Mike Rashid
Appearances
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Being in shape is loving yourself. Today is the youngest you will ever be. So start getting crazy about your nutrition, your training, your meditation, your community, all of that. Do that now. There's such a physical connection to the mind. I think if you are weak physically, you have a tendency to be weak mentally. I don't see a separation.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Indeed.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Or maybe you did. I was an entrepreneur before that. I sold medicine. that wasn't prescription, that was illegal at the time. Stuff that's actually legal now, right? But I was a street pharmacist, as they would say. I like that. With a successful enterprise, wholesaling stuff from Mexico to the East Coast, you know. But I did that for a few years and I was good at it.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So I always had, I'd never fit into like working places. I never, I wouldn't do it. I kind of respect you. And I've had jobs before where I just didn't respect the people. It's not enough money, right? So that never worked for me. I always did my own thing, right? One thing about being a black man in this country is we start out not feeling like we belong, right?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So we start out feeling like, well, this system ain't for me, so I'm going to do my own thing anyway. So I think that benefited me to a high degree because I've always done my own thing. Now, I got out of that life because it wasn't legal. And I put my energy in legal things. And supplements came up. I had a supplement company before that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
But Sean and I, me and Sean and one more partner, we met through just different industry events. And we became friends. And... One time we was, well, I watched Limitless, right? I love that movie, man. You gotta make something like that. Yeah. So we sought out to, our first product actually is called Mental Jewels. It's a nootropic.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
We just wanted to make the most powerful, the best nootropic on the market. And we did because we studied the best ones that were there at the time. And we outdid them, you know, we didn't sacrifice quality at all. It was actually, we had a lot of debate going back and forth because, you know, the ingredients that we source were very expensive.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
The testing we do is expensive, but we wanted to make it affordable for people. So it's an ultra premium product at just a premium rate.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Well, all right. My morning routine is this. I get up around 4.45, 5 o'clock. I do my morning prayer, which is called Fajr. And then after that, I sit and I go through my life list because this is a very important thing for me is to write out exactly what I want at the time. So I go through that list. It's in my head. I've written it out, but it's in my head.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I start visualizing it very specific. Amazing. Then as I begin my day, I align every decision and action with everything on that list. So from there, I'm off to the gym, train, cardio, sauna, shower. Then I'm at my office, probably at the office around 9, 9.30. And then I begin my day. Okay. But now you're ready, though.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So I love this. I eat once a day in the evening.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I ate a vegan diet for like two years. It's a few years ago, but I like meat. I do too. I tried it, but you know, it was cool. But testing blood work, you know, I was healthier. I mean, before I was eating a lot, I was 250, right? Yeah. So that, and then I went to like, I was eating meat every other day, testing blood work, and it was the same. So it wasn't like veganism made me healthier.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
It was me restricting my calories to a degree. And, you know, just a healthy lifestyle made me healthy.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And I like meat. And you cannot get the amount of quality nutrients that you can get in salmon or bison without, right? And I found that doing the vegan thing,
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And I don't approve of that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
But no, I like meat.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So do I. But anyway, so first thing I drink in the morning is a product called Nectar. It's a superfoods product. It's 13 ingredients in it. So you know when people have those little pill boxes with all the pills? We have all of that in one product that tastes really good.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Oh, see, I got you. I got a care package for you. Okay. So I do Nectar. And then while I'm training, we have a product called Hydroglyph that is a hydration product. but it's more than just hydration, right? We have amino acids in it and we have HMB in it. We have ingredients in it that, because we're big on fasting or at least intermittent fasting, and we don't want people to lose muscle mass.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So it's preserving muscle mass. It's increasing muscle protein synthesis and hydrating you to a high degree and kind of like keeping the hunger off. So I do that. Train, train, train. And then at the office, I'll have a shake. We have the top plant-based protein in the country. Right on. Yeah, so I have a glass of plantain. I just drink it with water because it tastes that good.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And as I'm starting my day, I'm sipping on mental juice, which is the nootropic. Okay. Right.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I had a company before. It was a way smaller company. Wasn't this level of quality as far as what we had because I didn't have a team like that. But it did me well financially. But it wasn't like a legacy thing. you know, we were limited in what we had access to at the time.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So when I got, you know, you just get with people who have different expertise and we put our brains together, you know, cause that was just me back then. So with Ambrosia, we took it to a whole nother level. So yeah, this is like the first big real thing. This is my passion. This is a passion project that actually ended up becoming very lucrative and became a big company.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
We didn't expect that at all. We just didn't want to lose money. You know?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So it's a thing. It's his own ecosystem.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I mean, we have a lot of different sales channels. Online, Amazon, Vitamin Shop, Sprouts, GNC, Hy-Vee. a lot we're everywhere okay yeah ambrosia collective so is is we uh it's just moving rapidly right and um it's not like we have this over the top uh marketing uh uh um strategies people love the product
