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You're listening to the Spartan Combat series here on the Spartan Up

podcast. My guest today is former Minnesota wrestling coach Mark Schwab.

Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to the Spartan Combat Podcast.

My name is Ryan Warner. I'm your host. My guest today is

former University of Minnesota wrestling coach Mark Schwab. Mark was a wrestling

great and a great wrestling coach, but now he's into sports psychology and that's the focus

of our conversation today and he talks a lot about how to compete with a healthy

mental climate and why that's important.

I think it's obvious why it's important, but the tactics that Mark shares as to how to get there

are what's relevant in this conversation.

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That's it folks.

This is Ryan Warner and let's give it up for Mark Schwab. All right, we're here with Mark Schwab. All right we're here with Mark Schwab. Mark welcome to the

podcast. Yeah, thanks for having me. Absolutely. Really excited to get into this one.

Just to kick things off, you were the sixth four-time state champ in Iowa history.

And what I found really interesting about the research I've done is you talk about when you were in high school you just had

this mindset and this inner drive where you were just completely obsessed with

it and you didn't feel a lot of pressure to compete

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