Mastering Your Craft and Qualifying for the Olympics ft. Chris Mazdzer

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Brute Strength Podcast we have guest speaker, Chris Mazdzer. Chris is an American Luger who has been active since 2001 and in 2015, he won the Luge World Cup Men’s singles even in Lake Placid. Whether you're training for Regionals, The Games, or the Olympics, there is a lot to learn from Chris and his experiences as an Olympic athlete. We’ll be getting into his early Luge career, qualifying for the Olympics, and his mental preparation as an elite athlete. Enjoy the show.

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Topics of discussion:

2:30 - Describing a Luge run

9:00 - Early Luge career

15:50 - Growing up at age 13

20:30 - Making it to the Pros

26:50 - Facing your fears as an athlete

36:30 - Qualifying for the Olympics

43:30 - Working under pressure

48:50 - Beating Felix Loch

51:35 - Facing mental challenges

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Mike Kaju, and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast.
0:03.3	This week's guest is a good friend of mine named Chris Masder.
0:06.8	Chris is a two-time Olympic, Loos athlete, a seven-time national champion,
0:11.7	and has been ranked as high as third in the world in
0:14.0	Louge. Louge is a sport where you ride in a sled feet first down an icy maze at
0:19.9	about 95 miles an hour and there's enormous risk of injury and even death in some
0:27.2	circumstances. So the reason that I set up the podcast in the first place
0:31.0	and the and the first topic of this podcast was fear and how to overcome it.
0:36.4	And you'll hear me tell a story about the first time that I met Chris seeing him do a
0:41.2	gainer off of an 80 foot cliff. I think or I know that all of us
0:48.4	experience fear in some area or all areas of our life,
0:54.6	most of us on a frequent basis.
0:56.4	And so I'm always curious how people are able
0:59.6	to take action despite feeling fear.
1:01.9	And Chris does that every single day in his training
1:05.9	in a very big way.
1:07.0	So I was really interested to hear his perspective on that.
1:11.0	Other than that, it's just incredibly impressive.
1:14.0	Anyone that's able to not only go to the Olympics, but go there multiple times.
1:19.0	On February 10th and 11th, Chris will be competing in Korea for his third Olympics in a row.
1:27.8	And I wanted to know how did he get all the way to the top?
1:31.2	How do you compete with the best of the best and work your way all the way to the top of a certain discipline?
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