Ben Fuqua: Top 10 American in Kona in Just 5 Days a Week - Triathlon Taren Podcast

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this interview Triathlon Taren and No Triathlon Kim speak with competitive age group triathlete Ben Fuqua from Team Every Man Jack. Ben started triathlon in 2010 and in his first several races he was anything but spectacular, clocking half-ironman finish times of 6:34 and full ironman times close to fourteen hours. Ben transformed his body and his triathlon racing ability dramatically in just several seasons and now has a personal best half-ironman finish time of 4:13 and was a top 10 American amateur in Kona in 2016. Ben is also a team member of the mens personal care product line Team Every Man Jack which is an awesome tri team featuring some of the fastest amateur triathletes in in the world who are also very accomplished in life.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up Trainiacs? Today's episode of the podcast is brought to you by our first ongoing sponsor, Health IQ.
0:06.5	Woohoo! That's Health IQ.
0:08.1	They are a life insurance company that offer active people like us Trainiacs as much as a 25% savings on life insurance, which really just makes too much sense, right?
0:18.4	Because with traditional life insurance, us healthy people are
0:21.0	basically subsidizing the cost of insurance for the unhealthy people in that life insurance plan.
0:27.8	And being a recovering investment advisor myself from a former life, that was actually legitimately
0:32.6	always something that kind of irked me. That ticked you off. It ticked me off. No more. I come home and I throw my suit on the ground and I hated it.
0:41.2	If you want to learn more, go to health IQ.com forward slash triathlon Taryn.
0:45.9	That's where they put all the triathlete specific info for health IQ.
0:50.6	And it'll let health IQ know how awesome us Trainiacs in this podcast are.
0:55.8	Today's guest is Ben Fuqua.
0:58.9	Fuqua.
0:59.6	Fuqua.
1:00.5	Yes, Ben is not our average guest.
1:03.3	He doesn't own a big fancy triathlon company.
1:05.3	He's not triathlon pro.
1:07.0	He is a member of Team Everyman Jack, the men's personal care product line.
1:12.3	And he is an awesome, awesome badass age group triathlete.
1:17.1	Now, Ben didn't necessarily start out that way.
1:20.5	He actually started out his first few races.
1:22.6	He did a 634 half iron man and a 14-hour iron man.
1:30.5	However, he shaved a lot of time off.
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