Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ,

Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

Hey everyone, this is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

On this week's show I've got a dear friend Floyd McClendon Jr. Floyd is a former Navy SEAL and he's currently involved in Texas politics.

The way that I met Floyd is through Seal Fit and we start to show out by me telling the story of how we met and it's really funny because we met at seal fit and he had a

really powerful impact on me there and he taught me he said some things that

that taught me a lot about leadership and but he never we never got a chance to really really dive in and talk about it like he just kind of mentioned some things in passing because it's a very high pressure

event seal fit is and so we never got a chance to dive into it and so over the years I thought about this guy for like dozens of times and I just

wanted to know more about what he told me while I was there. And so we start to

show off by talking about what he was trying to teach me.

And it's a lesson on leadership that I've been mulling over for years.

And so I think that'll be really interesting to you. We talk about how the

process of him becoming a Navy SEAL changed him as a person. It's a really it's one of the

it's notorious for being one of the hardest crucible experiences, one of the most

grueling experiences, like formal experiences that anyone can go through on the planet.

And he talks about how that humbled him.

And then we spend the majority of the show talking about what he calls the seven principles

for preparing for battle.

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