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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

How to Improve Workout Consistency / DEKA

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8874 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Spartan DEKAFIT series here on the SpartanUp podcast.  Our first guest is Chris Hinshaw, who is one of the top coaches in the world, a former professional triathlete and the founder of Aerobic Capacity.  In this episode we cover,

 

TIME STAMPS 

2:39 Taking ownership in your training

5:48 How to survive your first month of training

8:13 Why DEKAFIT serves the fitness generalist

10:33 Adding variety to your training

12:44 How to set attainable challenges in your workouts

16:29 Everyone isn't ultra competitive and how to set workout challenges appropriately

 

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CREDITS:

Producer: Ryan Warner

Hosts: Yancy Culp, Jarod Cogswell

Sr Producer: Marion Abrams

 

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0:00.0

If we're always telling people three two one go and we're putting a clock against them and and they're feeling this pressure of competing, we'll lose half the people.

0:11.2

Welcome to the Spartan Deca series here on the Spartan Up Podcast. I'm Jared Cogswell, the director of

0:17.0

sport, along with my co-host, director of programming, Coach Yancey Cole. This story is about passion, purpose, and possibly impacting a

0:25.7

hundred million lives through fitness and our mission with the Deca series is to

0:30.3

educate, motivate, and inspire all levels and genres of fitness.

0:35.4

Our guest today is Chris Henshaw.

0:38.2

Chris is the coach to over 30 Cross Fit Games champions,

0:42.8

the founder of aerobic capacity,

0:45.1

and former professional triathlete.

0:47.7

Our focus today is training with a purpose

0:50.4

and why it's so important for all levels of fitness to set goals and challenges to be the best

0:56.7

version of yourself. We'll see you again in two weeks, Spartans.

1:01.2

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1:13.0

Well, hey, Chris, today we're here to talk about training with a purpose and really that's that's the mantra of Decofit.

1:22.0

And we don't want to make this all about Deca Fit.

1:24.9

We want to make, you know, we want Deca Fit to be something not only for all levels of fitness,

1:29.2

but all genres of fitness. And you know, a lot of our affiliates are cross fit gems and a lot of

1:35.6

group training gems are also part of the the movement and but training with

1:41.2

the purpose is important to us and Joe talks a lot about the Spartan paradox where you've got something on the calendar and something that to aim for and everything that you do is purposeful and what I learned from you especially on

1:54.9

our trainer's corner talks you talked a lot about prioritizing workouts and

2:00.6

so forth and that's really stuck with me personally as a coach and so

2:05.2

training with a purpose what does that mean to you? So athletes need to take

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