#493 Ben Askren - Olympian & 2x Hodge Winner on His New Book Extreme Balance
Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)
Wrestling Changed My Life
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:15.1 | Certain kids have a lower self-esteem and that makes them very willing to listen to their coaches to do what their coaches say and you know that part of them is great but then when there's a self-esteem is low and they don't think I'm the freaking man I can go win it title I can go win at Fargo if they |
| 0:20.2 | don't actually think that they're generally not going to. |
| 0:30.8 | We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. |
| 0:35.8 | Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say nothing in life has impacted me more than the things wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience. |
| 0:42.0 | Toughness. Some guys have it, some guys don't. |
| 0:44.0 | Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed. |
| 0:50.0 | And everything that has shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned through the sport of wrestling. |
| 1:00.0 | For me, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy. |
| 1:07.1 | We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle, natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the ingredient. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort. |
| 1:21.0 | It humbled me, thought me humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling. |
| 1:27.2 | I think it's the learning to adapt, right? You learn, you learn how to adapt, you learn how to |
| 1:32.1 | solve problems. |
| 1:33.0 | You know, if I look back at my time, I could at wrestling. |
| 1:36.0 | If they gave me one thing more than anything else, it's been toughness. |
| 1:39.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Wrestling Change My life podcast. It's your host Ryan Warner. Our guest today is the great Ben Asgren, |
| 1:48.8 | Olympian, MMA World Champion, two-time NCAA champ, two-time hodge trophy winner. |
| 1:55.0 | Ben just came out with a new book called Extreme Balance. |
| 1:59.0 | You know, Ben is big into sports psychology. |
| 2:01.0 | I personally listened to his mental Mondays and so this |
| 2:04.4 | book kind of wraps his his thesis on sports performance into a book. So I hope you |
| 2:09.8 | all enjoy it and without further do folks let's get into this podcast with the great |
| 2:14.0 | Ben Asgren. Ben Asgren welcome back to the podcast. Thank you, thanks for |
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