How Stubborn Do You Have to Be to Win? Joe De Sena & Alex Kopacz

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Alexander Kopacz won Olympic gold in the two-man bobsled in 2018. Was it grit, determination, stubbornness, or an inability to face losing? He joins Spartan Race founder and CEO Joe De Sena on the Spartan Up podcast to talk about the physical and mental challenges of competing at that level and what you can learn from his experiences.

Thank you to our friend Jason Nacey from USANA for introducing us to Alex.

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This episode of Power Up! is brought to you by Honey Stinger. Made with organic honey and delicious ingredients, use code SpartanAthlete30 at Honeystinger.com for 30% off to help you sweeten the burn.

CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion.com

Host: Joe De Sena

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's your tolerance for failure?
0:02.2	I mean, yes, it's mindset, but how much of it is a mental illness?
0:05.4	As far as like the obsessive nature of not wanting to fail,
0:10.0	let's call it stubbornness in general.
0:11.6	There has to be some amount of stubbornness to force you to keep getting back up.
0:15.6	Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe Descenta, founder and CEO of Spartan Race.
0:24.8	We are talking about overcoming obstacles.
0:29.6	The same way we teach people to get over obstacles
0:32.0	on the course, we will teach you get over obstacles on the course.
0:32.8	We will teach you here on the Spartan Up Podcast to get over obstacles in your mind.
0:37.5	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Honeystinger, made with organic honey and delicious ingredients.
0:42.8	Use the code Spartan Athlete 30 at honeystinger.com
0:46.3	for 30% off to help you sweeten the burn.
0:49.7	Joe Descenta, CEO and founder of Spartan and the Spartan Up podcast. I've got Alex Co-Patch on.
0:57.6	He is an Olympic gold medalist downhill. It's got to be downhill if it's a bobsled or right you can't you don't bobsled uphill
1:05.3	that's right and and and you're a newly minted entrepreneur
1:09.8	congratulations welcome to the show thanks so Thanks for having me on Joe.
1:13.0	What can we learn from Bob sledding?
1:15.0	There's a lot of people out there that watch Bob sledding and they're like, that doesn't look
1:18.3	that hard.
1:19.3	I mean, you just jump in the damn sled and it takes you to the bottom.
1:22.2	Is that true?
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