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Nervous Rex

E24 24. Tareq Azim: The Athlete Whisperer

Nervous Rex

Kast Media

Arts, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8921 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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I ran into Tareq Azim recently at navy seal Kaj Larsen's gym in LA and he made such a strong impression on me that I had to have him on the pod immediately. His story is worth listening to, please believe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up guys you're listening to Nervous Rex and I'm here with Tark Azim and what exactly would be your title?

0:07.0

Are you a you're more than just a trainer. I feel like you have a sort of a little cult following happening.

0:13.8

What's the...

0:14.8

I'd just say a really hungry individual who understands how to utilize the efficacy of

0:18.6

sport and physical activity to hone in on key mental and emotional deficiencies.

0:23.4

So you train a group, you just tell me you train like a group of individuals from the NFL,

0:29.2

you also train MMA fighters.

0:31.4

Yeah.

0:32.4

So what, so you're more than just a trainer. I feel like from what I read in the

0:37.1

ESPN thing it's almost like you sort of have a spiritual like leader vibe or something that people look to you.

0:42.9

I remember Brian Callan was just sitting right here with me the other day and

0:45.8

praising you and he was just saying how, I don't know if you heard him on the podcast,

0:48.8

he was just saying how he just fucking loves you.

0:51.5

I mean, he's just like, yeah, yeah, he's, and he he's the best and he was just saying how much of a solid guy you are and everything you're doing so special and then so I just I mean we had met 12 years ago. I guess he said when you came to my show in Vegas with

1:03.2

Mickey Avalon and Henner right yeah yeah so now here we are 12 years

1:11.0

later wherever the fuck that was it was probably 12 years ago and now

1:14.8

you're obviously were you training with Henry at the time well yeah yeah so I

1:19.2

did all my white belt on through there oh you were white belt then when I met you? No when I started

1:25.0

at the Academy from White Belt on and then moves on, moved on, moved on, been training forever.

1:29.6

Obviously got my black belt. So you know, with Henner? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I got my black belt so you know and with Henner yeah yeah and then I got my

1:33.8

black belt actually from from Jake Shields oh yeah that's right that's right yeah that's what I

1:37.6

heard yeah so I was because I was living in LA up and tell my brown belt well he's a

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