Brent Fikowski's Secret Advantage
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Brute Strength Podcast, we welcome back Brent Fikowski for the second time.
Brent is one of the most consistent and successful CrossFit athletes to date, finishing 4th, 2nd and 4th in his previous Games appearances.
In this week's episode, we’ll be diving into the more technical side of training. Brent will share some of the tactics he uses when preparing for competition, how he approaches training, and some killer habits that give him an edge over competitors. Whether you’re trying to compete at the highest level or become the best version of yourself, this episode has something for you.
If you haven’t checked out his first episode, be sure to give it a listen, we talk about his origin story and how he became the athlete he is today.
Topics:
06:30 - Qualifying for The Games in Asia
17:25 - Granite Games
35:20 - Mindset
43:30 - Simplicity and essentialism
52:20 - Killer habits
1:05:40 - Urgent/ important matrix
Links:
Books:
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
Essentialism - Greg McKeown
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, |
| 0:18.0 | Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey, before we get this show started, let me quickly tell you about a program that we just launched called Outside the Box. When we first started Brute, we simply serve people that wanted to train for and compete |
| 0:35.9 | at the Cross Fit Regional's and games. Pretty quickly, we transitioned to also working with people that |
| 0:42.0 | wanted to compete in the open, people that just |
| 0:44.6 | wanted to look better naked, people that wanted to compete in weightlifting, as well as a host |
| 0:49.7 | of other goals. About a year and a half we started hearing more and more from members and |
| 0:55.4 | former members that their priorities were shifting, that their goals were shifting. |
| 1:01.2 | They wanted to focus more on their relationships, on their careers, on new hobbies, and they didn't have the same desire, |
| 1:08.0 | they didn't have the time or the means to train for an hour or two or three or four, like they did when they first signed up with us. |
| 1:15.6 | So we created this program with them in mind. Outside the box is a 30 minute a day program for five days a week and it requires minimal equipment. |
| 1:26.0 | There are three different tiers. |
| 1:28.0 | The first tier requires only a set of dumbbells and each higher level requires more and more equipment. |
| 1:35.0 | So whatever you have, we've got something for you. |
| 1:38.0 | At Brute, we really pride ourselves in bringing together experts in every area of the sport of fitness. |
| 1:47.0 | And so when we were thinking about creating this program, we realized that we didn't have anyone |
| 1:52.1 | that was an expert in general physical |
| 1:54.2 | preparedness so we had to go out and find that person. That's when we decided to |
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