Ep 789: The Secret to Crushing Life’s Challenges
Power Athlete Radio
Power Athlete
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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John sits down with Arash Soofiani, Power Athlete’s resident Dragon Slayer, to talk about how Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu builds unstoppable resilience, mental toughness, and grit. From the grind of daily rolls to life-changing lessons learned on the mat, Arash shares how Jiu-Jitsu shapes a healthier, stronger, and more disciplined life.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every damn day. |
| 0:08.4 | Join former NFL Pro and Power Athlete founder John Wellborn as he dissects the greatest minds in strength, conditioning, and more. |
| 0:17.0 | So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've |
| 0:23.0 | come to the right place. Now with the warm up done, let the gains begin. Hey, welcome to another episode |
| 0:28.5 | of Power Athlete Radio. We're hopefully trying to finish up 2024 strong. So I brought on Mr. Arashafani |
| 0:36.4 | to come on and ask me one of the questions that I've |
| 0:38.5 | been getting hit with constantly that I feel that's permeating not only through the podcasting |
| 0:42.5 | world, but also through every doctor that's decided to now jump on the creatine bandwagon. |
| 0:46.8 | And it is a bandwagon because I've been on this fucking wagon for over 30 years. And it's |
| 0:52.5 | exciting now to see everybody catching up with what we already knew |
| 0:55.1 | because we've been so farkin far ahead of the curve it's nice to be on the side of the curve so |
| 0:59.7 | john my question to you are is lifting is lifting weights building muscle the key to longevity |
| 1:09.1 | um 100% of this. |
| 1:11.7 | There is 10 factors that I put together in preparation for this question |
| 1:15.9 | that lifting weights and building muscle are key to longevity |
| 1:18.3 | because they address several critical aspects |
| 1:23.0 | that indirectly and directly affect not only your health and long being |
| 1:26.9 | and how we live. |
| 1:28.1 | One of the ideas or one of the first points is what I call metabolic currency. |
| 1:33.3 | So muscles highly or insulin sensitive, fats extremely oxidative, and it burns calories even at rest. |
| 1:40.7 | So the metabolic flexibility piece that I did a long, long, deep dive into |
| 1:46.1 | and actually one of the talks I gave when we go work with the guys at DevGru, is the idea |
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