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The Strenuous Life Podcast with Stephan Kesting, 450 episodes. Page 3 of 5.

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249 - 3 Strategies to Break Through Sticking Points in 2020

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248 - On the value of BJJ Competition, with Thomas Lisboa

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247 - The Range Battles Within Guard That Determine Success or Failure

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246 - The Four Coaches a Modern Martial Artist Needs

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245 - Can You Crosstrain in BJJ and Traditional Martial Arts At the Same Time?

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244 - The 10 Most Nutritious Foods, with Nick Hiebert from The Nutrivore

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243 - If I Don't Know, I Won't Allow! A Strategy for When Things Get SERIOUS on the Mat

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242 - A Roadmap for BJJ, the Complete Audiobook (Free)

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241 - Boxing vs BJJ in a Fight (plus Stephan's Epic Rant on Self Defense)

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240 - Pain is a Universal Language, with Endurance Athlete Mike McCastle

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239 - On Being Willing to Die in the Ring with Tristan Connelly, UFC Fighter

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238 - Best Tips for Starting to Spar Full Contact

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237 - Survive First and Win Later - Timeless Jiu-Jitsu Wisdom

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236 - The Mad Scientist of Strength, Chris Duffin

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235 - Training Doesn't Make You Stronger; It's All In the Recovery Stupid!

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235 - Training Doesn't Make You Stronger; It's the Recovery Stupid!

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234 - How to Get More Submissions with Rob Biernacki

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233 - Breathing Your Way Through Cancer and Other Emergencies with Jessica Huneycutt

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232 - One Thing to Do Right Now So You'll Still Be Training in 10 Years

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231 - No Days Off! (Or Should You Train Everyday?)

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230 - BJJ after 50 with the Black Belt Wrassling Rabbi Mordecai Finley

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229 - The Filipino Martial Arts, Self Defense and Jarlo Ilano

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228 - Patience vs Speed of Implementation for Achieving Giant Dreams

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227 - A Scary Bear Encounter

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226 - 7 Tips For Maintaining Motivation

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225 - The Key to Pushing Yourself Harder

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224 - Never Stop Thinking, Even When You're Only Slogging Through a Lake

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223 - Why Go Alone?

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222 - The Realities of Wilderness Travel

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221 - Brazil, BJJ and MMA with Jeff Meszaros

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220 - What People Misunderstand About Following Your Dreams

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219 - The Most Dangerous Part of MMA

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218 - One Easy Way to GUARANTEE Failure!

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217 - Why I'm Planning to do a 1,000 Mile Trip in the Arctic by Myself this Summer

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216 - How to Find a Good School to Train At

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215 - Making Jiu Jitsu Smooth with Brandon "Wolverine" Mullins

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216 - Aikido vs BJJ with Roy Dean

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214 - Why You MUST Regularly Calibrate Your Skills Against People Better Than You!

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213 - How I Survived a Kidney Transplant and Came Back Stronger

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212 - Scotty Nelson, the Original Gangster of Online BJJ Resources

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211 - Discipline and Leveraging the 'Have To' State with Brett Piperni

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210 - It's the Ego, Stupid! How My Last BJJ Injury Was Totally Preventable

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209 - Fighting Through Injury to Win Pan Am Gold with Vanessa Wexler

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208 - Should Martial Artists Condition Their Knuckles?

