Burpees and Botany: Spartan World Championship Exclusive
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Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Live from a hotel room in Lake Tahoe at the 2017 Spartan World Championship race, Brock Armstrong interviews three of the personalities behind the SpartanUp podcast. Sefra Alexandra (www.seedhuntress.com), Johnny Waite, and producer Marion Abrams. The conversation takes some surprisingly philosophical turns including enthobotany, dealing well with low points in your life and burpees as an analogy for life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, what's up, it's Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:03.7 | Hey, I have a pretty special series, a doozy full series of interviews for you. |
| 0:08.8 | Coming up today and on a whole bunch of other days this week, I'm churning out the |
| 0:12.9 | podcast this week because I just got back from like, Tahoe. |
| 0:16.2 | I got a chance to hang out with some of the world's top athletes and biohackers and inventors |
| 0:20.2 | and physicians and more down at the Spartan world championships. |
| 0:24.5 | Even if you're not an obstacle course racer, you're gonna dig today's show. |
| 0:28.0 | We can access the show notes where I have a special video for you over at BenGreenfieldFitness.com |
| 0:32.8 | slash Sparta17. |
| 0:34.8 | Yes, as in Sparta17, like the movie 300 where they all talk with Scottish accents, even |
| 0:42.1 | though they're supposedly from Greece. |
| 0:44.0 | Anyways, though, we digress. |
| 0:45.7 | So in that video that I posted for you at BenGreenfieldFitness.com slash Sparta17, I actually have a |
| 0:54.5 | fascinating discussion. |
| 0:55.5 | This is at the top of the page that you see there about legal ways to dope your blood, |
| 1:00.8 | legal ways to get nitric oxide up like Viagra for your whole body without actually taking |
| 1:04.7 | the little blue pill. |
| 1:05.8 | I had a max your ATP and what I called your erythrocyte levels using some pretty fringe formulas |
| 1:11.8 | that are out there. |
| 1:12.8 | So when you visit that page over at BenGreenfieldFitness.com slash Sparta17, you're gonna want to |
| 1:17.1 | watch my interview there at the top of the page of the skin name Craig Dinkorl. |
| 1:21.3 | Craig, you may have heard on previous podcast episodes. |
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