Lessons from Pro Baseball / Brandon Guyer and Joe De Sena
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What can Spartans learn about high performance from professional baseball? Brandon Guyer spent seven years as a Major League Baseball outfielder, now he coaches athletes and he's trying his hand at Spartan Races. In the Spartan Up podcast interview, he tells Joe De Sena (founder and CEO of Spartan) how he got to that elite level and his advice for you.
Guyer spent seven years as an elite professional athlete. He's extremely competitive and driven, and when he decides to commit to something, he goes all-in. So when he decided to sign up for his Spartan race, he didn't do it to have fun or try something new. He did it to win.
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Host: Joe De Sena
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| 0:00.0 | Joe DeSena here, CEO and founder of Spartan Race, and the host of the Spartan Up Podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | I got Brendan Geier, MLB player, this guy is an animal, wait to hear his story, actually you could |
| 0:11.1 | read about his story, We've got this great article |
| 0:12.8 | we're going to put the link in. We're going to do something really unique for this podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | Brendan and I are going to carry our kettlebells. I've got the ancient kettlebell. |
| 0:20.9 | He's got his little monkey kettle bell we're going to |
| 0:23.9 | hold it during the entire podcast so really this could be a one minute long |
| 0:28.4 | podcast we don't know soon as the kettle bells go down, the podcast is over. Let's see what happens. |
| 0:36.5 | Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe Descenta, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:46.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, |
| 0:51.0 | we will teach you here on the Spartan Up Podcast to get over obstacles on the course. We will teach you here on a Spartan up |
| 0:53.5 | podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. What can professional baseball |
| 0:58.0 | teach us about high performance? Brandon Geyer spent seven years as a |
| 1:01.2 | Major League Baseball outfielder. |
| 1:02.8 | Today, he coaches athletes and he's trying his hand at Spartan races. |
| 1:06.7 | In this episode, he shares how he got to that elite level and his advice for you. |
| 1:11.1 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by FITA and 511 |
| 1:17.1 | tactical race dirty recover clean with FITA or FITA Zero Sugar. |
| 1:21.6 | Visit for the FITA.com now, |
| 1:23.9 | and sign up to win an amazing grand prize package |
| 1:26.3 | from FITAIN and Spartan, monthly Spartan prize packs, |
| 1:28.9 | and more. |
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