Luke Tyburski - Chasing Extreme Endurance Goals To Learn About Life Balance

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Host Brad Kearns welcomes former pro soccer player turned extreme endurance athlete turned mental training coach Luke Tyburski to talk about his remarkable journey in pursuit of the limits of human endurance performance and the profound ups and downs and life-altering lessons Luke has experienced along the way.

After playing soccer at a high level in Australia and the USA, Luke plunged headlong into ultraendurance, with his first-ever running race the epic Marathon des Sables--a legendary six-day slog through the sandy Sahara Desert covering 155 miles over six days. Luke also ran 40 miles from Mt Everest base camp into Nepal despite an intestinal ailment that prevented him from eating or drinking anything for four days prior. He created his own 12-day "Ultimate Triathlon"," swimming the Gibraltar Strait (Spain to Morocco) and pedaling and running along the Mediterranean for 2,000 kilometers total. Check out the Amazon Prime documentary "The Ultimate Triathlon." Alas, these extreme efforts (and the grueling PR and logistics efforts behind the scenes) destroyed Luke's physical health and exacerbated his clinical depression. This forced him to reckon with his purpose and recalibrate on a journey of healing. Today Luke is a mental training coach for aspiring peak performances. He coaches and lectures about how to push through perceived barriers with the force of mind, while at the same time maintaining a commitment to leading a healthy, balanced life. His autobiography is called Chasing Extreme.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome.
0:09.9	Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com.
0:22.3	Ladies and gentlemen, I am talking to an extreme athlete like maybe you've never heard about
0:28.4	before, and I'm so excited. It's Luke Tiberski from London by way of Australia,
0:34.5	and I want to find out about your glo-trotting journeys before we even get
0:38.4	into the competitions that you've done. So right now you're based in London, but you blew through
0:44.3	the North American continent too. So maybe we should start there with your athletic background
0:48.5	and how it kind of led to this incredible stuff that you're doing recently. Thanks for having me on today, Brad.
0:55.9	It's a pleasure to chat with you.
0:57.6	And I've been a follower of yours for many years, so I love all the stuff that you're
1:01.8	doing as well.
1:03.6	So my journey started in Australia, and I left there at the ripe odd age of, I think
1:08.1	it was 20 or just 21.
1:09.6	And I went over to America to pursue my
1:12.8	soccer career. And I went to college over there for a couple of years and then bounced
1:17.9	around in the lower level leagues in New Orleans, San Francisco, and also Orlando too.
1:28.1	So I got a good taste of the entire country, really.
1:33.8	So you had this total focus to be a soccer player when you were young,
1:39.6	made it all the way over here, played at the high level in college,
1:42.4	and then in these professional
1:44.1	leagues. But I guess at a certain point, it's going to wind down. It's hard to make a living,
1:49.5	I imagine, unless you're in the top leagues. So how old were you? And then where did you,
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