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The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

How to Stay Hydrated, Focused and Nourished in 2021 with Joe De Sena / COMBAT

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7870 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When a decade of training wrestling, blindfolded, saves your life. That’s what Spartan CEO Joe De Sena and SpartanUp Combat Series host Ryan Warner talk about in today’s episode. The guys also cover Joe’s passion for combat sports, why Spartan Nutrition and Joe’s background in chosen suffering. In this episode you’ll learn…

  • How a dinner in NYC led Joe to fall in love with combat sports, specifically, wrestling
  • Joe’s journey from cleaning pools, to Cornell to Wall Street
  • Why Joe started racing ultra-distance races
  • A crazy week where Joe ran Badwater, the Vermont 100 and the Lake Placid Ironman
  • Spartan Nutrition and what you’ll get from each of the three tools: Hydration Tablets, Energy Capsules and the Spartan Tea
  • Why and when to take these supplements in 2021
  • How to cut weight (this is for our combat athletes and parents of combat athletes)

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0:00.0

And a lot of people say to me just what you just said, like,

0:02.5

did you wrestle? I say, no, I didn't, but I just fell in love with the sport.

0:05.6

And I think it's pretty rare to be as maniacal as I am towards this sport

0:10.0

and not being one of the dads that did wrestle.

0:12.6

You're listening to Spartan Combat on Spartan Up.

0:17.6

Learn from battle tested combat athletes.

0:20.6

With your host Ryan Warner.

0:23.7

Spartans!

0:25.0

Welcome back to the Combat Series.

0:27.2

Today we have someone you know well, Joe DeCenna.

0:30.0

He's going to talk about where his love for combat sports started and how the Spartan nutrition line is helping in the battle of weight loss that many combat athletes have to go through.

0:39.6

Check it out.

0:40.6

This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Headspace. You deserve to feel happier and Headspace is meditation made simple.

0:48.5

Go to Headspace.com slash Spartan for a free one month trial with access to headspace's full

0:55.2

library of meditations for every situation. You are the first person who has never

1:01.9

wrestled to be on the show, but what you're doing

1:04.3

for wrestling right now speaks volumes and we're going to get to that. Let's start at

1:08.6

the beginning though. Who is Anita Horacean and how did she impact your life by getting into Cornell?

1:14.3

Professor Anita Racine. First of all everybody out there should know I'm in a van

1:18.6

right now and it's running if you hear a little bit of the engine in the

1:21.3

background. I'm in the sprinter van that we used to

1:24.4

migrate the children around from wrestling practice to wrestling practice. And a lot of people say to me,

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