455: Mind Pump's First Sponsored Athlete- Mike Salemi, Kettlebell Master of Sport

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Mike Salemi personifies the Mind Pump philosophy. His training, his diet, his lifestyle and his mindset is that of a champion. Mike is a Kettlebell Master of Sport, 2016 #1 in the 78kg division of World Association of Kettlebell Sports Clubs 32kg Long Cycle and he is also featured in our newest program KB4A, Kettlebells 4 Aesthetics. In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin interview Mike and get into the training and mindset that has propelled him to the top of his sport.

Sal’s steam room story update 1:35
Sal describes how he met Mike 11:40
How did Mike discover resistance training and powerlifting? 13:15
With his success/being drug free athlete, was he ever tempted to use performance enhancing drugs? 17:23
- Harder time gaining size and easier time gaining strength? 20:30
- Powerlifting to Olympic lifting
How did gymnastics play a part into his transition to Olympic lifting 20:58
What is kettlebell sport? Competition Events description 24:50
Mike’s opinion of Crossfit 28:12
How have you seen your body change going from powerlifting/Olympics lifting to kettlebell style training? 32:44
Has father time hit you yet? Do you notice you have to put extra time with flexibility/mobility before you train? Does every sport have an age range? 36:28
Have you applied technology to your training? 41:06
- Importance of discipline and recovery / Know how to read your body
What does his training look right now? How will it look after? Importance of programming 48:51
Aesthetics vs. Function / Inner ego struggle? 52:43
Mike’s take on nutrition 1:01:00
First sponsored Mind Pump Athlete

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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.
0:06.3	Might, might, up with your hosts.
0:09.2	Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.8	We just had a fantastic interview with Mind Plum's first sponsored athlete, Mike Salami.
0:19.8	He's a kettlebell sport athlete and we talk a lot about the sport of kettlebell.
0:23.9	We talk a lot about training and exercise.
0:26.4	He's very, very knowledgeable when it comes to exercise.
0:30.5	Down to the detail in terms of taking metrics like hormone responses and heart rate variability.
0:37.9	Real advance, but very, very interesting information.
0:40.9	We talk about nutrition.
0:42.5	We talk about power lifting and Olympic lifting.
0:44.5	He's a walking example of everything we talk about.
0:47.5	Totally.
0:48.5	He is one of the people in our new kettlebell for aesthetics program.
0:53.4	He's actually teaching some of the skills in the skills section of the program.
0:58.0	You get that program for free.
1:00.4	You get the kettlebell for aesthetics program for free with the purchase of maps aesthetic.
1:06.6	Maps aesthetic is a program designed for you to train your body according to how your
1:11.4	body looks and making it look a particular way to train weak body parts and to help you
1:15.7	program your workouts.
1:17.8	Kettlebell for aesthetics is an aesthetic based kettlebell workout program, which is awesome.
1:22.8	If all you want to do is work out with a pair of kettlebells and you want to build muscle
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