Building good habits, principles and strength ft. Dan John - Ep. 111

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

With more than 30 years in both the teaching and coaching fields, Dan John has established his name as one of the most renown fitness experts. Beginning his lifting career in 1965 and transitioning to a coaching role in 1979 we hear from Dan how it is that he has created these time eluding principles that he both implemented in his own time as an athlete and to coaching others as well. We dive into topics such as the importance of becoming a slave to good habits, creating a process for success, building and protecting confidence, as well as his implementation of shark bites in his daily life. As always it was a pleasure to speak to Dan John, there are many pearls of wisdom in this episode that will not only be applicable to your training life but also to your everyday life. Enjoy the show.

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Topics of discussion:

[0:17] Dan’s Education and Principles

[2:45] Being a warrior

[6:43] Timeless Resources

[11:15] Becoming a slave to good habits

[16:30] Having a lifestyle not a program

[20:40] Creating a process for success

[22:23] Sports psychology experience

[25:25] Learning from failure

[29:26] The John Family mottos

[33:20] Building and protecting confidence

[38:40] Experience and its benefits

[43:18] Rapid Fire Questions

Links:

Dan John’s Wandering Weights

Books:

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Great Books by David Denby

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Mike Asyu, and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.
0:03.3	This week I'm back with legendary coach Dan John.
0:06.9	We talk philosophy, principles of strength and conditioning,
0:10.3	and building good habits.
0:11.7	Before we get started, I just wanted to let you know that registration for our program,
0:15.5	Brute Body, is open now until September 17th.
0:19.6	The program is broken down into four 90 day blocks specifically designed to get you stronger
0:26.8	and change your body composition so adding lean muscle mass burning fat it
0:32.3	comes with four different diet options, coaching, a community, a ton of different
0:39.0	resources to help you stay on track and stay consistent on the program.
0:43.4	So if you're interested, head to brute strength
0:46.3	training.com slash programs slash brute hyphen body.
0:50.9	That's brute strength training dot com slash programs slash brute hyphen body.
0:56.0	Enjoy the show.
0:57.0	Hey, this is Mike Kaseh,
1:02.0	and this is the brute strength podcast. Coach, thanks for having me back, man. I'm very
1:06.2	excited to be here. Well, yeah, thanks for being here. I'm sorry about the little mix-up this morning.
1:10.1	Not a problem at all. So I want to start out the last time we we met I had this sense that when you speak and this is going to sound like I'm kind of blowing smoke up your ass I'm sure but you
1:23.7	speak in it just sounds like truth it sounds like wisdom and it's you know I was
1:29.7	telling Nelson on the way over here a lot of what you say is going to be true in 100 years, 200 years, 300 years.
1:37.5	It's very simple concepts, principles.
1:40.7	Where does that, yeah, where does that come from? Is it something that you were taught by a mentor or you're reading or?
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