Improve Your Daily Discipline with Todd Durkin / DEKA
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the DEKA series here on the SpartanUp podcast. Professional trainer Todd Durkin talks about that all important moment when you don't 'feel' like doing what needs to be done, and how to persevere.
About Todd - Todd Durkin is an internationally recognized strength, speed and conditioning coach, body-worker, author and motivational speaker. He is the founder of Fitness Quest 10 in San Diego, CA, an award-winning health and human performance facility where he works with a high-profile clientele of elite professional athletes including NFL MVPs, Super Bowl Champions and MVPs, Heisman Trophy Winners, Olympic and X-Game Gold Medalists and World Series Champions. Fitness Quest 10 has been named one of "America's 10 Best Gyms" by Men's Health 7 times, while Durkin's work there has earned him the industry's highest honors including being named Personal Trainer of the Year by both IDEA and ACE, a four-time Top 100 Most Influential Person in Health & Fitness, the 2017 Jack LaLanne Award winner, and 2018 International Presenter of the Year from Canfitpro representing legacy and impact in the fitness industry.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't do what I feel like doing most of the times and that's where the discipline comes in. |
| 0:04.0 | If I was dictated by how I felt all the time, I'd be in trouble because I'd be doing things that aren't |
| 0:08.8 | going to lead me to where I want to go. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to the Spartan Deca Series on Spartan Up, with Jared |
| 0:14.2 | Cogwell, Director of Sport, and Nancy Cope, Director of Programming. |
| 0:18.0 | What's up Spartans? |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the Deca series on the Spartan Up Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm the director of sport and education, |
| 0:26.0 | Jared Kogswell, along with my brother, |
| 0:29.0 | the director of programming, Yancey Cole. |
| 0:32.0 | And today, we have a very, very factor of programming, Yancey Kolt. |
| 0:32.6 | And today we have a very, very special guest. |
| 0:36.4 | With us today, we have somebody that's been lighting |
| 0:40.1 | people up for years now including professional athletes of all I mean at the highest |
| 0:46.7 | level. |
| 0:47.7 | Not Durkan! |
| 0:50.8 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Lumen metabolism tracker. |
| 0:54.0 | The first device to track your metabolism and provide daily personalized nutrition plans for peak performance. |
| 1:00.0 | Visit lumen. M.E to order and use the code Spartan 50 for $50 off. |
| 1:05.7 | You work with all levels of fitness, all levels of humanity for that matter. |
| 1:10.5 | You go in, you speak to corporate groups. I mean you are really one of the most |
| 1:15.4 | authentic speakers I've ever seen and witnessed. And you know, I think to the people that you know your athletes you know whether the high school kids or the the pro athletes I think about somebody like Drew Breeze you know like Drew Breeze to me is like he's got that mind right and but I also know that he leans in on you. How do you transfer that type, you know, some of your best practices to somebody at that level? |
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