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And see, I'm glad that we're here, like we're sitting in council with each other because the spirit of our company is like biohacking, right?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
We were some of the first people in our space talking about biohacking and we got a lot of flack for it, right? Oh, trust me.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I was a complete charlatan. Well, we don't care. So- And our people see that we're in this for, like, real optimization of health, right? Our products are very hard to sell because there's a lot of explaining. You know what I mean? But we figured out how to deliver these messages to people, letting them know exactly how effective this is and, you know, how to optimize yourself properly.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah, well, I'm from Brooklyn, New York, and I grew up in the 80s. So we like to call it the cocaine 80s.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
100%.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Well, there's proof to what you're saying. There's people like Floyd Mayweather. There's people, there's many big name celebrities that have tried to come up with supplements and products and no one cared because they could tell there's no passion in it. There's no authenticity. Correct.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
There you go. So, you know, as you can imagine, it was a very truculent time, right? Very volatile times. And... I'm talking about, it was infestation of crack in our community, especially my neighborhood, especially my house, because my stepfather was one of the biggest drug dealers in New York. So our house corrupted our entire area. Literally, I lived there. Yeah, so I seen a lot.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Trying, trying, trying with so many different things for so long. And then with Trifecta, he did a grand slam. So it was the first, like... I guess you, I don't want to say gourmet, but maybe gourmet style of meal prep delivery, like really premium options, grass-fed, farm, you know, not farm-raised, organic, you know, and delivered in 24 hours, fresh, not frozen. And it just went crazy.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I was the very first check on the company. Yeah. That's great. And it's a $300 million company now. Wow. Yeah. Things worked out. That's awesome, man.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Spend our 10 grand in there, right?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
They're really good meals. Oh yeah, for sure.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You know, that Ferrari is not going to serve your cellular biology. I get it. No, I get it. But speaking about community, because you brought that up and it's interesting because we started an official community called the Sacred Society last year and I fell in love with it. I fell in love with the interaction with the people, right?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
um there's no barrier between them and i so in every week you know i'm i prepare a lecture and i'm with them every week i don't miss and you're intentional about preparing i love it it's my favorite part of the week every thursday is a really busy day for me every thursday because that's when i'm all in with the community but i'm preparing for it throughout the week with all the other things going on and it's the most uh
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
When your mind is healthy, you're going to define what success is and you're going to have success.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I mean, just going back and forth with them and then, you know, having accountability calls with them individually is just so rewarding, right? And I think this falls into that Maslow's hierarchy. It needs that self-actualization. It's like, this is what I'm here for. It's not the car. Look, I've been through all of that. Buying the cars, you know, all of the things.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
That is meaningless to me, right? this is what I love. Yeah. All right.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
We had, I mean, we had multiple houses on that block. We owned stores around the corner and we had a mansion in Long Island. So I was it was like a movie, you know, and I've seen a lot of things that a kid probably shouldn't see. However, I am thankful of some of the things that I experienced because none of it broke me. I'm still here and my mind is intact.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I love sitting in the trenches with them. trying to figure out the problems. Let's come up with a solution. You got this. And sometimes it's just a little bit of encouragement, right? Nah, but you got, I'm certain you got this, right? Because, you know, people have been programmed a bad program most of their lives.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And they don't, they typically never had somebody sitting with them like, hey, you fucking up right now. Let's fix this. I'm not, I'm here with you. We're going to fix this. They don't really have that from someone that really gives a shit about them. You know what I mean? So- And the programming in this country is bad.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I always tell people, divorce yourself from this culture because it's not conducive to a good life, right? It's conducive to stifling your creativity, your real power. But we got so much, people got so much power, so incredible. We were just talking earlier about technology like TVs and cell phones. This came from a human mind. So I look at my community, I'm like, look, people like y'all did this.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
What you gonna do? You know what I mean? So, but people don't grow up thinking these things. Just like I look at my daughter and I try to learn from her, right? because she has a robust, fertile imagination, right? Whereas as an adult, we have this stringent, that's not rational.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
But we got to like devoid ourselves of that to a degree and have that, adults need to think like children with a lot of things, limitless, right? Yeah. we can do anything, I can do anything, right? And then we'll add a little discipline to it when we're starting to formulate these ideas, but we gotta think creatively like children.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And it's interesting because not to get off subject, but like you look at like things like religion, when they teach you like original sin, you're born sinners. I'm like, no. The closest thing to divinity is a child, is a baby. They're pure, they're perfect, they're holy. So stop telling people that. Stop programming people that they're born bad. People learn bad.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
