"Its very likely that rest is not getting you closer to where you want to be" - Dr. Sean

Dr. Sean Pastuch is a thought leader in the health and fitness world whose industry disrupting company, Active Life, is bridging the gap between performance and rehabilitation. Dr. Sean believes that the larger the problem, the more valuable the solution. He believes that the biggest problem worth solving is the absence of healthcare, and the abundance of sick care in the United States and Internationally. That’s why the mission of Active Life is to humanize the doctor, professionalize the coach, and empower the individual.

Dr.Sean personally helped me with my shoulder injury. We go over his philosophy when it comes to rehabilitation. What we can do to treat common injuries like  tennis elbow, golfers elbow, wrist pain. His thoughts on alternative therapies. Enjoy

"Whats good for one person isn't necessarily good for the other person" - Simon Ata 

Simon Ata more famously known as Simonster started gymnastics at a young age where he became passionate on mastering his body. From gymnastics he went on to breaking dancing, calisthenics, martial arts, circus training. You probably seen his youtube video where he is knocking out planche push ups, & one arm handstands to a sick beat.

Today we talk about what his training looks like, whats his beef with Ido Portal, and some of his advice on how to step up your training enjoy.

Take Aways

He programs skill work 30 minutes before 1-2 hours of calisthenics training

His split is push / pull while throwing in legs 1x-2x week in the gym

2 practice sessions a day helps you advance faster for skills if you are already an experienced athlete

Stop before your form falls off

Start with static first for 4-5 sets then move on to dynamic exercise variations. Ratio of 1 to 3.

Best way to learn multiple skills is by training them in divided phases

Learn 1-2 skills at a time, master them, then switch them to a maintenance phase where you just go into the movement 1-2x a week

"I reached everything I want in calisthenics, so I want to take one step forward" - Vadym Oleynik  

I first stumbled on to Vadym, from a viral video filmed in Odessa, Ukraine. This was about a decade ago. I finally got to meet him at a freestyle competition in Norway. Since then he has transitioned to mostly really hard calisthenics superset training as well as weighted calisthenics. Becoming one of the strongest in calisthenics and having some of the highest levels of endurance.  

In this episode we talk about his transition to Crossfit, his supplements dos and don'ts. His suggested training plan for beginners, and how to pace yourself. How he handles overtraining and much more. Enjoy 

“It was visually stunning, its what caught my eye first. What made me want to tell the story of it was the heart of the culture of it. It was getting people off the streets, out of gangs, off of drugs. Turning their lives around through bodyweight exercise” - Rain Bennett

Rain Bennett is a two time Emmy-nominated filmmaker, writer, and competitive storyteller with over a decade of experience producing documentary films that focus on health and wellness.  With his company Six Second Stories, he takes the knowledge and skills learned from “indie” filmmaking and uses them to help purpose-driven companies and organizations use video storytelling in their marketing strategies to deepen their impact on communities and the world.  Bennett has been featured in publications like Men’s Health and Sports Business Global, has contributed to Huffington Post, Breaking Muscle, and Chapelboro, and hosts a podcast called The Storytelling Lab, where he breaks down the art and science of storytelling.

We talk about was he happy with the end result of the documentary. The controversies surrounding the documentary. What was left on the cutting room floor. We also dive into his fasting lifestyle. Rain be one of the first people I seen have success with Keto.

“I remember waking up and just checking my hands there was blood pouring down. My teeth were like jelly.” - Dejan Stipić

Dejan Stipić is a former gymnast, 2x National Champion (Serbia), Placed TOP 3 at Street Workout & Calisthenics World Cup Super Final, Placed TOP 10 at World Championship, Placed 2nd at the famous King of the bar,The owner of 25SevenFit App & GorillaGang brand

We speak about what differences he seen between the many diets he has tried including Vegan, Keto, Vegetarian diets.

Interesting enough he didn’t see much of a difference. Actually considered Vegan to be easier to get ripped as well as bulking up.

We speak about how he was stuck in Dubai because of Covid. Finding out last minute all flights are canceled after booking 3 of them. He had to cope with a very serious panic attack.

We talk about what supplements we use. We talked about how he gained weight. Why he doesn’t like freestyle anymore.

Enjoy

"I said Mike Chang thats awesome congratulations, now lets have a weighted back pack pull up rep competition, and the loser donates $50,000 to charity so we can put up pull up bars all over the world" - Marcus Bondi 

This episode features multiple world record holder Marcus Bondi from Bondi Beach, Australia. We have had the pleasure of knowing each other from many years through Youtube and in person as multiple events across the world. 

We talk about his secrets to training, his world record style of training, and how he avoids injuries never being injured in his life from working out. 

"I Trained Pull Ups Twice A Week" - Adam Sandel 

Adam Sandel is a three-time Guinness World Record holder in pull-ups including “Most Pull-Ups in One Minute” (68 pull-ups, set December 2018). He is an athlete in multiple sports, a philosopher, and an award-winning teacher at Harvard University.

While completing his PhD in political philosophy at Oxford University, Sandel competed in international powerlifting. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed book The Place of Prejudice: A Case for Reasoning within the World (Harvard University Press, 2014), which has been translated into multiple languages.

We talk about how he trained to break the world record for most pull ups in a minute, how he ties philosophy into his training, and what world record he is training to break now. Enjoy!

They shut down our studio over the new Corona virus. Should we keep recording from home or take a break? Give us your feedback on the socials. 

For the mean time

Wash Your Hands

Stay Indoors If You Can

Practice Social Distancing 

“It was all mental, I was super intimidated. I’d walk to a spot or see someone on instagram and judge them like they are way stronger than me. My weak mental was limiting me” - Snoop

Today our guest is Snoop. A frequent face on the calisthenics rep scene in New York. He has competed and won in several rep competitions, literally too many to name.

We speak about how he was initially intimidated from working out then fell in love with calisthenics to becoming a champ. We talk his training routines, and style. And how does he fit it all in while having 2 kids, and working 75 hour work weeks.

"I felt like a Super Hero, I could do things that other people could't do" - Dave Durante 

Dave Durante is a multiple time USA gymnastics national champion and was part of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Team as alternate. After retiring from competition, David helped coach his alma mater, Stanford University, to an NCAA Team Title in 2009 and has continued to be a part of the sport through his position on the Athlete Advisory Committee with the United States Olympic Committee as well as his position on the USA Gymnastics Men's Technical Committee. Dave was a lead coach with the CrossFit Gymnastics L1 course from 2013-2015. He also wrote and developed the CrossFit Gymnastics Advanced Course. Dave is co-owner of Power Monkey Fitness and Power Monkey Camp.

We talk about how gymnasts train, how they incorporate weight training, how he wish he would have trained, his competitive diet, and his worst injuries. Enjoy