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The Strenuous Life Podcast with Stephan Kesting, 450 episodes. Page 2 of 5.

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350 - "Don't Call Me Professor", Why I Don't Like Fancy Titles in Jiu-Jitsu and Martial Arts

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349 - Three Ways to Immediately Improve Your Jiu-Jitsu Defense, with Steve Kwan

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348 - Nate 'The Rock' Quarry on MMA, the UFC, and Being Raised in a Cult

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347 -Pressure Testing BJJ Against Knives, Guns and Sticks (with Burton Richardson from JKD Unlimited)

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346 - A Deep Dive into the Omoplata as Submission, a Sweep, and a Position

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345 - Out of Date Training Methods in Modern Martial Arts, with Richard Bejtlich

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344 - Reporting on the State of Jiu-Jitsu, with Averi Clements

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343 - Update: Four Weeks In After a Total Hip Replacement

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342 - Exploring the Remote Northern Wilderness with Adam Shoalts

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341 - Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Damn Hard to Disprove, with Dr Hanan Bushkin

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340 - Why I'm Getting a Hip Replacement Tomorrow...

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339 - The Five Exercises All Grapplers Should Do Every Week

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338 - An Epic Rant Against Conspiracism

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337 - Lessons from Competing in 25 Matches in 8 Divisions in 1 Tournament with Jeff Shaw

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336 - Why Some People & Groups are More Prone to Conspiracy Theories, with Julian Walker from Conspirituality

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335 - Rescuing People Trapped in Cults, Stephan Kesting with Joseph Szimhart

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334 - Ten Guru Warning Signs with Dr Dr Chris Kavanagh

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333 - Sometimes to Win the Fight You Have to Move the Fight

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332 - Trolling Anti-Vaxx Rallies, with Walter Masterson

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331 - A Gameplan for the Closed Guard with Jon Thomas

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330 - Beating BJJ Instructional Overwhelm, with Sonny Brown

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329 - How to Break into Stuntwork from Martial Arts with Steve Koepfer

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328 - The Russians Are Coming - Combat Sambo, MMA and Jiu-Jitsu with Steve Koepfer

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327 - A Revelation That's Helped Me Win More Than 10 Streetfights

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326 - Bringing Jiu-Jitsu into Public Schools, with Dom Hoskins

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325 - Wrestling with Trust, Propaganda, and Conspiracies, with Ami Palmer

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324 - Evolutionary Theory and BJJ, with Brazilian Biologist Marcio Pie

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323 - The Limits of Human Endurance with Mike McCastle

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322 - Epidemiology 101, with Colin Furness

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321 - Improving on Outdated BJJ Training Methods with Priit Mihkelson

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320 - OK, So You've Been Vaccinated, Can You Return to Training?

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319 - Strength Training for BJJ and MMA with Brandon Morgan

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318 - For the Love of Data; Risk, Science, and Who to Believe, with Nini Muñoz

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317 - Karl Gotch, the Godfather of the Japanese MMA Scene, with Tad Murphy

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316 - Dissecting the Fight or Flight Reaction, with Police Trainer Jeff Quail MSc

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315 - Gripfighting and Kuzushi, 2 Critical Skills That Almost Everyone Misses

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314 - Why Some Competitors Excel at Competition and Others Don't, with Andrew 'Goatfury' Smith

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313 - Covid Safe BJJ, Improving During Layoffs, and Tournament Strategy with Dan 'TrumpetDan' Lukeheart

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312 - Three Steps to Improve Your Post-Training Recovery

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311 - The Covid Vaccines and BJJ with Dr Chris Moriarty

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310 - Are you in a Jiu-Jitsu Cult with Matt 'Aesopian' Kirtley

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309 - Seven Ways to Make Your Leglocks More Effective

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308 - Jiu-jitsu Is The Art of Facing Challenges, with Elliott Bayev

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307 - Nazi Hippies and Authoritarian Yoga Instructors with Jules Evans

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306 - How to Talk to a Covid Denialist

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305 - 7 Mental Hacks I'm Using to Maintain Motivation in 2021

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304 - The Role of Intuition in BJJ and How to Refine It with Rob Biernacki

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303 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Professional Wresting But Were Afraid to Ask, with Tad Lincoln Murphy

