How Joe Decker Found the Fountain of Youth / ENDURANCE

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Fitness is the fountain of youth! Joe Decker - former Guinness World’s Fittest Man and Death Race legend - talks with Spartan Up Endurance series host Johnny Waite about how to accomplish your fitness goals when you're 50 or older.

In this episode you’ll learn:

How to approach training when you’re out of your prime
How to pivot your training. If you are beat-up from a life of running, try paddling or climbing.
Don’t be afraid to be a beginner again. Pivoting to a new form of training takes humility and a beginner’s mindset. Don’t let fear of trying something new derail your fitness goals.
Do the work. Nothing changes here.
The roles of rest, stretching and mobility in injury prevention for the 50+ endurance athlete

Background on Joe Decker: Joe Decker is recognized as “The Worlds Fittest Man,” an ultra-endurance power athlete, renowned fitness trainer, and syndicated columnist who has helped thousands of women, men, kids and seniors get into shape and lose weight.

This outdoor workout format that Joe created is the same that he used to break the Guinness World Records® 24-Hour Physical Fitness Challenge in 2000. It works like no other program out there, getting people into the best shape of their lives.

Joe believes in leading by example and is a personal testament to overcoming addictions and obstacles. Once overweight and out of shape, Joe transformed his body and his life through an amazing journey from fat to fittest.

Joe has appeared on The Today Show, Discovery Health, The Early Show, The O’Reilly Factor, and Fox News and has been featured in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, Men’s Fitness, Muscle and Fitness, Men’s Health, and GQ. To his surprise, People Magazine named him one of America’s 50 Most Eligible Bachelors in 2001.

Learn more about Joe:

-Website: GutCheckFitness.Com

-Instagram: @gutcheckfitness

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CREDITS:

Producer: Ryan Warner

Hosts: Johnny Waite

Sr Producer: Marion Abrams

Transcript

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0:00.0	Health fitness exercise being active is truly the fountain of youth. It's not supplements it's not drugs. It's not any kind of
0:08.5	Bull crap they're gonna sell you in a pill box or in a boxer online. I mean it's getting outside and join your body
0:16.4	welcome to the Spartan endurance series on Spartan up podcast with host Johnny
0:21.4	Wait hey Spartans I'm Johnny Waite one of the hosts of the Spartan Up Podcast.
0:25.0	Welcome to this special endurance episode.
0:27.0	We're rejoined by Joe Decker.
0:29.0	He was so fantastic last week talking about goal setting.
0:32.0	We brought him back to talk to you specifically about what it means to be an older endurance athlete.
0:36.0	Let's say you're my age. I'm 52 and you still have some big goal, some things you want to go after.
0:40.0	Joe just turned 50, he has some big goal still. And he tells us how you
0:44.4	approach things a little bit differently as you get older, but still get it
0:47.3	done. This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Inside Tracker, the
0:51.2	ultra personalized nutrition and wellness platform that analyzes data from
0:55.8	your blood. Go to inside Tracker.com and save 33% with the code Spartan Up.
1:02.0	We're back with Joe Decker. Joe was the 2000 Guinness, fittest man in the world.
1:07.5	Still pretty darn close 20 years later. And that's what I want to talk about today.
1:11.5	We talked last time about goal setting
1:13.4	and the idea about, you know,
1:14.6	that there's always a way to go out
1:15.6	and break something down and make it achievable.
1:18.6	But I want to talk to you about something very close to my heart.
1:22.3	I'm 52, and I still have some big goals and things we want to get after
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