 70s that that was percolating that by now people would know that you don't need like a bucket of chicken wings or whatever,

1:35.6

but it doesn't seem like it's made its way to mainstream.

1:38.6

Yeah, people are obsessed with protein.

1:41.4

I wish that word didn't even exist because I think there's so many

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