Mastering the KettleBell and Holistic Practices for High Performance — The Bledsoe Show #136
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about competing in kettlebells, suples Bulgarian bags, Mike's experience working with Paul Chek, becoming a world champion in kettlebells, and his new programs and Costa Rica retreats.
Mike Salemi specializes in human performance and is a sought after international presenter in the field of health and fitness.
Mike has a diverse background in strength and conditioning and has competed over the course of 15+ years at an elite level in Powerlifting and Kettlebell Sport. Through his own path of resolving sport-related injuries, Mike understands the importance of integrating the body, mind, and spirit as a means to foster high performance for the long term. His motivation is to help athletes, fitness professionals, and coaches discover their own potential from the inside-out.
Professionally, Mike has served as a Division 1 strength and conditioning coach for Santa Clara University, as well as been the trainer to elite athletes across a wide range of sports.
His focus is teaching educational workshops, certifications, and creating programs on unconventional training that build more balance athletes.
Minute Breakdown:
0 - 18 How Mike became the top kettlebell athlete in the world. Salemi upcoming retreat in Costa Rica and healing. What are Bulgarian bags and why they are safe and powerful.
18 - 29 Continual journey of working on yourself. Mike's experience working with Paul Chek. Eldoa Stretching and how it works with the fascia to release trauma.
29 - 42 Trying to be more balanced individual while still pushing yourself. Work in vs. work out. The four main criteria that are needed for working movements. What's in Mike's kettlebell program and how this is different than any other program out there.
Discount on Mike Salemi kettlebell program www.mikesalemi.io/bledsoe
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| 0:00.0 | I've got a free webinar going up on this next Thursday, 430 PM Pacific. |
| 0:07.8 | How to build your coaching business. |
| 0:09.0 | It's going to be one hour. |
| 0:11.2 | And if you want to get signed up for that free webinar, you're going to be able to ask |
| 0:14.5 | me questions along with my head coach, Danny from the Strong Coach. |
| 0:19.4 | Make sure you're on the mailing list. |
| 0:20.8 | Go to thestrongcoach.com and make sure you're signed up there. |
| 0:25.0 | Additionally, I've got a retreat coming up. |
| 0:27.4 | This is the first time I'm doing this in three years. |
| 0:30.2 | The last time I held a retreat for coaches and business owners was three years ago. |
| 0:35.9 | I shut it down. |
| 0:38.0 | That was with Barbell Business. |
| 0:40.2 | And over the years, I've really learned that I love working with coaches and I'm super |
| 0:48.2 | fired up about that right now. |
| 0:50.7 | Another thing that I'm doing is I used to charge more for these retreats. |
| 0:55.5 | So for this retreat, this coming up, I'm actually cutting the price in half because I want |
| 1:02.0 | to get more people in the room. |
| 1:03.3 | I used to get 25, 30 people in the room. |
| 1:05.6 | I'd like to get 50 to 100 people in the room. |
| 1:09.1 | So it'll still stay pretty intimate and we're going to pound you with information on how |
| 1:16.1 | to build your coaching business. |
| 1:17.6 | We're going to be talking about the art of coaching. |
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