People are born pure and holy, right? And it's our duty to protect them and keep them like that as long as possible and to try to be like them as well. That's how you really tap into that God energy.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Honestly, I think I have somewhat of a stronger mind for the fact that I did experience so many not so ideal things and figured it out. So, you know, I was exposed to a lot, you know, and we were rich. And then he died and then we were poor. So financially poor.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Well, right now I'm in the process of building a compound in Dubai, right? Moving the family there, but also growing the Ambrosia Collective to a higher degree, as well as Sacred Society. Me being in different markets is going to open me up to just more people, more opportunities.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So that's part of it, but also I've moved into the peptide space as well.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah, so just expanding in things, all things wellness, all things biohacking, all things optimizing one's complete being. You mentioned something earlier that I wanted to touch on about the physical and the mental. I don't see a separation. It's all here, right? So in one thing leads the other, they benefit each other, right?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So start, and the foundation is going to be physical fitness training and nutrition off the top. It has to be.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And I was talking to the community last night because we were talking about success. And I'm like, listen, when your mind is healthy, you're going to be successful because you will define what success is. Y'all right now, y'all looking at Instagram for success. People with cars and this, when your mind is healthy, you're going to define what success is and you're going to have success.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You'll be successful. So that's what I'm on, right? I'm on, I used to be the guy that wanted to like,
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
have every single car do this do that whatever i have zero regards for any of that now right um i'm i'm trying to fortify myself spiritually um fortify my my relationships with the people that i love because really that's all that i care about yeah people i love and from there it goes to the community and everything else so you know i'm walking this life you know really
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
with my eyes closed filling the walls because I'm moving into new spaces right now and I'm excited about it.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah, I am a Muslim. And when I said earlier, I've been working on fortifying myself spiritually. That's just me rededicating myself to my faith, my religion.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
um because the principles of my religion it just aligns with me perfectly right you know praying five times a day uh fasting in the holy month of ramadan you know just me actively trying to be a nicer person to people and more charitable in regards to everyone that i deal with so so that's that's that is my faith right um i'm not a person of belief because I'd rather know things, right?
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Whereas a belief is one attaching themselves to a notion or idea without really having evidence, right? Or I'm all right with saying I don't understand or I don't get it. I don't know. But I'd rather know what I attach myself to, you know? And, you know, I put a lot on me, like, I put the responsibility of me having a life that I want to have on myself. Right. You know? Yeah.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Well, this was my stepfather.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So we were talking about prayer earlier on the drive up here. And I appreciate him so much. He's my guy. Because we always have... fruitful conversations, you know, when we have a minute, you know, a drive or sauna or something like that. And I always get so much from it, but we were talking and we get to like really hash out thoughts and ideas. You know what I mean? Just flesh them out.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
It ended. I mean, you live by the sword, you die by the sword. He died by the sword. He definitely lived by the sword. So he died by the sword, you know, and the whole empire collapsed like that. Like that. Because when you're living that kind of life... Sometimes some people can transition out of it, but a lot of times people are just spending as fast as they're getting.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You might have a notion of something, but sometimes you need to bounce it off somebody like that. And that's what Sean is for me.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So that's- I got a question for you, or this is fascinating to me.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
your ascension into this career right it was insurance correct and you were identifying all right these people are not going to live but so long and you said you know what we need to like let people know so you broke away from the insurance company to start doing what you're doing now that's right i think that's incredible thank you because that doesn't sound like a money play
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
There's no real infrastructure set up. There's no, you know, they're not parlaying that into legitimate businesses. So it fell fast and we had to deal with that. So that was interesting. But one thing about us as human beings is we are successful as a species because we're so resilient, you know? Excuse me, I used to have a driver to school, right?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Thank you. That's kind of you, man. And it doesn't surprise, it's like no shit. No shit, you wasn't stressed.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Right, right. Yeah. I love that episode with you and Russell Brand. That was so good. Yes. Yeah. It was. That was so good.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Wait, did I say his name right?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Russell Brand. Yeah.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
A wise man once said, I'd rather die enormous than live dormant. Yeah. You know, I get it. I get it. I'd rather go out in a blaze of fire than just have this long, mundane, boring existence. Four year career. Yeah.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I went from that to like nothing, to real poverty. And I was fine. Like, I don't recall my childhood being of lack, even though we didn't have, even though we had nights where, you know, my mother had to light candles for lights, right? She had to hold me on the couch because she's scared and I'm scared and we don't have any power or the power will go out. It's cold, right?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
No, not that.
