271: Plot Twist: Plot Twist: How a Doctor’s Insult Inspired Martinus Evans to Run Marathons and Redefine Fitness for All

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this bite-sized plot twist episode of The Light Watkins Show, we revisit the incredible turning point in Martinus Evans’ life—a journey fueled by defiance, resilience, and a desire to prove the naysayers wrong.It all began with a random hip injury that led to a doctor's blunt and humiliating diagnosis: "You're fat, and you'll die if you try to run a marathon." For most, such words might have been crushing, but for Martinus, they sparked a fire. Determined to prove his doctor wrong, he walk...

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0:00.0	I'm going to the doctor's office, and, you know, he's like, looking at me, he's like, well, Mr. Evans, like, I know why you're in pain.
0:10.2	I'm like, all right, like, lay it on me.
0:11.9	What is it?
0:12.5	Like, you know already, you ain't diagnosed me, you ain't felt on me and nothing.
0:17.0	You ain't, we ain't even look at my chart.
0:18.9	Like, how do you know why I'm in pain? And he's like,
0:22.4	because you're fat. Like, what? Like, you're fat. And he's like goes on this whole tangent.
0:31.1	You got a pregnant woman's stomach, these tities, and like, you need to start walking. You you need to lose weight you're going to die and
0:40.2	like all these other things and like hearing that brought me back to some of the stuff that I
0:45.9	heard throughout my childhood or just growing up and I remember just saying sarcastically him
0:51.9	because I'm like at this point I've checked out so I'm like yeah whatever and I remember like all right like yeahically him because I'm like, at this point, I've checked out. So I'm like, yeah, whatever.
0:55.7	And I remember like, all right, like, yeah, I'm going to run a marathon.
0:59.7	Like, I'm going to run a marathon.
1:01.2	It's like, you run a marathon?
1:03.9	Dude had the most biggest laugh ever.
1:06.9	Like, I told a joke.
1:08.5	It was like, you run a marathon?
1:10.1	Like, you're going to die.
1:12.1	And like, what do you mean?
1:13.8	I'm going to die.
1:14.8	Like, you're going to die.
1:16.6	Like, you try it.
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