Joe DeSena, Owner of Spartan, talks with Gene Zannetti about the new book he collaborated on, Extreme Balance: Paradoxical Principles That Make You a Champion https://a.co/d/1L9D0oI.

Together, they dive into some core teachings of the book: the mistake most people make is to sacrifice health and wellness first, how we need to shift from focusing on work-life balance to work-life integration, and that kids can learn a lot through rejection that will help build their character.

Timestamps:

0:28 - Extreme Balance Example

3:12 - Work-life integration, not balance

5:07 - Don't sacrifice health and wellness

9:42 - Gotta make life fun

12:14 - The love-hate relationship between fathers and sons

15:32 - Kids learn more through rejection

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Ben Askren and Spartan Owner Joe DeSena wrote a book Extreme Balance https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Balance-Paradoxical-Principles-Champion/dp/1642011770 to teach wrestlers how to balance paradox to Succeed in wrestling and life.

Timestamps:

2:15 - Living in a world of paradox

8:09 - The most common questions

12:30 - Balancing confidence and motivation

21:29 - Not following Iowa-style wrestling

26:39 - Inspiration from other martial arts

33:24 - Wrestling concepts for everyday life

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This week, Wrestling Mindset founder Gene Zannetti sits down with the founder of Functional Patterns, Naudi Aguilar.

Together, they discuss how wrestling is more multi-dimensional and challenging than mixed martial arts.

They also talk about how to deal with and even utilize the generational trauma that exists inside all of us. They break down common misconceptions about heavy lifting and sprinting. They also get into how understanding functional anatomy is essential when we are striving to reach greatness.

Timestamps:

5:50 - Dealing with generational trauma

8:55 - Wrestling is multi-dimensional

13:00 - How to approach greatness

20:08 - Misconception about lifting heavy

29:53 - Movement and exercise at a young age

37:10 - Sprinting is injury prone

44:48 - Understanding functional anatomy

57:10 - Seeing movement as a whole

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This week, Wrestling Mindset founder Gene Zannetti sits down with Head Coach of USA Women's Team, Terry Steiner.

Together, they discuss how the US Olympic Women's Team faired this year

They also talked about their approach to the Olympics and what effect it had on the team, how country cultures play a role in wrestling overall, and they break down the performance and future potential of each wrestler on the team.

Timestamps:

1:14 - Approach to the Olympics

6:26 - Culture's role in wrestling

9:01 - Going through the weight classes

9:05 - Amit Elor

13:04 -Sarah Hildebrandt

19:58 - Dominique Parrish

25:08 - Helen Maroulis

29:20 - Kayla Miracle

32:38 - Team USA has the best lineup

33:10 -Kennedy Blades

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This week, Wrestling Mindset founder Gene Zannetti sits down with legendary coach Tadaaki Hatta.

Together, they discuss Japan's success in this year's Olympics and how the trend of their dominance could be seen from the previous Olympics in 2020.

They also talked about differences in wrestling in Japan versus the US, what are the philosophies of the sport between the two countries, how the Olympics are the peak of wrestling for most of the world, but for the US, it's the NCAAs and why wrestling actually is considered a martial art in Japan.

Timestamps:

0:55 - Japan's Olympic dominance

7:44 - Communication between team and personal coaches

8:55 - Japan's improvements from last Olympics

17:40 - Wrestling philosophies

23:12 - USA wrestler peaking at NCAAs

32:13 - Wrestling IS a martial art

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This week, Wrestling Mindset founder Gene Zannetti sits down with Olympic Gold Medalist Zaurbek Sidakov.

Together, they discuss how Russia managed to standardize practice routines across the country during communism; even though this may have hurt innovative practice methods, it set values and goals for all to aspire to and strive for.

They also talked about the difference between static stretching and dynamic warmups and how warning up is a part of the workout and not just something we have to do. And how giving your absolute best in any practice or match can help build your confidence more.

Timestamps:

0:48 - Dynamic warmup vs static stretching

1:49 - Standardizing practices

2:49 - Warming up is part of the workout

6:28 - Giving your best gives you confidence

11:18 - Luck is needed to be the best

17:00 - Sidakov on sports psychology

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This week, Wrestling Mindset founder Gene Zannetti sits down with Neurosurgeon and CEO of Optimized Life, Dr.Jack Kruse

Kyle Dake spoke about how he maximizes his potential through the theories of Jack Kruse on Quantum Biology (Light, Water, and Magnetism). Dake on Flo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLGYJvHvWZM&t=347s

Dr. Jack Kruse is a respected neurosurgeon and CEO of Kruse Longevity Center https://jackkruse.com/ Mentioned in show: Recommendations for high altitude living podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VFTXZrbyNA

Together, they discuss the only way to improve performance is to improve your overall health. They also talk about the Russian tactic of always training outside and how it benefits the body, how it's important to move and optimize sleep, and in order to optimize ourselves we first need to know ow what our bodies need most of all.

Timestamps:

2:35 - Taking training outside

6:50 - The Russian edge

26:30 - Optimizing sleep

31:10 - Improved health will lead to improved performance

49:34 - Movement is important

1:01:10 - What needs to be optimized

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Wrestling Mindset is the Official Mental Training Partner of USA Wrestling.

Topics:

- Breakdown of Mens Freestyle, Greco and Women's Freestyle Results

- Success of Team Japan

- Russia Out of Olympics?

- Sebastian Rivera Bronze Medal and Coach Jeff Buxton Saves Day

- Dake and Takatani Keep it in Perspective

- Post Olympic Depression

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