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Adults need to think like children with a lot of things. Limitless. We can do anything. And then we'll add a little discipline to it when we're starting to formulate these ideas. But we got to think creatively like children. You care for yourself.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I'm going to that side of the world to not arm up.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And I don't like it. I don't like this. There's nothing for me here. I think this is a great nation. Great, not good. We live in a world in which you can't criticize anything, especially the system in which is enslaving people like capitalism. It's run amok. How is it that the number one killer in this country is food? Yes.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
If food is a bullet, the gun is heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. And the finger pulling it is food, right? Yes. So it's so crazy. We've weaponized and turned food into a drug. We absolutely have, man. You are preaching. Alcohol is legal. Cigarettes is legal. It's like, what are we really talking about? Yeah. You know, there's capitalism and politics, lobbying candidates.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
There's capitalism and, you know, the criminal justice, the criminal system, no justice, right?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
It's capitalism and education. Like, what are we really doing? When you're 18, you're getting credit card offers. What are we doing? So I don't want nothing here. I'm good. I'm good.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So, but none of that is not, it wasn't a sad childhood, you know? There's a lot of things that happened, but.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And community. Friendships. Yeah. They don't talk about that. That should be medicine. It's like music is medicine, right? Yeah. You know, it's like... medicine to them is only what they could put in a bottle and charge you every 30 days, what you're going to run out of every 30 days. So in 2020, I experimented with LSD, psychedelics, right? I'm not a drug guy, and I never did drugs all my life.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I did it at that little period of time, but I did a lot of research before trying it, right? And, you know, the research... that I saw and based on my experience, my very first experience with it, I got angry at the government for lying. They had this as a schedule one drug, highly addictive, no therapeutic or medicinal benefits. What do you talk? It's not addictive at all.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
The therapy is... It was created for therapy, for one, right? It was created to get people off of illicit drugs, alcohol, smoking, so on and so forth. It also was created for people who...
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
you know the pharmaceutical medication for depression and anxiety and so on and so forth wasn't working so you did two days of intensive therapy with that two heroic doses back to back no symptoms for six months right now i wasn't depressed or anything like that but when i did my journey I was just a nicer person for a minute. Like I was a lot lighter, a lot brighter.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And there's nothing in it made me want to keep doing it. You know what I mean? You weren't addicted to that. It's been years.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I had love. My sister, who's like my best friend. Right on. My mother was such a powerful person, you know? Man, I miss her. She passed away or ascended last year, but she gave me so much, so much love. And my mother, she dealt with a lot, a lot of life, a lot of unideal situations that had nothing to do with her. Her circumstances were shitty out the gate from her parents, you know?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I want to touch on something that you spoke about, though, because the skeptic in me cannot just let this slide about our government, right? Make America healthy. That sounds great.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Everything they always say sounds great. And I have to look at the leadership. Y'all are fat. Y'all are overweight. Y'all are stressed. Y'all don't... No, Bobby Kennedy's pretty fit. Okay. He's the only one. But it's like these people are not... involved in anything of a spiritual nature, it doesn't seem. You know, it seems power, money, aggression. So it's like, they say these things.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I want people to, look, I'm not a political guy at all. I don't care who's whatever. But don't wait on them and don't rely on them. We should be doing these things already, regardless. I don't care if they're, them saying it is cool, but as far as like anybody I know, this is welcome to the party. You know what I'm saying?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Like no shit, right? So people, you know, dig in. Today is the youngest you will ever be. So start getting crazy about your nutrition, your training. your meditation your community all that do that now i agree don't wait right so yeah i'm not waiting on no initiatives from anybody from yeah It's just, to me, it's just like... I'm not waiting either. They sound good. They got to say these things.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
What would that look like, though, the public policy side of this kind of lifestyle change?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So, you know, what I observed from that to what I went through and then the love that I did experience from what she was able to give me, but my grandparents and so on and so forth, it just made me who I am today. I'm an accumulation of all of those things. So, you know, I overly love my children just like anybody does, but I'll do it.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
