222: Mind Pump meets Spartan Up - a conversation with Sal Di Stefano
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Mind Pump host and fitness/wellness guru Sal Di Stefano sits down with Spartan Race founder Joe DeSena to talk about the state of the fitness industry and what you can do today to be stronger and healthier.
You may be fast at something, but are you efficient? Repetitive frequency of proper skills builds effective health and wellness regiments - getting you to your maximum potential. This week we have Sal Di Stefano back on the podcast, discussing the platforms of "new media" and their role in shifting the "big ship" of fitness.
LESSONS
- Podcasts are like the new "Guttenberg Printing Press," causing a communication revolution.
- Fitness Vs. Wellness: address mental, physical and spiritual to solve the US health epidemic.
- Most chronic disease can be solved by changes in lifestyle and attitude.
- Fitness and health are empowering.
- The internal "locus" of control is knowing you can do something for yourself to improve your situation.
- Speak your message in a way that empowers people.
- If you do one form of exercise, Sal says make it resistance training.
- Weights are the most modifiable form of resistance training.
- Change bad patterns by repeating good patterns frequently and often.
- Frequency is important when it comes to movement and health.
LINKS
MInd Pump https://www.mindpumpmedia.com/
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TIME STAMPS
00:00 intro
00:58 FitAID
1:30 Interview begins
2:00 Spartan Tea: "He of the Iron"
4:30 Mind Pump comes to Spartan
5:30 Podcasts as "new media"
7:20 Why "old media" is dying
8:00 An overlying purpose of fitness
9:00 Wellness as a solution to the health epidemic
9:40 Spartan women
10:45 Chronic disease and the need to change your lifestyle
11:00 Internal "locus" of control
11:25 Empowerment through speech
11:45 shifting the big ship of fitness
12:25 FitAID break
13:50 Interview continues
14:00 Recommendations for getting started in exercise
15:20 Significance of resistance training
16:30 Weights as a modifiable form of resistance training
18:00 Joe's non-negotiable exercises
19:40 The human body and efficiency
21:00 Pattern interrupt
22:00 Frequency in movement and health
23:30 Problems with training to fatigue
26:22 Sefra, Angel, Johnny & Joe discuss the interview
30:00 FitAID close
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye and guest host Angel Sanz.
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
© 2018 Spartan
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| 0:13.1 | Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. This is exciting. We've got Sal de Stefano from Mind Pump. This guy is so powerful. His message is huge. I don't even tell you about it. You're just going to watch and find out about it. What we're trying to find out is the Spartan mindset. What is it that makes them tick? What does it make them successful? |
| 0:14.5 | Who are we? |
| 0:15.1 | We've got Sefra. |
| 0:16.7 | She's here most every week. |
| 0:18.0 | She brings a real sense of the natural of this. |
| 0:19.6 | It's amazing. |
| 0:20.2 | We've got Anhales'ons here all all the way from Spain a great friend of the |
| 0:23.4 | podcast Johnny Waite Joe de Senna founder and CEO of Spartan Race got Marion our |
| 0:28.0 | producer who makes this work and another person she makes work is Andrea and |
| 0:31.5 | this will come out on Tuesdays, right? |
| 0:33.9 | And then Wednesday we've added Dr. L. |
| 0:36.0 | Who's going to keep your mind right? |
| 0:37.0 | She's going to keep your mind right. |
| 0:38.1 | We've got Thursday with Zachak, Avinash. |
| 0:39.9 | Immediate action points you can put into play right away in your life? |
| 0:42.6 | Friday we're at Dr. Galotti. |
| 0:44.8 | Dr. Galotti. |
| 0:46.8 | Has he been promoted? |
| 0:47.6 | Is he a doctor? |
| 0:48.6 | Yes now. |
| 0:49.6 | You were a doctor, so he's a doctor. |
| 0:51.1 | But anyway, and then we're gonna be adding more. We might even add Richard Branson, |
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