Josh Crosby & Joe De Sena | Voracious Rower
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
When winning isn’t enough, try working to improve the “MOD,” or Margin of the Day. That’s the margin by which you win. One of Joe De Sena’s favorite quotes: “will it make the boat go faster?” Josh Crosby, world champion rower and co-founder of BDY SQD, attacks life with a voracious appetite. Dedicated to constant improvement and pushing himself farther, his perseverance, persistence and passion led him to success as a rower, in adventure racing, and to be a pioneer in the realm of rowing in modern fitness. Don’t just win the day - win by a large margin!
LESSONS
Focus on a shared goal and give 100% It’s all about perseverance, persistence and passion
Always go back to the team
Margin Of the Day (MOD) - how much can you win by?
Make your personal scores the best they can be
Utilize your expertise and passion
Find a moment of pause to refocus
Find your direction Pursue that direction with ultimate voracity: Attack & commit
LINKS
BDY SQD https://gobodysquad.com/about-us/
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Sefra & Joe introduce this week’s interview (and Joe’s kids shake the van to wake Josh up!)
1:30 Interview begins in Josh’s beauty of a blue van: The Body Squad Mobile
3:25 Starting out as rower, coming from a long lineage of rowers
4:30 Being trained by a “quiet leader”
6:30 Moving the oar and training the body and mind
7:30 Everyone focusing on the same goal and giving 100%
8:45 Perseverance, persistence and passion
10:50 Setting the rhythm for the boat- getting to the junior World Championships
12:45 Getting recruited to Brown University
14:15 Margin of the Day (MOD) - how much you can win by 1
6:15 Making your personal scores the best they can be
17:15 Getting as fit as possible for the National Team
18:20 Shooting for the Olympics
20:30 Reevaluating and starting Indo-Row
22:25 Key Rowing Advisor to Orange Theory & starting Body Squad
23:25 Benefits of the Body Squad myofascial modality & infrared technologies
26:30 Attach & Commit
27:15 Sefra & Joe have a tête-à-tête about what they learned
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CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena & Sefra Alexandra Dr. Johnny Waite & Col. Nye were off rowing on the river Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty © 2019 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Spartan Up the Podcast. We are your hosts and grit and resilience and each week |
| 0:06.1 | we bring you the best possible minds we can so subscribe to YouTube and then you can follow along with us as we meet these extraordinary people. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Sethra Alexandra, this is the founder of Spartan Joe DeSena, |
| 0:18.0 | and this week we're sitting down with one of Joe's favorite people in his van, Josh Crosby. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, this guy is an animal. |
| 0:24.0 | I've gotten to know him over the past few years. |
| 0:26.0 | Got to the Olympic level of rowing at a very young age. |
| 0:30.0 | So he started to learn these very principles we've talked about for five plus years here and just embodies Spartan. |
| 0:37.0 | He drove his van to come see us at West Point during one of our races and I had all the kids wake up like at 5 a.m. with Colonel Nye and we attacked the van. |
| 0:47.0 | I mean we started shaking it, pounding on it. We scared the blank out of them. |
| 0:52.0 | And then we sat down and we did this interview. |
| 0:54.0 | Actually, we did a big workout first, and then we did the interview. |
| 0:57.0 | So it's a lot of fun. |
| 0:59.0 | I think there are tremendous takeaways, no matter if you're a mom, |
| 1:02.0 | if you're a marine, if you're building a business |
| 1:04.1 | this guy's got the goods so so stick with us listen to it take some notes and then at the |
| 1:11.2 | end we are gonna highlight the stuff that really |
| 1:13.9 | should punch you in the face for the rest of your life in a good way. Great way. |
| 1:18.9 | When I'm on the road this is my home my man cave my you know den of despair my surf mobile |
| 1:30.1 | the body squad mobile it's it gets a lot done out of breath hang on |
| 1:36.9 | That was a hell that was that work. Yeah, that was a shocker to the system after doing much |
| 1:42.1 | Swimming and running lately for this swim run I was |
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