eulogy virtues uh when when when the sun sets on this lifetime you know what do you want people to say about you and what kind of impact we're going to make and so i want to do everything i can i disagree with you on one thing okay your message is getting downstream right so it's just a matter of time before things hit a tipping point for anybody right but
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
That if it hits a tipping point or not, that's not important. What's important is, listen, I learned about this hydrogen water at Dave by the owner of my kid's school at his house. That's you. This is your thing, right? Yeah. So, you know, the message is there. You're effective is getting out. Now, when it comes to policy, I just have a hard time believing that they're going to
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Deny these billions of dollars or these hundreds of millions of dollars from Big Pharma from who helped them get to where they are now. And let's not get it twisted. Both sides, the Republican and Democrat is two wings on the same bird. Their daddies are the same people on both sides. It's just whoever wins. Now, you know, that's the gateway for democracy. business for these entities.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So I just want people to have a realistic expectation about what's to come. Don't be bummed out if nothing changes. Because for things to change, that means a lot of people are not going to be making money, right? And they don't play about their money. You know what I mean? These big level billionaires, these industry, the cigarette industry, the food industry, they don't play about their money.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I have three. Okay. So, so yeah. So, and that's like, that's my life is them. Everything, every decision I make is based on them, right? It's positioning them to be happy and independent people in this, in this world.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So I don't see that like anybody shutting any of that down, you know?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Well, I think that is the way that messages, that's the only way is tapping the masses.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Correct, correct. And making our impact. You was on the biggest media outlet there is, is Joe Rogan. Yeah. You know what I mean? That was amazing. So, yeah, so this is mainstream media. Social media is the new media. We should stop taking the social. We should take the social off of it. Just call the media. I mean, look at every news, boring news dude. They got a little YouTube thing now.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You can check out our YouTube thing. You know what I'm saying?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
That's the beauty of it. All right, Gary, what do you think about this? Here's the thing. People are consuming information whether it seems meaningful or not, a lot of it is just entertainment to them, right? Even if it's, I know people that study for years, whatever, you pick a thing and they're not gonna execute, they're just gonna keep watching podcasts on that particular topic, right?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So we were talking about this the other day, like, it just seemed like nothing matters because if a person has a specific bias towards or against something, all the logic and rationale in the world is not going to change their mind. And who cares? They don't care. They don't care about the truth, right? They don't want to hear your evidence.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
19, my son, Elijah. Kaya is 18. She just turned 18. And Ivy is my baby girl. She's nine. She's about to be 10. You look too young to have a 19-year-old. They say black don't crack. They say black don't crack. Yeah, they don't, man. They don't. The dark skin, man, you guys. But I'm tapping into my ultimate human, so, you know.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
If you present very compelling evidence, well, I don't trust that source, right? So it's like, it's kind of like disheartening to even try to have some of these discussions in the macro. Because it seems like people just, I don't know, maybe it's so much information, right? Information overload to where people are desensitized to things.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I mean, listen, we had like a couple of weeks of congressional hearings about aliens and nobody cares.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
It's like, wait, wait, wait, wait. Non-human biological, even if it's bullshit, let's get to the bottom of this, right? Nobody gives a shit. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, I'm like, look, I'm blown away about so many things, but it's like, we can't have these conversations because nobody cares.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I'm not saying that that's... I'm... My heels are dug in to do the work. I'm here for it. You know, it's just a little bit disheartening. That's all I'm saying. You know how aloof it seems some people are. You want to shake them. And not caring. Right. You know, so that's all. You know, it's just like... Yeah, I want to shake people every now and then.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
thanks to people like you with the research, I'm able to like walk in, you know, the pathway of, you know, biohacking and trying to reverse aging to a degree.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah. Well, you know what that is? Sigmund Freud called that slave morality versus master morality, right? So if you look at it, so one who embodies the master morality- I forgot who's interviewing who, but this is going really well. One who embodies a master morality, you know, they're confident, they're shooting for the stars, so on and so forth.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
