How Alex Ferreira won ANOTHER GOLD at Xgames / with Joe De Sena
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
How do you go from being the worst kid on the team to a 2018 Olympic silver medalist and two time XGames Gold medalist? Freestyle skier Alex Ferreira tells Joe De Sena and Johnny Waite the secret: unfaltering dedication, relentless training, infinite repetitive practice and truly believing in yourself are the keys! Alex walks us through how his visualization process, it includes running every turn and every second of his runs 100’s of times through his mind before he even puts his skis on. Alex takes us right to the start of his Olympic run, drops in, and takes us on a mental journey of those glorious Olympic runs. Everyone in the room was on the edge of their seats, we felt as if we were peering through his own goggles. You’ll feel the snow on your own skin!
A truly humble, extraordinary and eloquent athlete, Alex believes that when you put in every single ounce of energy: love, heart, passion into what you’re doing and don’t leave a single thing on the table... that’s when you can sleep easy at night. Believe in what you are doing and Get It Done!
LESSONS
- Believe in what your doing
- Do the hard work and be positive
- Be humble and when it’s time to compete be ruthless
- Do right by yourself
- Visualize successful outcomes
- 100x repetition is key
- Your either ready or your not
- Don’t take anything to seriously or personally
- Enjoy every second
- Put EVERYTHING you’ve got into your goal
- Train as if you were an Olympian
- Believe in yourself until the end!
- You learn more from failure than success
- Once you start winning the politics go away
- Read as much as you can
LINKS
More information about USANA https://www.usana.com/
More about Alex https://alexferreiraski.com
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TIME STAMPS
0:00 Joe introduces gold medalist Alex Ferreira
1:50 Interview begins with Johnny and Alex
2:30 The journey to become a professional halfpipe skier
4:15 It’s all about hard work and your mentality
5:15 Being humble and being ruthless
6:15 Practicing: visualization and repetition 100’s of times
7:45 Perfecting multiple tricks over many years to win the contest
8:45 The moment at the gate when your either ready or not
10:20 Eating, sleeping, training: doing everything he can to prepare
11:11 Taking us step-by-step to the lead up to his Olympic run
13:00 Run one: everything comes down to this moment
14:45 Run two
15:55 Run three- flow state
16:40 Putting it ALL on the table
16:55 USANA.com break
18:15 Joe jumps into the interview
19:30 Learning more from failure than success
21:20 Once you start winning all the politics go away
23:00 Filling his intellectual capacity
25:00 Hot & cold therapy
26:30 Who you are is what you eat
28:55 Joe debriefs what he learned from Alex
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Joe De Sena, Dr. Johnny Waite and Sefra Alexandra
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Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | Spartan up podcast you're a grit and resiliency partner you know when you're feeling a little dull during the week |
| 0:06.8 | We come at you. We rip you off the couch we pull you out of bed. That's what we do check out this guy Alex Ferreira just won a second gold medal when we |
| 0:16.8 | sat down with him he only had one under his belt literally his dreams are |
| 0:21.9 | unfolding in front of us. |
| 0:24.0 | Normally we meet somebody super successful. |
| 0:26.7 | They're telling us about 10 years earlier, |
| 0:28.8 | how they did it. |
| 0:30.2 | It's happening right now with Alex. So was a real pleasure to sit down with him. |
| 0:35.2 | There's a moment where he describes from the beginning through his whole process on his skis earning the silver medal. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'll tell you there were 20 people in the room. |
| 0:50.0 | We were all leaning in and super pumped on his story and it really it really goes to show you what's required in achieving silver in anything you do in life in a relationship in business |
| 1:05.0 | in your job etc so I think there's a lot to learn stay tuned listen in by the way if you |
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| 1:30.8 | Go in, type in Podcast as the code, and guess what? It's on us for a year. That's our commitment to you. Hey Spartans this is a really special interview. I'm sitting here with Alex Ferreira. |
| 1:52.1 | Alex you I was going to introduce |
| 1:55.8 | you as just being on the national freestyle ski team and and then I realize I'm actually |
| 2:00.6 | sitting here with a world champion with an Olympic medalist. |
| 2:04.0 | Dude this is huge. Thank you, yeah. |
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