How To Hack Fear
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2017
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
More dangerous than your opponent is your mind. If it doesn’t support you, you’re beaten before you’ve started. There are really only two types of fear: biological and psychological. -Tony Blauer
When does fear come up-
That moment you step up to a heavy barbell…
When you are getting hit on by someone attractive at a bar…
When you are speaking up to a new group of people…
snakes… spiders…
Fear is always driving us. Our awareness of it is more important than thinking we can ignore it or make it go away.
Tony Blauer has dedicated his life to knowing fear, and learning/teaching others how to manage it. He works with fighters, military units, CrossFitters, and everyone in between. We brought Tony on the show to talk about fear and how we can understand and manage it as athletes. As humans, the fear is build into the programming …the macho “I’m not scared” mentality is as much a lie as it a shitty strategy. Fear is biologically built into us, and ignoring it is impossible. However understanding it, and reacting quickly and appropriately to it is what leads to success in your endevours ....and getting out of bad situations.
We cover the psychology of fear, chat about street fights, and dive into functional movement and personal defense.
Tony runs a section of CrossFit education called CrossFit Spear. It isa full depth course going into the practice of self defense. You can learn more about it at CrossFit.com
enjoy!
Mike
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| 0:00.0 | The best is the metaphor for fear that there are things in life that you need to wear, |
| 0:05.2 | but you need to wear your fear properly. You need to understand it and be comfortable with it. |
| 0:09.3 | So you need to face it, you need to understand it, research it, then you got to confront it. |
| 0:12.6 | It's going to be there, but if you decide it, I'm going to do this fight. I'm going to ask this |
| 0:17.2 | person to marry me. I'm going to quit my shitty job and open up a fitness facility, a box or |
| 0:22.8 | become an actor, whatever you're doing, it's fear that holds people back. |
| 0:52.9 | We're going to Barbel Strogg, I'm Mike Bluto and I'm here with Doug Larson. We are hanging out with |
| 1:02.8 | Tony Blower. He is the founder of the Spear System. CrossFit Spirit used to be the CrossFit |
| 1:09.9 | combative. CrossFit Defense. CrossFit Defense and now it's CrossFit Spirit. So you've been hanging |
| 1:15.6 | out with Greg Lassman for a while, teaching people in CrossFit Gems and running certifications for |
| 1:20.9 | seminars on how to have self-defense in your life, work with everyone from soccer moms to UFC |
| 1:29.2 | fighters, to Navy SEALs, the entire spectrum. You basically have built your entire life around |
| 1:36.8 | self-defense and we now have fuck fear. Oh my God, I didn't even realize that, that's so weird. |
| 1:45.6 | All my shirts lay this. It sounds like you have a lifetime of teaching self-defense, |
| 1:53.1 | doing combative type training and I think what we started talking about before the show was |
| 1:59.1 | you're really getting into this psychology side because there's no way you can live in that |
| 2:02.5 | world for that long without having to start to peel that back because usually that's what's |
| 2:07.3 | keeping someone, you know, you can learn all the moves in the world but if you freeze up in that |
| 2:13.7 | moment then you kind of screw it. Yeah well listen we're in an amazing environment here where, |
| 2:19.4 | you know, as a coach and experienced athlete you can tell when somebody's afraid of a box jump, |
| 2:25.3 | right, the way they stand in front of it, hesitate and stutter. And you know very often when you |
| 2:31.1 | grab the bar, whether you're going to make the lift or not, right before it, if you peel that |
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