These are the leaders and the kings and the entrepreneurs and people who are shifting society. And then the slave morality is this. Now, there's two types of master moralities, though. There's one that keep the slave morality, slave mentality. They keep them there. What they do is they peddle division. They peddle fear. They peddle, you'll never be anything.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You're a sinner, like that kind of energy, right? Then you have another master morality where I think I fall under where we're trying to educate those who have a slave morality to get out of that, right? You know, there is no, so one with a slave morality, with a true slave morality, they find oppression to be where the ethics are, right? It's like, They stand against, they stand for nothing.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
They stand against everything, right? So anybody that's rich, that's powerful, they're evil. They're bad, right? Yeah. So, and they don't look at themselves, they believe things like, I think it's a quote in the culture of Christianity, because it's not real Christianity. They say it's easier to go through the eye of, for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Why? Why? Who came up with that? It's nonsense, right? So if a person is oppressed, if a person is oppressed, that is a temporary condition. Let's get out of that. Let's get out of that. We're not sitting here. It's temporary. And that right there should fuel you to be successful, fuel you to be great, to never be there again. So the one who embodies a slave morality, everything is evil, right?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And they ain't even going to try. Right. And, um, you know, you gotta like look at life for what it is. Like, it's like, we all want the same things, but y'all are acting like y'all hate it on this side because you're not here, but you're not here yet. You can get here if you try.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Don't hate me. Ask me questions. Exactly.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And there's so much beauty in the grind to the top. Yeah.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
That's testing your mettle. Yeah. It's like, we're supposed to go through this.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I look at life like this. Anything of character, friendship or whatever, is for those hard times. I'm sitting here patiently for the day that one of my friends need a kidney. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I got it. I can't wait to show you or whomever. Listen, character is developed in hard times. When everything is good, the money's up, everybody's happy, it's easy to be a nice person then.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
How are you going to act when you're being attacked from all areas, right? How are you going to act when you lose your job, lose your girlfriend, whatever, right? So that's when you have to develop and display character.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
and that's when it matters not when everything is smooth and copacetic and people gotta understand that and get fired up when those hard times come like all right now i'm gonna step it up this is my time to shine yeah i love that man so um this has been amazing by the way much much better than i even thought because i like to get philosophical on things but um
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Ultimate human is to be a God of oneself, right? So if I am my own God, that means I am in control of my destiny in a real way, right? So I can't blame anything or anybody on my shortcomings, right? Because once I blame them, then they control me.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And I'll never do that. But I don't have shortcomings because I don't get sick. I don't lose. All of the negative things does not apply to me. Why? Because I create my own reality. And that's what gods do. They create things, right?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
all existence is only in existence because we are conscious of it that means we create our reality okay when you start looking deeper into things consciousness is the precursor to creation to all things if someone's behind you making faces at you and you don't know it they're not there it's not a reality of yours right so i am my own god so i control everything
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
in my existence, my health, my finances, my mindset, my everything, look, my destiny is based on the decisions that I make. So that's being the ultimate and also being an ultimate is this, I know that there's a day that's going to come when this is not going to be any use anymore. So what does that mean? I'm going to go hard to the fucking paint until I get there.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I'm maxing out. I'm maxing out. I'd rather die at 50 as a legend than to be 100, this boring old man, like nothing about him.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So I tell my people like, yo, when I get to a certain point when I'm not useful, take me out to the desert and die.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
You know what I'm saying? So that's maxing out. Like understanding that death, like what we call death, I don't even think that's a bad thing. But the word is death. We have to name things, right? Should be a motivator to live to the fullest every fucking day.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So max it out. Be ultimate.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
