992: Sanjay Rawal

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin speak with Sanjay Rawal, a filmmaker with a fascinating story.

The history of the 3100 race. (4:40)
Why running has never gone out of favor. The evolution of marathon running. (8:25)
How do ancestral people run compared to modern westerners? (12:11)
What is the spiritual connection to running? (14:00)
Why do other spiritual teachers/practices try to separate the physical from the spiritual? (17:50)
What type of person does this kind of race attract? (20:57)
Why you should workout to love yourself, not because you hate your body. (22:43)
How did he meet Sri Chinmoy and what was it like following his practices? (26:28)
The importance of finding joy through the exertion. (31:30)
Who made the biggest impact on him that he has met so far? (34:54)
How did he figure out his passion for film making? (37:52)
What is the purpose of abstaining from meat if we evolved to run down our food? (41:10)
How your diet is highly based on your genetics. (47:03)
The major similarities between the 3100 race and the 1000 day race in Japan. (50:12)
What are the commonalities that he finds with the people who do these feats of endurance? (53:08)
How does he feel about the growing anti-religious movement? (56:45)
Amazing stories from the Transcendent Race. (59:28)
The difficult factors of eating, drinking and sleeping during the course of the 3100. Why if you don’t have the mindset, no amount of nutrition will help. (1:01:22)
Does he still do races himself? (1:08:13)
What is his current relationship with his parents and have they come full circle with his current path? (1:11:40)
How everyone has their own path and the most important thing is finding it. (1:14:40)
How did he find Mind Pump, what drew him to them and what has kept him around? (1:16:45)

Featured Guest/People Mentioned:

Sanjay Rawal (@mrsanjayr) Instagram
3100: Run And Become, the Film (@3100film) Instagram
Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) Twitter
Frank Zane (@officialfrankzane) Instagram
Bill Pearl
Rich Roll (@richroll) Instagram
Joe De Sena (@realJoeDeSena) Twitter
Bishop Robert Barron (@bishopbarron) Instagram
Patti Catalano Dillon

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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	God, one of my favorite things about what we do is being completely shocked and blown away.
0:19.0	Yeah.
0:20.0	By meeting somebody that I had completely different ideas on in terms of what I thought the interview would go, for example.
0:27.0	What a great interview.
0:28.0	I mean, Sanjay Rawal, you're about to listen to us talk to him.
0:31.0	You know, he's a documentary filmmaker.
0:34.0	He's done, you know, directed food chains, challenging possibility.
0:38.0	And the most recent one, the reason why we have him on the show, he directed a film called 3,100 Run and Become, which is about this insane, long distance race where people literally run around a half city block in New York City for 3,100 miles over the course of I think 50 days.
0:57.0	And so we thought we're going to talk all about just kind of endurance running and whatnot.
1:02.0	We did some of that, but boy, did this episode really surprise us.
1:06.0	I mean, the history of this guy, he was a follower of Sree Chinmoyne.
1:09.0	If you don't know who he is, it was a spiritual leader who, you know, I think he was almost got the Nobel Peace Prize at one point.
1:17.0	And through following this, this leader, he met Mother Teresa, Bill Pearl, Frank Zane, Pope John Paul, Desmond Tutu.
1:25.0	I mean, you name it.
1:27.0	And the teachings that Sree Chinmoyne taught him had a lot to do with spirituality, but also how it's combined with physical exertion and how the physicality of athleticism.
1:41.0	There's a strong spiritual component, which totally resonated with us.
1:45.0	I mean, you know, when I lift weights and work out and I've been doing it for so long, I definitely understand what he's talking about when he brings that up.
1:53.0	And so there was a lot of really great information and just inspiring information.
1:58.0	I was just inspiring.
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