Alex Crockford | How to go after what you really want (even if it scares you!)
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Alex Crockford, the fitness coach, model, actor, athlete and founder of CrockFit who has amassed nearly half a million followers on Instagram and over a quarter of million subscribers on Youtube because of his easy-to-follow, results-driven fitness content.
Alex is often held up as the example of what fitness looks like, and while there’s no denying the peak physical condition he’s in, he’s a huge advocate of deconstructing what it takes and making fitness and health goals accessible for anyone, whatever their starting point may be.
For a lot of us, pursuing health goals is something for which there’s a lot of friction; time, energy, money, time, willpower and time again… And perhaps what Alex is so good at, is showing how to make that journey as smooth as possible. In our conversation, he’s going to share his biggest risks, the obstacles he’s had to overcome as well as the excuses he makes for himself, even though he tries his best not to…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Emma Gunn Show. |
| 0:10.0 | Life's defining moments don't always feel that great when they're happening. |
| 0:13.5 | In the moment they can feel challenging, uncomfortable, difficult, impossible even, but with |
| 0:18.4 | hindsight they can take on a different shape. |
| 0:21.3 | With the benefit of that 2020 perspective we can begin to see how the most difficult times |
| 0:25.8 | were a life lesson we didn't know we needed to learn. |
| 0:29.0 | Each week I asked my guest to share their biggest life learnings to date as we explore |
| 0:32.8 | those difficult, swampy, infuriating times and how they shaped them all from a comfortable |
| 0:38.0 | distance that's afforded them the time to take the positive out of what might have |
| 0:41.7 | seen nothing but negative at the time. |
| 0:43.8 | Because whether it's obstacles, challenges, risks, excuses, opportunities, successes, failures |
| 0:48.2 | or curveballs, they are the reason they are the person they are today, the person sitting |
| 0:52.3 | in front of me on this episode of the Emma Gunn Show. |
| 0:57.6 | Back in the early days when I realised a little bit of risk actually got me closer to |
| 1:03.8 | where I wanted to go and I realised it was essential to grow. |
| 1:10.2 | But I was able to have a really positive relationship with risk and I had this strong feeling |
| 1:16.9 | inside me. |
| 1:17.9 | You got to jump. |
| 1:18.9 | Now is a make it work scenario and most of my money was still coming from that one to one |
| 1:24.7 | personal training. |
| 1:25.8 | I sold a few crock fit programmes but I thought something special is happening here, let's |
| 1:31.6 | go for it. |
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