It's really interesting. It's somewhat of a paradox because, I mean, my mother was married to this guy. However, my mother protected me from everything, right? So when he died, we had a period when we went to Florida for a while. And it was just as bad there where we was at a place called Sanford, Florida. And it was just, put it like this. There was, this is crazy. It was in the projects.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Every day you see like white pickup trucks in the neighborhood talking to women that work, that live there, right? And you know who these guys were? They were white guys. They were insurance salesmen. Because people was like young men, boys was getting killed so much. It was just, it was a big hustle selling insurance to mothers. That's a fact.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I have a mentorship community and the foundation is training. It's about more than that, but that's the first. Listen.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Life insurance, yeah. Wow. It was so common, right? So think about this. One situation, there was a guy in our hood named Killer, right? He killed one of our friends. He was older than us. Nobody came and arrested him. A week later, he's trying to play basketball with us, and we're scared to death.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
That's the kind of environment that that was. However, so my mother, she went down there. She cleaned her life up.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
got educated got a degree and started her own home health care business in nursing and she would just she would take me with her so when i'm not in school i would be with her at her clients or patients homes or whatever and i would just be with her at all times versus being back at home and being outside and being in the riffraff so
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
My mother, she, you know, I have a little brother as well with 10 years apart. She didn't have the same energy with him because she was older, but she had enough in her to protect me from a lot of that, from most of it, honestly. So, and I have to say that I did have, despite those things, you know, because after that little period, I stayed with my grandparents who were stable.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
This is in New York. private school, like the whole nine, I had a good upbringing. It was just some hiccups, but that's life. That happens. I had a good upbringing. It was very dynamic. It's very dynamic. Very dynamic.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Right? Yeah. And, you know, I got into some trouble, but that was as an adult, right? But as a child it was, you know, we got through the rough stuff, but it was smooth. And I think, like, there's nothing that I've ever faced that was that crazy, right? Maybe to somebody else, but to me I'm like, let's go. I'm going to eat it up.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And I think maybe because I went through or seen so many – scary things as a child. It's like, I'm with all the smoke.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
All right, so first of all, in New York, where I lived at, I have friends that was probably better athletes than you'll ever see on TV. It's just the lives were not ideal to go the routes to get put on. So we lived in a very competitive area. We played every sport outside in the snow. You know what I mean? So you grow up being really athletic. You have to be to get noticed.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
In a place like Brooklyn, especially when I was growing up, I think New York City is small. It's tiny, but it's a lot of people. So it's overcrowded. And a lot of competition. Everything is competition, literally. So I grew up extremely competitive. And I also grew up in an era of He-Man, G.I. Joe, Mr. T, like WWF. So did I. Incredible Hulk.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Yeah, so I wanted to be big and strong like what I saw on TV. And I was fixated on being strong and being fat, like just fit. I never thought about looks because when I started getting into, I guess, training, I was 12, 11 or 12. Oh, okay. So I wasn't thinking about how I looked. I was just trying to be strong, right? Right. So I just had that mentality.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
And my father got me into boxing at a very young age. And that was, like, all I needed. I played basketball, baseball. And I box and I love boxing the most because it was all on me. You know, like I played baseball. I was really good, but our team lost every game. I didn't like that.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
So boxing, if you lose is your fault. Yeah. But if you win is your glory. So that was like the ultimate competitive sport for me. And so how much time were you, I mean, were you like a gym rat? Were you? Were you in it? All my life. I've been a gym guy since I was 11 or 12 years old.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Which I echo exactly what you said. Yeah. This is my brother right here, Sean. Everyone in my circle is the same. The morning, we got to get it. Look, I have a community. I have a mentorship community, and the foundation is training. I kick people out in a certain amount of time. They're not getting in better shape. It's about more than that, but that's the first. Listen, if I go to church, right?
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
and I'm auditing different churches and I see the pastors, right? And you're supposed to be living by these seven deadly sins, right? Adhering to the gospel. I don't know what you're doing behind closed doors. I just got to go watch telling me, but I can see that you're overweight. I can see that you're a glutton. I would think that that's the easiest thing to hide to not be because we see you.
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
I can't trust you, right? So I feel like that's just a foundation. Like being in shape is loving yourself, right? you cannot properly love other people if you don't love yourself yes just being selfish by being you know dedicating your mornings to yourself i don't see that as a problem at all one of my favorite biohacks outside of breathwork by far is mineral salts baja gold sea salt it's got
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139. Mike Rashid: Why This Fitness Icon Trains at 5 AM & Fasts All Day To Achieve Peak Performance
Thank you. Thanks for having me.