Real Chalk — Unsustainable Fast-track Model w/ James Fitzgerald — 32
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
James Fitzgerald is founder and CEO of OPEX Fitness. His 20+ years of experience and service as a strength coach/technician, tireless practice on refining energy system work, nourishment and lifestyle balancing techniques, and training of other coaches, has made OPEX a sought after method of bringing fitness to a Higher Order.
James has found a desire and passion to understanding fitness through assessment, testing, research, programming and more. He has had many years of experience as an athlete from early childhood into adulthood, from playing top-level soccer, to short and long distance running, to CrossFit where he was crowned “The Fittest on Earth,” winner of the 2007 CrossFit Games.
In this episode, James shares how he found himself again after injury as a young athlete, how he always knew he wanted to deliver the gift of fitness to other people, how the current system of fitness is flawed and how to change it, why marketing is stronger than education – why people follow the next best thing every single time, why he hates the word biohacking, his take on drugs, psychedelics, weed, steroids, and more.
Enjoy!
– Ryan and Yaya
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'll ride or ride or ride or ride you guys know who it is. It's Yaya coming at you with the brand new episode of the Real Chalk podcast |
| 0:07.0 | You guys are tuned in to the Shrug Collective and OPEX Month this month continues on the Real Chalk podcast right |
| 0:14.8 | And I flew up to Phoenix, Arizona when to OPEX headquarters. You guys already got Marcus Philly two weeks ago |
| 0:21.4 | And then we had Mike Lee director of coaching over at OPEX |
| 0:26.5 | Last week and this week we're gonna come out with a bang James Fitzgerald demand and myth the legend |
| 0:32.5 | I am guessing most of you guys especially listening to his podcast already know who James Fitz is |
| 0:39.5 | Even though |
| 0:41.0 | Hopefully you'll know him a little bit more after this podcast episode is over as always Ryan and I try to |
| 0:47.4 | Ask just a couple different questions a little different approach than most podcasts out there to maybe get some stuff out of James |
| 0:54.2 | That you guys have never heard before whole podcast is awesome the entire time we just kind of get the feeling that |
| 1:01.4 | James just knows something about the world and the universe and how everything works that |
| 1:07.1 | You don't and you might most probably never will |
| 1:12.3 | We go all the way from how we found himself after an injury as a young man and then went into learning more about fitness |
| 1:19.7 | And then trying to give the gift of fitness to other people all the way to how he believes that nowadays the current system of fitness is just |
| 1:27.5 | Flood he calls it the unsustainable fast track model |
| 1:30.5 | It's the reason why people always jumping into the next best thing and always looking for the magic pill and this |
| 1:36.2 | 30-day challenge and this will make you skinny in 60 days and all that fucking nonsense and |
| 1:42.9 | James actually has a great take on this and how to change this going forward |
| 1:47.7 | We also dive into more stuff like his take on drugs like a deliqs weed steroids |
| 1:53.9 | Why he hates the word biohacking? |
| 1:56.3 | He actually got really mad at me for that one for using that and I got terrified so |
| 2:01.9 | All that in this episode coming up |
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