Jimmy Choi on Overcoming Obstacles

The Mark Divine Show

Mark Divine

Self-improvement, Alternative Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jimmy Choi was diagnosed with Parkinson's when he was 27. And now, at 41, he has run 13 marathons, 88 half marathons and countless other races. Most people know him as he competed in American Ninja Warriors and also part of Team Fox raising $250,000 for the Michael J Fox Foundation. Mark talks to him today at the Spartan Race in Lake Tahoe about training, diet and mindset. He's an inspiration to us all by living his life with a positive mindset, dedication to helpi...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You can't. You know for me it's do better than yesterday and that's my mantra is to continue to push those boundaries.
0:25.0	Hey folks, welcome back to the Unbeady mind podcast.
0:31.0	My name is Mark Devine.
0:32.7	Superstoke to have you here.
0:34.2	My guest today is Jimmy Choi.
0:36.7	I'm going to introduce Jimmy a little bit more in a bit.
0:39.8	We are up in Lake Tahoe.
0:42.1	A beautiful area, huh? This's stunning. Like I think this place is amazing.
0:46.0	My first time here and coming from the city of flatness in Chicago. You have Chicago.
0:51.2	Yeah, this is amazing.
0:53.0	Yeah, and you're here all weekend.
0:54.0	You're going to be racing on Sunday with this Spartan.
0:57.1	It's the world championship.
0:58.1	We're meeting all sorts of cool people.
1:00.4	All right, and I'm cranking away in the burpies, up to 80,000 on our way to 100,000.
1:05.3	If you want to support me and my team, Burpies for Vets.com, we're trying to raise money
1:10.2	and awareness for Vets suffering from post--traumatic stress and my tribe and I are
1:14.1	doing 22 million burpees this year and we're gonna do it. I think we're at a blood million
1:19.5	is. Amazing. Isn't that call?
1:23.0	Amazing.
1:24.0	Yeah. This totally changed my year.
1:26.0	Every day I have to get up and crank out those three hundred burbies.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mark Divine, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mark Divine and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.