Robb Wolf | Paleo, CrossFit & Business ep. 148
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Is Paleo the best diet? The CrossFit pioneer who authored “The Paleo Solution” says maybe. Results may vary according to who you are. The point is you’ll need to experiment a little. Similarly when he started the first CrossFit gym. Rob Wolf didn’t have the franchise model or rule book, He had to write it himself. If you’re going to be successful, he urges you to do the same.
Listen this week to learn why Robb Wolf got into CrossFit, wrote “The Paleo Solution,” why you should read his new book “Wired to Eat,” and his secret to success.
Lessons:
1. Sometimes you succeed because you’re left with no other choice.
2. Experiment: try something for a month then determine its cost/benefit for you.
3. Run with your passion and find people who will compensate for your weaknesses.
Links: Robb Wolf’s new book “Wired to Eat” https://robbwolf.com/
CREDITS
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye, & Dr. Delle Synopsis – Matt Baatz © 2017 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. We are here in the Amy Barn. I have Tim Nye, Jotocenna, |
| 0:06.6 | Sefra, I'm Dr. Johnny, we've got Marion and Andrew who make this all happen. And we have Rob Wolf, Rob of paleo fame, one of the original crossfit guys, really a |
| 0:17.8 | guy who has some incredible things to share with us about fitness, about diet. |
| 0:22.0 | Let's go see it. All right, we are here for Spartan Up podcast in Malibu with Rob Wolf, the infamous |
| 0:28.3 | Rob Wolf, who has a problem just like I have, which is we both have military envy many people have said to him |
| 0:36.2 | you must have been in the military yeah and I tell them that my only regret in life is actually not |
| 0:40.9 | becoming a marine I'm in the same boat. I obviously thank |
| 0:44.8 | everybody for their services but I didn't do it. I sure. Well my deathbed I will |
| 0:49.1 | have few regrets but not going in the military will be one of them I'm still certain. |
| 0:53.2 | So you grew up in Northern California? |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, Chico Redding area did my undergrad at Chico State. |
| 0:58.7 | It was in biochemistry. |
| 1:00.3 | Went on to do some cancer and auto immunity research and then that led me into this kind of nutrition paleo diet kind of research |
| 1:06.6 | What's your big thing? What are you known for? I guess I'm kind of like the paleo guy so I my book |
| 1:12.6 | really prior to my book launching there wasn't a paleo diet |
| 1:16.1 | category in a bookstore like on Amazon and then after that it really |
| 1:19.9 | kind of cracked that market open I was involved very early on with the cross-fit movement. I co-founded the first and fourth cross-fit affiliate gems and ended up working with them for a long time. |
| 1:30.0 | So is that how paleo became part of the whole... |
| 1:32.0 | It piggy backed off that whole thing, became part of the whole? |
| 1:32.6 | It piggy backed off that whole thing, you know, the whole cross fit concept and their focus |
| 1:37.2 | on functional fitness and functional eating, then that paleo concept really dovetailed beautifully into that. |
| 1:44.0 | How did you have the foresight to open the first cross-fit |
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