The Bledsoe Show w/ Benjamin Bunn - Green Beret to CrossFit Gym Owner #94
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Bunn (@coach_bunny) is a retired Special Forces Green Beret and Army Infantry Officer with over 17 years of service, who became a CrossFit gym owner. Ben owns Cigar City CrossFit (@cigarcitycrossfit) based out of Tampa, FL, and spends most his time training others in the gym. He is also working towards competing as a master in the CrossFit games and becoming a certified Yoga instructor.
As a former Special Forces Operator, Ben places value in functional fitness and mitigating the risk of injury. He is a strong believer that people should be able to run fast, lift heavy and throw a punch. Although he is no longer in uniform, service is still an important core value to him. Ben regularly volunteers with Team RWB, Exalted Warrior, and Companions for Heroes.
In this episode, we dive into how to transition out of the military in a healthy manner, the importance of community for veterans, organizations that are great to join as a veteran looking for community, war stories, how things get twisted by the news in regard to reporting war and how the news is now more interested in entertainment than being accurate, why Landmark Forum is a good idea for veterans, Viewing cannabis as a supplement more than a drug, and how cannabis can be beneficial for those who are suffering from various types of trauma (PTSD), and much more.
Enjoy!
-Mike
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bloodsow Show. This is your host, Mike Bloodsow, and I am recording the introduction here. |
| 0:06.0 | I had a secret location in the desert. I'm with the Procabularity team, Mark England, and we are putting together a very special course, specifically for athletes. |
| 0:19.0 | And if you've been exposed to anything I've done in March before, shows and things we've promoted of his, then you'll know it's going to be really amazing top notch. |
| 0:28.0 | Very, there's a very unique offering we're coming up with. We're coming up with something that has never been done before. |
| 0:36.0 | And it's so different that we're going to, we're really racking our brains to name this thing so you will get exactly, you'll understand what you get out of it. |
| 0:45.0 | So it's, we're out in the desert, it's 110 degrees outside, and we've locked ourselves indoors to work on this curriculum. |
| 0:52.0 | And a couple of things get us through. One is the Organify, drinking that green drink at night, and green drink in the morning and the gold drink at night. |
| 1:02.0 | I brought it in for the whole team as we're working on stuff. Everyone's taking it. Everyone's enjoying it. |
| 1:08.0 | If you want to get your own Organify, go to organify.com, use the code Bloodsow, you will get 20% off. |
| 1:16.0 | And another thing you want to make sure you hit is short collected dot com. Check out the vault. |
| 1:22.0 | If you want to get access to all the training programs we put together, if you want to be a better weightlifter, if you want to be a better cross fitter, if you want to be, if you want to be a better athlete, then there's something in there for you. |
| 1:34.0 | And so go over to short collected dot com, hit the vault, check that out, and you'll get access to the Facebook group. |
| 1:40.0 | So you can join the community, join the conversation that we're in over there around training and nutrition. Enjoy the show. |
| 1:49.0 | Alright, so, yeah, we were, we were hanging out last night and having dinner and the thing that really came up between you and I that was really fascinating is I was, I got talking about how I've noticed the pattern of get out of the military, open across the gym. |
| 2:17.0 | And then, and then I've seen some people come out the other side of it, becoming very successful with their gym, springboarding into other businesses, or I've also seen just shutting the gym down and then going and getting a job somewhere and not knowing really what to do and feeling lost. |
| 2:35.0 | And you would notice the same thing and you'd notice that there was this pattern. There's something we all shared. |
| 2:42.0 | And, and you're somebody who got out of the military after 17 years. Correct. |
| 2:48.0 | And you, in my opinion, what I'm looking at is that you've crushed it. |
| 2:53.0 | And that's a long time to have been in the service and to transition out and do it in a healthy manner. I know for me, I only serve for four and a half years. |
| 3:04.0 | And one of the things I recognize is I watched guys get out of how the military after 20 years, you know, they hit that retirement age. |
| 3:14.0 | And they, they're, I just remember them still being around after they retired and talking about how hard it is out there. |
| 3:22.0 | And I thought, you know, I realized about two to three years into being in the military that it wasn't for me. |
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