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207 - Monty Collier, Technical Judo Instructor for John Wick 3

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206 - One-Armed BJJ, with Para-Athlete and Competitor Jess Munster

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205 - Coaching Lethwei, The Baddest Martial Art on the Planet, with Patrick Marcil

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204 - Mental Jiu-jitsu Breakthroughs with Tarsis Humphreys

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203 - How to Become More Comfortable in No Gi Grappling

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202 - What to Do When You're Just Not Getting Better at BJJ

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201 - Kathy Hubble, Judo Champion and Professional Stuntwoman

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200 - Three Ways to Turn On Aggression in BJJ Matches

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199 - Jamie Flynn, British Special Forces Operator, Base Jumper, Wingsuit Pilot and Bodyguard

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198 - What It Really Takes to Be an "Overnight Success" (a Rant)

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197 - Reaching The State of 'Flow' in Martial Arts

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196 - Fitness, BJJ and Depression with Liz Beaver

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195 - Guard Passing Strategies and Tactics with Fabio Gurgel

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194 -Fighting in the Octagon and the Battle Within with Eliot Marshall

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193 - Sport-Specific Conditioning with Red Sullivan

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192 - Three Key Steps to Successfully Sweeping and Submitting from Guard

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191 - When Strongman Training and BJJ Collide, with The Raspberry Ape, Daniel Strauss

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190 - Neck Health with UFC Fighter, Mathematician and Osteopath Rosi Sexton

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189 - Grappling Dummies and Other Tips to Train When You Can't Make It to Class

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188 - The Philosophy of Sport with Daniel 'Philosograppler' Bohigian

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187 - "In Volume We Trust" - Lessons from Ironman for BJJ, with Paul Kindzia

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186 - Attacked in the Street: Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt Adam Nadow on his Viral Streetfight Video

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185 - Training Predictions for the New Year; In 2019 You'll Be BOTH the Hammer AND the Nail!

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184 - Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation

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183 - Canoeing Wild Rivers with Cliff Jacobson

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182 - Training and Rehab for Stretching the Envelope with Dr Mark Cheng

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181 - Why is Sparring so Hard, and How Can You Do It Safely?

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180 - When Should MMA Fighters Retire?

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179 - Dietary Experiments Gone Bad, and Near Death on the Ketogenic Diet

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178 - The 5 Ranges Every Martial Artist Should Be Familiar With

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177 - Mental and Physical Training for Championship Wrestling, with Nick Ugoalah

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176 - Guard Passing Strategies in BJJ with Stephan Kesting and Rob Biernacki

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175 - That Technique Used to Work Great, So Why Did You Stop Using It?

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174 - Why Jiu-Jitsu is Best for Self Defense: Stephan on The Great Flip Podcast

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173 - Self Experimentation, Ketosis and Crazy Chicks

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172 - Martial Arts Frauds and Other Buffoons with McDojoLife

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171 - The Best Way to Train Those Super-Deadly Techniques for Self Defense

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170 - Why People Want to Believe Crazy Things, with the Genetically Modified Skeptic.

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169 - Kata Is Useless for Combat, Prove Me Wrong, with Iain Abernathy

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168 - Leadership When All Hell is Breaking Loose

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167 - Navy Seal Sniper JP Dinnell on Taking Action and Making It Happen

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166 - Fabio Gurgel on What Makes a World Champion, Fighting NHB in Brazil, and Why BJJ Right Now is the Best Ever!

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165 - How to Deal with Fear and Doubt with Ando Mierzwa

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164 - Ice Climbing Niagara Falls in Winter with Will Gadd

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163 - How to Cut Weight Safely with Ben Zhuang

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162 - Broken Bones, Concussions and Full Contact Jousting with Shane Adams

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161 - Sim Go and the Legacy of the Renegade 'Cobra Kai' Club in BJJ

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160 - Old School BJJ in the Early Days of the UFC with Andreh Anderson

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159 - Seph Smith on BJJ, Combat Sambo, and Competition Mindset

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158 - Are Kung Fu Forms and Karate Kata Useful for Fighting?

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157 - My Single Biggest Problem with Crossfit

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156 - Survivorman Les Stroud

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155 - Walking the Tightrope Between Training and Recovery

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154 - What Makes Good Students, Teachers and BJJ Schools? Interview with Emily Kwok

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153 - Microdrilling to Improve Your BJJ Almost Instantly

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152 - Controlling the Adrenaline Dump with Shane Fazen from Fight Tips