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Neil Adams: belief

20 Apr 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

“You know what? I realized that if I’m a miserable git, then she’ll get me into the gym.”

— Neil Adams

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Speaker
Neil Adams
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
20 Apr 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…But you’re still going at it. You’re talking about all those training sessions. Niki, your wonderful wife, told me that you were going all over from Target to Target looking for workout clothes because your luggage got lost because you had to get a workout in. You know what? I realized that if I’m a miserable git, then she’ll get me into the gym. And the thing is that I’m better if I get in there for an hour and I just do something, at least 35-40 minutes cardio. And then I do some weights and more high repetitions. It’s not so much heavy weights now, but more functional stuff. I mean, you travel all over the world for the commentary of these competitions. So is it sometimes a challenge to figure out how-…

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