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🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’m talking with Kathy Smith, who has been at the forefront of the fitness industry for nearly 40 years. Her authenticity is a rarity in a business where trends come and go within a matter of months. She’s an innovative mover who embraces change and seeks adventure. Her insatiable curiosity feeds her energy and vibrant outlook.
“It's a Buddhist philosophy of always looking at things with young eyes, fresh eyes, like you've never seen it before,” she says. “Where you get up and you're very present, you're very right now, you're very much like, ‘teach me something,’ as opposed to, ‘oh, I know that.’”
She believes that staying strong is the key to staying young and progress–not perfection–is a balanced approach.
“What's kept me in the game for all these years is that I have known when do you go hard and when do you back off and go gentle and do your yoga and your recovery and let your body heal,” Kathy says.
"Think about your fitness,” she continues, “it’s cardio, it’s strength and it’s stretching mind-body balance. So, those three things interestingly enough have not changed that much through the years. What's changed is how we approach that.”
Kathy’s mastered fitness efficiency: prioritizing HIIT, hacking strength training with blood flow restriction, and experiencing the remarkable physical and mental benefits of nasal breathing.
She’s also built a life and a lifelong business by connecting body and mind—and living that truth every day. She’s going to inspire you to do the same.
“At one point, we all have to look at our lives and just see how we're living them,” Kathy says. “If you honestly don't have enough time to take care of yourself and put yourself on your to-do list at all, then maybe it's time to evaluate the life a little bit.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:10.0 | Today we're going to talk about fitness, with someone who I would call a fitness titan. |
| 0:14.9 | In fact, that's what Forbes called her, none other than Kathy Smith. |
| 0:19.9 | She's been doing this health and wellness thing for almost 40 years of focusing on how |
| 0:26.6 | did she keep herself amazingly fit and healthy and how does she help people do that? |
| 0:31.9 | We're talking about, she pioneered her first fitness video in 1981. |
| 0:36.8 | If you're like a lot of people listening to the show, you never actually pushed a VCR |
| 0:41.5 | tape into a VCR thing and they had the saw the little stripes at the bottom because the |
| 0:47.6 | heads were misaligned and all that. |
| 0:49.3 | The stuff I did when I was in high school, well, yeah, that was the first fitness videos |
| 0:53.0 | and CDs and DVDs and later just know that crap. |
| 0:56.6 | She's been doing it for so much time, more than 20 million of them sold super authentic |
| 1:03.1 | and someone who's built a life and a lifelong business with connecting mind and body. |
| 1:09.7 | You're going to find this to be really inspirational. |
| 1:11.4 | You're going to learn something about how you can actually be incredibly vibrant, no matter |
| 1:15.9 | what you're doing, no matter where you are, no matter how long you've been doing something |
| 1:19.1 | that you love. |
| 1:20.5 | This is the second time she's been on the show. |
| 1:22.0 | I've been on her show and Kathy, it's an honor to have you back on Bulletproof Radio. |
| 1:26.3 | Oh, it's always so much fun. |
| 1:29.7 | You're my hero in so many ways because I feel this alignment with you because you're, |
| 1:35.4 | I'm turning 69 this year and when I, but when I was your age and but younger, I mean, |
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