The Transformation of Cole Sager
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the past, six-time CrossFit Games athlete Cole Sager wasn’t someone widely known for his performance during the CrossFit Open, but this year he’s making waves, finishing 6th worldwide at the 2019 CrossFit Open.
Cole joins the Brute Strength Podcast this week to discuss what changed in his approach to this year’s Games.
Spoiler alert: It all comes down to mindset.
He brings us back to his mentality during this year’s Open, discusses the topics of eating disorders and body image issues and shares his insight to maintaining a successful marriage.
Topics:
03:50 – 2019 Open
15:20 – Mindset transformation
19:40 – Ego
26:55 – Defining preparation
41:00 – Eating disorder
54:50 – Married life
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, |
| 0:18.0 | Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey, before we get this show started, let me quickly tell you about a program that we just launched called Outside the Box. When we first started Brute, we simply serve people that wanted to train for and compete at the Cross Fit Regionals and games. |
| 0:39.0 | Pretty quickly, we transitioned to also working with people that wanted to compete in the open, |
| 0:45.0 | people that just wanted to look better naked, |
| 0:47.0 | people that wanted to compete in weightlifting, |
| 0:49.0 | as well as a host of other goals. |
| 0:52.0 | About a year and a half half we started hearing more and more from |
| 0:55.2 | members and former members that their priorities were shifting, that their |
| 1:00.1 | goals were shifting. They wanted to focus more on their relationships, |
| 1:03.8 | on their careers, on new hobbies, |
| 1:06.4 | and they didn't have the same desire, |
| 1:08.9 | they didn't have the time or the means |
| 1:11.2 | to train for an hour or two or three or four like they did when they first |
| 1:14.8 | signed up with us. |
| 1:16.7 | So we created this program with them in mind. |
| 1:19.6 | Outside the box is a 30 minute a day program for five days a week and it requires minimal equipment. |
| 1:26.8 | There are three different tiers. |
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