Ben Alderman on CrossFit, Jiu-Jitsu, Fatherhood & Faith
Mark Bell's Power Project
Power Project Studios
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Ben Alderman, owner of CrossFit Iron Mile and pastor at Restlife Church, joins Mark Bell for a wide-ranging conversation on training, jiu-jitsu, leadership, family, and faith.Ben breaks down why being strong in the gym doesn’t automatically translate to fighting or grappling, what jiu-jitsu taught him about efficiency, leverage, and humility, and why CrossFit is still one of the best ways to build broad, real-world fitness. They also talk about movement variability, conditioning, striking, adapting as you age, and why “leaders are learners.”The conversation also goes deeper into fatherhood, raising kids around fitness, letting your children pursue their own calling, and Ben’s personal story of faith, repentance, and wanting to be a better husband, father, and man of God.Special perks for our listeners below!🥩 HIGH QUALITY PROTEIN! 🍖 ➢ https://goodlifeproteins.com/ Code POWER to save 20% off site wide, or code POWERPROJECT to save an additional 5% off your Build a Box Subscription!🩸 Get your BLOODWORK/TRT/PEPTIDES! 🩸 ➢ https://marekhealth.com and use code "POWERPROJECT" for 10% off Self-Service Labs and Guided Optimization®.🧠 Methylene Blue: Better Focus, Sleep and Mood 🧠 Use Code POWER10 for 10% off!➢https://troscriptions.com?utm_source=affiliate&ut-m_medium=podcast&ut-m_campaign=MarkBel-I_podcastBest 5 Finger Barefoot Shoes! 👟 ➢ https://Peluva.com/PowerProject Code POWERPROJECT15 to save 15% off Peluva Shoes!Self Explanatory 🍆 ➢ Enlarging Pumps (This really works): https://bit.ly/powerproject1Pumps explained: https://youtu.be/qPG9JXjlhpM?si=JZN09-FakTjoJuaW🚨 The Best Red Light Therapy Devices and Blue Blocking Glasses On The Market! 😎➢https://emr-tek.com/Use code: POWERPROJECT to save 20% off your order!👟 BEST LOOKING AND FUNCTIONING BAREFOOT SHOES 🦶➢https://vivobarefoot.com/powerproject🥶 The Best Cold Plunge Money Can Buy 🥶 ➢ https://thecoldplunge.com/ Code POWERPROJECT to save $150!!
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| 0:00.0 | aspects of fitness get boring. To be perfectly honest, very boring, especially when you're just |
| 0:04.1 | going in and doing the same things over and over with the goal of just getting stronger or getting a better time. If you want to be good at a lot of things, I don't think there's really anything out there that's better than CrossFit. If you don't wrestle, if you don't fight, and you think you're in good shape and then you fight somebody for a minute, that minute feels like 10 minutes. It's good to with your jitsu figure out how to use |
| 0:22.6 | enough strength or enough force to solve a problem, but not excessive amounts of it to bulldoze through it. |
| 0:30.4 | I wanted to be a dad. I wanted to be a husband. And I wanted to walk with God faithfully. They kind of |
| 0:35.5 | bifurcated my life. And I fed this one over here and then I did |
| 0:38.2 | this over here and convinced myself that those two people could coexist. Fitness, my faith, |
| 0:44.2 | family. Like those are things that are truly integrated to what I do. Do what you love. Do what you're |
| 0:49.0 | passionate about. Do what you feel like God's calling you to do. So, okay, so an MRI, how many times you had one? Just once. Just once. What was it? My elbow and I had to have my arm in there like this. I just did that one forever. I just did that one. I almost freaked out. Yeah. I mean, I was border. I was freaking out. I was in there for like 45 minutes. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah. Because you got moving or? And my, it's just the technology when you had it done. I don't know. They just, yeah, they just, they kind of claim they didn't get the imaging that they needed. But I was like, I wasn't, I felt like I wasn't moving. But my, um, my arm started to fall asleep. and I'm like if my arm fall asleep then I can't push a button |
| 1:26.5 | then they can't get me out of here |
| 1:28.0 | it's kind of where I started thinking you know so I was like |
| 1:29.7 | yeah yeah did you push it in there for my arm started to fall asleep and I'm like if my arm falls asleep then I can't push the button then they can't get me out of here. It's kind of what I started thinking you know so I was like |
| 1:29.7 | yeah yeah did you push it in there for 30 minutes did you actually push the button yeah I did that the |
| 1:35.2 | first the most the time before this because I've had three MRIs once on my shoulder once on my neck |
| 1:40.9 | and then once on my elbow which was this one I had last Friday. |
| 1:45.5 | And the last time I had to push the button. |
| 1:48.0 | And when they immediately started pulling me out |
| 1:50.5 | because I pushed the button, |
| 1:52.0 | it allowed me have the confidence to go back in. |
| 1:54.5 | And so this time when I went in, |
| 1:57.5 | I almost felt like just pushing the button |
| 2:00.0 | to test the chick who was working |
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