Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Prospect Games Champ, Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

What's up? Welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

This week's guest is Hunter McIntyre. Hunter is arguably the best obstacle course racer on the planet and he is the Floyd Mayweather,

scratch that, he is the Connor McGregor of the obstacle course industry.

He loves to shit talk, and we start to show off

by talking about our favorite shit talkers in sports.

As I started to prepare for this show, it became very apparent to me that Hunter is just a bad-ass human being and if you've been listening to

this show long enough I don't I don't really ever say that I talk highly of people

but it is definitely a testament to who he is he is living life to the fullest he is challenging himself in every way possible and

I got a ton out of listening to this kid.

I say kid he's a little bit older than me,

but you get what I'm saying.

We talk about why he puts the metals of his losses up in his room rather than all of his, I'm sorry, why he puts all of his failures up in his room rather than his metals.

Really interesting. We talk about how he went from rehab to

logger to male model to world champion in about a five year span and a lot of the big lessons that he learned along the way.

On the show we actually realized that we went to the same exact

wilderness therapy program at the same exact time and we're just part of

different groups so you'll hear some of that bromats go on. We talk about all the ways that he

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