Mike Bledsoe | Why He Left the Strength Biz for the MIND Biz
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Mike Bledsoe walked away from the success he earned in the fitness industry as part of Barbell Shrugged to look inward. He is now focused on how mindset influences your performance. By looking at language and how you view your own story, new revelations in your mental and emotional patterning can be revealed. What causes deep underlying pain in your body? It may actually be attributed to unresolved trauma from your past. In this interview, we discuss the benefits of breathing and the importance of being able to be patient and wait to achieve what you are aiming for.
LESSONS
Start with language
You can’t unknow
Injuries may originate from an emotional trauma
Fight, flight or freeze
Focus on your breathing
Deal with your past
Trust the process
You need space to be creative and change
Learn to be patient and wait
Impact with effective action
Understand your story and identity
BREATH
Look at your story
LINKS
https://thebledsoeshow.com
https://www.thestrongcoach.com
https://www.enlifted.me
Mike Bledsoe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mike_bledsoe
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TIME STAMPS
0:00 Dr. Johnny & Joe De Sena introduce the guy who inspired our podcast
2:00 TRUEFORMRUNNER.COM/SPARTAN intro
2:30 Interview begins with Sefra and Mike
3:10 Mindset training in regards to language, emotional and spiritual development
4:10 Choosing your own path and overcoming setbacks through a lot of work
5:45 How previous life experiences influence your health and embodied pain
7:30 Injuries and how they relate to emotional trauma
8:30 Fight, Flight or Freeze
9:30 The key is in breathing
10:30 Are we avoiding feelings?
11:45 TRUEFORMRUNNER.COM/SPARTAN break
13:05 The interview continues with emotional work
14:05 Living your on auto-pilot and not dealing with your past
15:25 Working on patience and having trust
16:45 Learning to wait
19:30 What is effective action?
21:10 Understand language, story and identity
22:40 Breathing & looking at your story
24:24 Joe De Sena & Dr. Johnny discuss Mike’s interview
32:30 TRUEFORMRUNNER.COM/SPARTAN close
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena, Dr. Johnny Waite & Sefra Alexandra
Col. Nye is off on a bike expedition
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Spartan up podcast myself Johnny Waite normally it's Colonel Nye and |
| 0:04.5 | Sepfra but they are not here right now so we're holding down the fort two-man show |
| 0:09.2 | We just interviewed an awesome awesome guy who basically is the inspiration of the reason we have a |
| 0:14.3 | podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | Three story. Mike Bloodsow, own the podcast, Barbell Shrog, top rated podcast on health and wellness, |
| 0:21.0 | specifically focused on cross fit really and came to the |
| 0:25.2 | farm years ago you got a if you get a chance you got a Google and find the interview they did |
| 0:30.1 | with me God it's got to be five years ago six years ago and we spent hours in the |
| 0:34.6 | general store hike in the mountain and I remember they left and I was like I like |
| 0:39.1 | this podcast thing and reached out to Marion our producer and here we are we got 300 plus |
| 0:45.0 | episodes because of it. So this was an interesting interview because he's since |
| 0:50.0 | disconnected from Barbel Shug. He's completely transformed. He's reinvented himself, learned a lot about |
| 0:56.4 | himself. And I think we have some really good takeaways at home that we could use here. |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah, he's become really a coach to coach. at home that we could use here. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, he's become really a coach to coaches. |
| 1:05.0 | He's moved away so much from the physical. |
| 1:07.0 | He's looking a lot more at the emotional, the mental, |
| 1:10.0 | the spiritual side of things. |
| 1:11.0 | And really interesting guy, and I love that he had a |
| 1:14.5 | real successful thing going could have taken the easy path said no I'm gonna dive in |
| 1:17.6 | do something difficult completely reinvent myself you know in that crossfit world |
| 1:22.0 | you know not necessarily the one that would be the easiest to say I'm |
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