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Mind Of The Warrior

MOTW #5: Fan Questions

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8900 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

Email: hoplonmedical@gmail.com

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0:00.0

Hey everybody welcome back to mind of the warrior.

0:11.0

Almost had a complete disaster today. So got up, first of all I got a

0:17.9

terrible night's sleep and a lot of times I'll actually forego my morning workout if I don't sleep well the night before because my body hasn't had the proper rest, but I really wanted to get on the peloton bike this morning.

0:31.2

I did yesterday, I did a peloton in the morning and I went to

0:34.4

Jiu-Jitsu in the evening and I really wanted to do a hard session on the

0:40.1

peloton this morning that was my plan. I kind of gauge myself off the 45 minute

0:45.0

rides I rarely do the 30 minutes unless I do a really hard Tabada or hit 45 is kind of the

0:51.7

meat and potatoes I try to do more and more hour long rides because I'm trying to burn those calories. Like I say, I'm trying to lean myself down a little bit.

1:01.0

Decided to go ahead and jump on the bike.

1:02.9

Glad I did.

1:04.0

Crushed my previous personal best.

1:06.8

Put out 346 kilo-jules.

1:08.6

I was pretty proud of that.

1:11.2

My lovely wife, Denise, took time out of her busy day to make me an omelet and some bacon and get my coffee ready and everything else and I run out of the house to get down here to 5th Street Studios to do the

1:27.6

podcast and I'm about two miles away from the house I look I'll reach over to get a swig of coffee and I forgot my coffee. I left my

1:34.8

coffee at home. So that has the potential of completely ruining my day. But as luck would have it, I have

1:41.8

in my bag that I carry everywhere my Strike Force Energy packets.

1:46.4

And if you haven't used Strike Force Energy, I can't say enough good things about it.

1:50.4

So this is a company, this is a product that was developed in

1:54.2

conjunction with a Navy Seal. Wanted a product that would give a boost without

1:58.6

all the jitters of getting too much that you get from an another energy drinks and things like that.

2:06.7

I like the orange especially in the first part of the day because I feel like I'm drinking

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