Mark Lauren: Best-Selling Author, Veteran, and Former Physical Trainer of Nearly a Thousand Elite Special Operations Warriors

Team Never Quit

Marcus Luttrell

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Team Never Quit Podcast, Marcus has an engaging conversation with Mark Lauren, who revolutionized the U.S. army's training systems, and trained hundreds of U.S. Special Forces operatives. Mark possesses astonishing physical prowess as a Military Physical Training Specialist, Special Operations Combat Controller, triathlete and mixed martial artist. He broke, and still holds, the Department of Defense s long-standing underwater record by swimming 133 meters, on one breath, subsurface, for 2 minutes and 23 seconds. He is also a bestselling fitness author.

Mark trained and competed all across Thailand in Muay Thai. His physical and mental development has inspired a new approach to fitness that has allowed millions of people to move better without the confines of a gym. Mark’s book, You Are Your Own Gym was published by Random House. His audience identifies with his minimalist approach to fitness, as well as his stories of overcoming failures.

In this episode you will hear:

I started working out when I was 12 with pushups and sit-ups next to my bed. I got to the point that I could do indefinite sit-ups.
Physical fitness is about fundamentals – it’s about basics.
Characteristics like respect and discipline are what parents need to teach.
Real character does not reveal itself when everything is great.
You only fail when you quit. When you fail, brush yourself off and do it again.
Whatever success I’ve had is built on repetitive failures.
When I got out of the military, I really missed the comradery and sense of purpose.
Exercise doesn’t necessarily relate to improved performance.
If your fundamentals are strong, it’s much easier to specialize.
You really need to be good at getting from point A to point B – Locomotion.
The first 3 things people need to do is to reestablish basic joint functions for the hips, spine, and shoulders.
There’s a difference between performance and exercise.
An important part of good exercise habits is to engrain good habits.
What you put your attention on, and controlling your breathing do a lot to influence your feelings.
General health and well-being depends on doing basic things really well.
One of the main things that keep people from really getting fit – is doing too much.
Start small and progress gradually.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The Team Never Quit podcast is sponsored by Navy Federal Credit Union.
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0:21.0	Alright everybody, welcome back to the TNG podcast. I'm your host Marcus Mattrell.
0:26.0	Every week it's my job to fire you up to ignite the legend inside of you and to push you to your greatness.
0:32.0	Join me every week and I take you into my Breaker room with some of the most hard charge on people on the planet.
0:37.0	They're going to show you how to embrace the stuff of life, teach you the values of working your ass off and charge through whatever life throws at you.
0:44.0	This is the Team Never Quit podcast.
0:47.0	Don't buckle up, buttercup.
0:57.0	What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the Team Never Quit podcast.
1:01.0	We've got a great guest for you guys, but we like to kick things off with a Patreon question of the day.
1:07.0	And today's question. What weapon would you choose in a zombie apocalypse?
1:13.0	Mark, we'll let you go first.
1:15.0	I get just one one to start, but I'd like to hear your options.
1:20.0	I mean, as a combat controller, not a weapons guy. I mean, you need a you need is I'll take a a Glock 45 and an M4.
1:29.0	And they are keeping some.
1:31.0	Okay, alright. First of all, are we talking like what we actually have access to or can we and can we go with like Iron Man's new suit?
1:37.0	Technically, we have one of those.
1:39.0	Technically, that's how it exists.
1:41.0	We just don't have access just yet.
1:43.0	Somebody that's listening to this show has access. Bring it on.
1:48.0	Yeah, I'm going to have to grab the lightsaber, the freaking is lid in the Mipley and then have one of the AC130s overhead just throwing bombs on.
1:58.0	Right. Just lightsaber in the mess of them.
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