Why the Worst Parts of Your Life Will Fuel Your Future Success w/ Ryan Fischer — Barbell Shrugged #372
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2019
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Fischer's (@ryanfisch) entire life has always been about fitness. At the age of 12 he was a world ranked BMX racer. In high-school he ran track at just about every distance, played lacrosse, and football at the varsity level since his freshman year. As Ryan grew up he got into skeleton and boblsed and qualified for the US Olympic Team Trials for both sports. Ryan has finished top 5 in the CrossFit Regionals for the past 3 years. Fischer even finished top 20 in the world in the CrossFit Open for the past 3 years also.
Fischer went from being homeless, couch surfing, stealing food at Whole Foods, and a stint as a male stripper, to becoming owner of the most successful gym in Orange County, CrossFit Chalk. He also created Chalk Online, a groundbreaking corporate wellness program.
Fischer always had a belief that life would work itself out if he kept working hard on his passions. In this episode of Barbell Shrugged Fischer discusses why people respond to false information, how flexible dieting won't fix your shitty nutrition habits, why you need to stare down the fire and not back down, and, the big one, Ryan Fischer's life story.
Enjoy!
- Anders and Doug
Episode Breakdown:
⚡️0-10: False information
⚡️11-20: The easy way out with nutrition
⚡️21-30: Therapy animals, diets, 200 and pounds of shrimp
⚡️31-40: If there are no new conversations to be had, what's next?
⚡️ 41-50: Core principles for life and "the new thing"
⚡️51-60: The power of connection
⚡️61-70: Ryan Fischer's story
⚡️71-80: Ryan gets teary eyed, stare down the fire and don't back down
⚡️81-90: The stuff you never forget
⚡️91-100: Why following the hard road will lead you to fulfillment
⚡️101-110: What Ryan's working on now
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family, we are hanging out with Ryan Fisher today. You can usually check |
| 0:04.6 | him out on Tuesdays on Real Talk, but today he's on Barbell Shrugged. Saturday |
| 0:09.3 | edition we've got two hours hanging out talking all things nutrition but |
| 0:13.9 | really digging into the story of Ryan Fisher and how so much adversity |
| 0:18.1 | through his life. A lot of people know about the story of him being homeless, |
| 0:23.6 | sleeping on couches at my gym and Pacific Beach, but now as the story unfolds |
| 0:29.8 | there's a whole bunch of family things that have happened in his life that |
| 0:32.7 | really fuel his passion and intensity to succeed and if you've been following |
| 0:36.9 | his career over the last couple years which has lit up lately. The Instagram's |
| 0:42.6 | the podcast, his new YouTube channel, make sure you get over to at Ryan Fisher |
| 0:47.9 | check out everything he's up to and two hours with Ryan Fisher. Let's go. |
| 0:55.4 | Literally a crunch and brunch. That's the other going to do crunches and |
| 0:59.4 | they better have some serious. Crunch and brunch. Welcome to Barbell Shrugged. I'm |
| 1:03.4 | Anders Barnard, Doug Larsen in the house, Ashley Van Halen, we're strong New York |
| 1:06.8 | in New York City, Attsolas, New York, all things New York. Ryan Fisher, what up |
| 1:12.3 | bro welcome back. I'm so excited to be on the show. We literally woke up like 20 |
| 1:18.2 | minutes ago. We were like we're just gonna put these things on. We're gonna we're |
| 1:22.0 | gonna talk about things. You guys had great expectations last night. You're like |
| 1:25.4 | workout seven a.m. One thing. I can really you guys are like yeah we'll we'll roll through. |
| 1:30.6 | It's a side story. We're gonna come out. We're just really excited to talk about your abs today. |
| 1:35.9 | Oh yeah. For those of you who don't know I did send her a very sexual kiss. It was adorable. |
| 1:42.2 | It made my night. You didn't have to go out and be social and I still got some |
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