Wrestling will change your life with Coach Mike Palazzo / COMBAT

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

“Wrestling will change your life,” says head wrestling coach Mike Palazzo, who has created a wrestling dynasty at Lake Highland Prep (Florida).

SpartanUp Combat Series host Ryan Warner and Joe De Sena interview Mike to learn how - within 10 years - he took a program on the brink of oblivion and turned Lake Highland Prep High School into a national powerhouse. In this episode you’ll learn...

-How wrestling is a vetting process for life

-To set goals - big goals - and develop a process to get there

-Understand that there are levels of greatness and know what it truly means to be the best in the country

-Run to the fire (Lake Highland Prep’s schedule is one of the toughest in the country)

-The correlation between wrestlers and OCR racers

Connect with Coach Palazzo:

-Central Florida Wrestling Academy

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0:00.0	Look, every kid who goes through the sport of wrestling actually earns something.
0:04.4	And they may not get a name on the wall, or they may not get a D1 scholarship,
0:09.6	they may not be a nationally ranked wrestler,
0:11.6	but our sport needs that humility and it needs to continue to have that thing. We all want to talk about the best wrestlers we've had or the most exciting moments that we've had and we've had some really good ones.
0:24.0	And those are great milestones for any program or any individual.
0:30.0	But I think the better stories are the ones that people may not even know.
0:34.8	That kid who went through this program, he did all the work, he did everything that everybody else did.
0:40.0	He really did never get an name on the wall, but I can tell you that his life completely changed from this process.
0:45.0	You are listening to Spartan Combat on Spartan Up.
0:50.0	Learn from battle testedtested combat athletes.
0:55.4	With your host Ryan Warner. Spartans! Welcome back to the combat series.
0:59.4	Joe DeCenna and I interview coach Michael Palazzo. He's created a wrestling dynasty at Lake Highland
1:06.0	Prep in Florida and this interview focuses on how wrestling is a vetting process for life.
1:12.4	Enjoy. Today's episode of Spartan Up is is a better
1:15.0	better-to-day today's episode of Spartan-Up is brought to you by Better Help.
1:16.4	Spartan-Up listeners can save 10% on their first month by going to BetterHelp.
1:20.1	com slash Spartan. Okay we have coach Help.
1:23.0	Okay, we have Coach Palazzo, leader of the Lake Highland Prep Dynasty.
1:29.0	We're going to get to that, but let's go back to the early stages for you. You're a product of
1:33.8	Illinois wrestled under one of the great programs in Illinois history, Glenbard
1:37.9	North. Tell me about the impact of Coach Han on on your wrestling and who you are today.
1:44.0	Oh yeah, like it.
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