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 Cross-Tic Games Champ,

Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

What's up? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. This week I've got Patrick Vellner on the show.

Pat is a three-time Cross Fit Games athlete.

He placed third in 2016 and 17 and second this past year

in the 2017 season. He's one of the most consistent athletes in the

sports history and the reason I've been so excited to connect with him is that

he's one of the most calculated athletes and I get this sense that there's more going on upstairs

meaning he pays attention more to his mindset than most of if not all of the other athletes.

So I was really pumped to connect with and talk to him.

Obviously, we talk about his evolution

over the past three years,

going from kind of accidentally qualifying for the games and then placing third his first year.

He just completely came out of nowhere and it was a surprise to him as much as it was anyone

else. And we talk about how he went from that guy to him being

touted as going to beat Fraser this year and specifically what he changed to get there.

And we talk about the big, especially the big mental shifts that he's made along the way.

He talks about why Frazier has been so dominant over the past few years

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