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Ones Ready

Ep 284: Water Con w/ MMA Fighter/Deep End Fitness guru Maki Pitolo

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the team room! Are you ready to dig deep into the psychology of water confidence and training with a true professional? Well, buckle up for this weeks riveting episode of the Ones Ready podcast. In this episode, Maki Pitolo, a professional MMA fighter and co-founder of Deep End Fitness, shares his journey into MMA and the importance of breath control and mindset in his training. He discusses the transition from football to MMA and the mentors who inspir...

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0:00.0

Hey everybody welcome back to the ones ready podcast you're in the team room and we have

0:11.5

Aaron and I but then we also have

0:13.7

Machi Pitolo appreciate you joining us.

0:16.4

Thank you guys appreciate it. Absolutely. So you've kind of got your hands and a lot of different things.

0:24.0

One, you're running deep in fitness out in Las Vegas.

0:28.0

So part of Prime and all those guys out there teaching breathing underwater

0:34.8

uh... underwater torpedo league underwater just full up training and then

0:39.7

you're in your spare time you're also a professional in the

0:43.0

mam a fighter. I don't know how you have the time.

0:45.1

Man, uh, it just finding the balance I would say finding the

0:49.7

sweet spot. Well, yeah, man, well let's start at the beginning. I see you're outside in the beautiful Las Vegas. We had rain, some rain either early this morning or last night. So you're out there enjoying that nice weather.

1:03.1

But let's dive in on, like, well,

1:07.7

let's start with MMA first,

1:09.4

and then we'll go into the deep in fitness stuff.

1:11.7

But did you always want to be a professional fighter?

1:14.8

Or how'd you find your way into that?

1:17.2

Yeah, absolutely.

1:17.8

I, um, well, first off, I started doing MMA just to get in shape for the football season and I started my journey in high school.

1:26.4

My background is kickboxing and that's where it all started.

1:28.9

I did kickball to stay in shape, lose weight and kind kind of, you're in your teen, so you're actually getting in shape to impress everybody,

1:37.1

impress the crowd, impress my friends at that time, and really, really quickly, I found the NAPF really quickly I found the Napford and I found that I liked I liked

1:46.6

the competition side of it and it humbled me to to be able to keep casing the

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