How Overcoming Your Fears Will Fine-Tune Your Training and Perfect Your Game with Tony Blauer - Ep. 122

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week I’m joined by Tony Blauer, founder and owner of Blauer Tactical and The Spear System. You may also know him from CrossFit Defense. He’s got nearly 40 years of experience teaching people self-defense and how to overcome fear. We’re talking specifically today about fear — what it is, how to get over it, and even how you can use fear to propel you forward in life. Tony shares several stories about the times and ways that he has overcome fear in his own life, and he’s got proven ideas for ways you can face your fears in your training and your competitions. Enjoy the show!

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Topics of discussion:

[:46] From Crossfit Defense coach to developing the KNOW Fear seminar.

[9:05] What does being super-charged by fear look like?

[15:33] The KNOW Fear Seminar offers a framework for moving through life, starting with will and indignation.

[18:54] What do you visualize when you’re feeling intimidated or fearful?

[21:10] Why you need to externalize your fear in order to overcome it.

[25:05] Using stress inoculation training to replicate events so your body can perform at peak performance.

[31:07] The process of traveling through the fear loop.

[39:36] Gaining the self-awareness that is required to face fear and overcome it.

[47:07] Feel like the first step is always the hardest? Start here.

[54:36] How fear can guide you toward the things that matter most.

[1:04:05] How Tony has walked through fear in his life — and what he’s learned from it.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Mike Kaju, and you're listening to the Brut Strength Podcast.
0:03.5	This week's guest is Tony Blower.
0:05.5	Tony is the founder and owner of Blower Tactical and the Spear System.
0:11.0	Many of you probably also know him from his work with what was formerly known as Cross Fit Defense or Cross Fit Spear.
0:19.0	Tony is a world-renowned expert with nearly 40 years of experience teaching people self-defense and how to overcome
0:26.2	fear. This entire show is about fear in general, what it is, how to get through it it and even how to use it to propel you
0:35.4	forward in life. Enjoy this show. Hey this is Mike Kaseh and you're listening to
0:39.7	the Brute Strength Podcast. I'm here with Tony Blower. Tony, thank you so much for
0:44.7	making some time for me today brother. I am excited to be on your show man.
0:48.6	I've been a fan for a long time man, you're the owner of Blower tactical and the Spear system and I think a lot of people in the
0:57.8	functional fitness community know you from your work with you know what was formerly known as crossfit defense or crossfit
1:04.8	spear a couple I think you said about a year ago you started this new seminar that you call no fear, K N O W fear, with that is specifically
1:18.8	geared toward the psychological component of fear, what specifically triggered you creating that program
1:26.1	rather than continuing to only teach the physical side of things?
1:32.1	Yeah, so it's interesting like when someone hears that you teach self-defense, you teach
1:37.2	combatas or you teach martial arts, they think of it as just the physical and maybe a touch
1:41.9	of the Zen fortune cookie spiritual.
1:45.0	I have always, so I've been coaching now 37 years, I have always been fascinated with mindset,
1:50.7	fear management, performance, adaptive courage, resiliency, and this journey of almost
1:58.2	four decades has led me down many paths to put together kind of reverse engineer a program and so quite
2:08.2	literally if somebody came to train in our sphere system whether we were doing like a weekend course, a one day course,
2:14.9	years of training. Everything we always did ran through three phases of self-awareness where we would talk about
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