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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

975: Looking & Performing Like History's Greatest Athletes

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.811.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin assess the attributes of some of the greatest athletes in history and what we can take from them to improve our appearance and performance.

  • The season for change and the optimal beard length. (2:31)
  • The guys reminisce on their first kiss. (7:02)
  • History’s greatest ‘Ancient Athletes’ and their attributes. (13:30)
  • Looking & performing to achieve a balanced physique. (22:40)
  • Why are we drawn to a muscular physique? (28:15)
  • Getting someone reconnected to their body and the importance of treating new movements as skills. (32:40)
  • The process of creating MAPS Performance: Train like an athlete. Perform like an athlete. (41:45)

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Transcript

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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.

0:06.0

Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

In the super awesome episode of The Mind Pump, in the first 15 minutes, you know, we have a lot of fun conversation.

0:20.0

We talked about our first kisses.

0:23.0

That was great.

0:24.0

I talked a little bit about Adam's awesome outfit.

0:27.0

He looks real nice today.

0:28.0

Shaved off his beard to show off his wonderful cheeks.

0:31.0

Handsomeness.

0:32.0

Very nice.

0:33.0

But then we get into talking about ancient athletes.

0:37.0

I brought up this article on some of the most decorated athletes of Greece and Rome, the sculptures, what they look like, why they looked the way they did, how they trained and women, which is cool.

0:49.0

Yes, really awesome.

0:50.0

And then that got us into talking about training for full spectrum athletic performance.

0:56.0

That looks like why it's so fun.

0:58.0

And what kind of physique that produces, you know, like think about this.

1:01.0

If you went to the gym and stopped worrying about how you look and all you worried about was, am I stronger?

1:09.0

Am I faster?

1:10.0

Am I more agile?

1:11.0

Do I have better mobility?

1:13.0

And can I get better stamina?

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