Noah Ohlsen On Mindset And Perspective
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Noah Ohlsen is a five-time CrossFit Games athlete turned two-time Brute Strength podcast guest (but you may not see the latter in his Instagram bio).
Once known for his perfect hair and boyish smile, Noah has made a name for himself in the CrossFit community, proving time and time again what it means to come back from setbacks in the sport. Even with a few unlucky moments in his CrossFit Games career, he's managed to place within the Top 10 in four of his last five Games appearances.
In this week's episode, Noah recaps his experience at this year's Wodapalooza. He gets honest about staying motivated in his training and how it's changed since CrossFit officials announced changes to sanctioned events.
Topics:
04:15 – Wodapalooza 2019 recap
15:30 – Social media and fitness
21:26 – Sanctioned events, training and peaking
36:00 – Motivation
41:40 – Common training mistakes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.4 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou. |
| 0:19.6 | Mind, Body, Brute. Hey, and welcome back. My name is Mike |
| 0:27.6 | Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. This week, I've got Noah Olson back on the show. |
| 0:33.5 | Noah is a five-time CrossFit Games athlete, and he's placed as high as fourth at the games. |
| 0:40.5 | In this show, we talk about what happened at Watapalooza this year. |
| 0:44.4 | He did not have his best performance and he explains everything that went on and how he bounced back. |
| 0:51.2 | We talk about how he's changed his mindset over the years, why he thinks he has a |
| 0:55.4 | pattern of making one really big mistake at a lot of events like the games and what his plan is |
| 1:01.4 | to overcome it. We talk about how he deals with the pressure from having 500,000 Instagram fans |
| 1:09.5 | and what it's like to have so much of his personal life kind of on display and up for criticism. |
| 1:16.0 | We talk about his plans for the rest of the season, and we finish with his three biggest pieces of advice for people that want to improve their training. |
| 1:24.3 | Before we get this show started, guys, if you want to give back to the show, just share |
| 1:28.2 | this with a friend, hit the subscribe button. That's all you can do. Thank you so much for listening. |
| 1:33.3 | Enjoy the show. Noah, welcome back to the show, man. Such a pleasure to be here again. |
| 1:41.0 | So every now and then I'll get some of our audience to chime in with questions. |
| 1:46.7 | And we've got a great question to start off the show. |
| 1:49.9 | This is from at Andrew Shequin 9 on Instagram. |
| 1:53.9 | And he wants to know, do you lean or stand while you wipe your ass? |
| 1:58.7 | Oh, wow. |
| 2:00.8 | Definitely a leaner. Does anybody stand when they... while you wipe your ass. Oh, wow. |
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