TMHS 889: Do These Exercises to Burn Fat, Increase Your Fitness, & Age in Reverse - With Derek Williams
The Model Health Show
Shawn Stevenson
4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Staying fit as you age requires greater level of dedication and awareness. It also takes a smart strategy that can help you maximize your results, avoid injuries, and build functionality. On today’s show, you’re going to learn actionable steps to increase your fitness as you age.
Derek Williams, also known as Mr1nf1n1ty is a former pro-athlete, author, and the founder of the fastest growing fitness and lifestyle brand on the planet. His mission is to help athletes train properly, maximize their potential, and increase their energy. On this episode of The Model Health Show, Derek is sharing his secrets on how to train for longevity.
You’re going to learn about the top exercises you need to do to build a healthy, injury-proof body, how to combine fitness modalities for maximum results, and the mindset shift that are necessary to step into higher levels of awareness. Derek has a fascinating story and a wealth of information to share; I hope you enjoy this interview!
In this episode you’ll discover:
- The important role that consciousness plays in fitness.
- Why you have to be careful who you take advice from.
- The major problems with the fitness industry.
- What strength through length means.
- The importance of learning how to train properly.
- An overlooked muscle that you need to train to avoid injury.
- The benefits of sled workouts.
- Why training your ligaments and tendons can protect you.
- How Derek got interested in fitness, and the evolution of his career.
- Why self-belief is the key to discipline.
- How to master pull ups.
- Why grip strength correlates with longevity.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson. |
| 0:04.7 | For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com. |
| 0:11.5 | The game is changing. |
| 0:13.6 | No longer are we settling for the conventional version of aging. |
| 0:18.3 | As you are well aware, here in our modern society, aging looks very, very different |
| 0:24.3 | than our ancestors. But I'm here today to tell you that rapid degradation and degeneration |
| 0:31.3 | does not have to be your story. And through that, it's all about having models and examples who are willing to share their insights, to share their blueprint for how we can age gracefully. |
| 0:44.5 | But more important than that, having the audacity to be better than we've ever been. |
| 0:51.4 | And my special guest today checks all of those boxes. He absolutely blew me away with his |
| 0:56.9 | level of fitness, functionality, things he's doing at almost 50 years old, dunking out the gym. I mean, |
| 1:03.7 | it's just absolutely amazing. But as you'll hear, this was not always his story. He was dealing |
| 1:10.0 | with a lot of pain and a lot of struggle. |
| 1:12.8 | But through a series of events that he's going to share with you, he was able to find out what some people might look at as a fountain of youth. |
| 1:21.4 | But it's not something that you drink. It was some practices. And by employing these things in his life, he was able to transform his body, |
| 1:28.6 | his mind, and also impact countless people all over the world. Right now he's frequently |
| 1:35.0 | training and coaching professional athletes. And of course, everyday folks who just want to achieve |
| 1:40.1 | the very best fitness that's possible for them. And these principles that you're going to learn are very actionable and doable at some level for all of us. |
| 1:49.9 | And so I'm very inspired to share this powerful episode with you today. |
| 1:54.1 | Today's guest is Derek Williams, aka Mr. Infinity. |
| 1:59.1 | And he's a former professional athlete, |
| 2:01.5 | author, and the founder of the fastest growing fitness |
| 2:04.6 | and lifestyle brand on the planet. |
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