Podcast Episodes
Back to Search395 - The English Roots of Catchwrestling, with Oz Austwick
Episode 395
Did you know that the England had many different wrestling systems including Cornish, Lancashire, Devonshire, Cumberland and Westmoreland wrestling a…
2 years, 1 month ago
394 - The Anatomy of a BJJ Training Camp
Episode 394
Rob Biernacki and his competition team are on a tear. Rob recently took gold in masters middleweight the Canadian ADCC Open, silver at the California…
2 years, 3 months ago
393 - Historical Bareknuckle Boxing and European Swordfighting, with Oz Austwick
Episode 393
In episode 393 of The Strenuous Life Podcast I talk to Oz Austwick, who has extensively studied armed and unarmed combat systems in Europe. Topics we…
2 years, 3 months ago
392 - Everest, Alone, In Winter, and Without Oxygen, with Mountaineer Jost Kobusch
Episode 392
Today I pick the brain of the amazing Jost Kobusch is a German mountaineer who spent two seasons on Everest trying to ascend the legendarily difficul…
2 years, 4 months ago
391 - The Most Important Mental Models in BJJ, with Steve Kwan
Episode 391
Today I'm joined by Steve Kwan, the host and creator of the wildly popular BJJ Mental Models podcast. We discuss the most important mental models in…
2 years, 4 months ago
390 - UFOs, UAPs, and Alien Bodies with Skeptical Investigator Mick West
Episode 390
With eyewitness testimony in the US Congress and purported alien bodies being wheeled into the Mexican Congress, it looks like we're in another UFO c…
2 years, 5 months ago
389 - How to Train for Strength, Endurance and Jiu-Jitsu Simultaneously, with World Record holder James Pieratt of Wild Hunt Conditioning
Episode 389
I caught up with world record holder James Pieratt shortly after he completed a 500-mile, self-supported mountain run along the Pacific Crest Trail. …
2 years, 7 months ago
388 - The Ultimate Self Defense Championship with Rokas Leo
The Ultimate Self-Defense Championship was a competition in which six martial arts YouTubers competed against each other in seven self-defense challe…
2 years, 7 months ago
387 - The Most Successful Gracie Fighter Of All Time, with Robert Drysdale
Not only is Robert Drysdale a BJJ and ADCC World Champion, he has also conducted extensive research into the history of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In this …
2 years, 9 months ago
386 - Seven Reasons Why Carlson Gracie Was The First Modern MMA Fighter
Episode 386
Carlson Gracie fought in 18 Vale Tudo matches, brought jiu-jitsu to the masses, and innovated many of the MMA training practices we now take for gran…
2 years, 9 months ago