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302- Debunking the Covid Myths, with Epidemiologists Dr Katrine Wallace and Madeline Lewis

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301 - Back Pain in Sport and How to Fix It, with Dr Stuart McGill

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300 - 5 Principles for Taking Risks

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299 - Division in the BJJ Community with Jamie Kilstein

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298 - Efficient Training for Competition with Brandon 'Wolverine' Mullins

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297 - Cults, Prophecies and Deprogramming Your Friends with Matthew Remski from Conspirituality.net

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296 - A People's History of BJJ, with Robert Drysdale

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295 - How to Do Long Wilderness Expeditions on the Cheap, with Frank Wolf

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294 - The Biggest Clue That It's Time to Quit Competing in Full Contact Martial Arts Like MMA, Boxing and Kickboxing

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293 - My Kung Fu Training Days...

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292 - Is It Safe to Train BJJ During Covid Yet? A Nuanced Answer...

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291 - Yoga, Meditation, and... Conspiracy Theory? With Derek Beres from the Conspirituality Podcast

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290 - Cult Behaviour in Jiu-Jitsu, with Steve Kwan from BJJ Mental Models

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289 - The Psychology of Jiu-Jitsu, with David Ley, Clinical Psychologist and BJJ Black Belt

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288 - Find a Way to Win, with Brandon 'Wolverine' Mullins

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287 - A Formula for the Butterfly Guard | Black Belt World Champion Brandon Mullins

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286 - The Fundamental Movements At The Core of Every Jiu-Jitsu Technique, with Brandon 'Wolverine' Mullins

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285 - Covid-19 Ground Zero in NYC with Medical Doctor and BJJ Black Belt Nicholas Tyau,

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284 - Why You Have to Get Super Granular and Specific to Improve

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283 - UPDATE! How to Train BJJ Safely During Covid with Dr Chris Moriarty

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282 - Disarming Your Limits with Jessica Cox

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281 - Training BJJ Outside, with Jeff Shaw

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280 - The Key Difference Between Training and Competition, with Robert Drysdale

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279 - Alone Against The North, With Adam Schoalts

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278 - BJJ Training Pods and Reasons for Hope During Coronavirus

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277 - Longevity in the Sport, with Harrison Helterbrand on The Old Rollers Podcast

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276 - Loyalty, Mental Strength, and Pressure Passing With 4 x World Champion Dominyka Obelenyte

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275 - Mask Wearing, The Spanish Flu, and the Axis from Totalitarianism to Anarchy

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274 - Train Often, Test Rarely, with Stephan Kesting

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273 - The State of the BJJ-Covid Union with Dr Chris Moriarty

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272 - How to Deal with Technique Overwhelm in BJJ

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271 - Division and Conspiracy Theory in the Jiu-Jitsu Community, with Thomas Nadelhoffer

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270 - Oleg Taktarov, the Sambo OG of the UFC

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269 - My BJJ Manifesto in 100 Words

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268 - Opening Jiu-Jitsu Up Again During Covid-19, with Dr Chris Moriarty (BJJ Black Belt and Competitor)

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267 - Joel Gerson on the Biggest Upset in Japanese Shooto History

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266 - ADCC and IBJJF World Champion Yuri Simoes on Switching to MMA

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265 - Five BJJ Training Strategies During Coronavirus Lockdown

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264 - Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life, with Jamie Kilstein

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263 - Sports Psychology for Dummies, with Dr Leif H. Smith

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262 - DON'T TRAIN. BJJ in the Era of Coronavirus

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261 - What I Learned Testing BJJ Against Multiple Attackers

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260 - Ultrarunning in the Himalayas with Scott Loughney

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259 - Elite No Gi Training and Competition with Oliver Taza

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258 - What Can Be Measured Can Be Improved - Quantification for Better Performance

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257 - Finding Your Optimal Way to Train BJJ - With Jon Thomas

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256 - Twelve Ideas To Make Your Guard Much Harder to Pass

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254 - Competitions vs Training Strategies

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253 - Training Brock Lesnar for the UFC, with Coach Greg Nelson

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252 - The Five Most Important BJJ Skills for Self Defense and Surviving Real Fights

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251 - Gameplan Development and Learning New Techniques

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250 - BJJ for Law Enforcement and Corrections with Rory Van Vliet