Brian Strauser – LIVETHEFUEL

290: Wilderness 101 Adventures, FATDOC Review, and Pop-Tarts Suck!

Scott Mulvaney — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Pop-Tarts suck, Wilderness 101 is no joke, and the FATDOC film review with Brian Strauser:

Brian Strauser of the Strauser Project returns to discuss his Wilderness 101 race training and his review of the new release of the FATDOC aka FAT: a documentary film release from Vinnie Tortorich, Peter Pardini, and Serena Scott Thomas.

The Strauser Project is stepping up for the younger generation and others, blazing out a trail for others to follow. Brian is a guy with tremendous heart and wears his emotions on his sleeve… along with a few tattoos too!

Quote: Pop-Tarts Suck – Brian Strauser

Top 3 Hot Points:

Wilderness 101 aka the W101 Race is Insane!
Watch the FAT: a documentary film aka FATDOC
Pop-Tarts Suck!

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On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”10:00″] You can’t even explain this to people that haven’t experienced the Wilderness 101 and actually have done it or been there. It was amazing the amount of climbing just to get up to the top of that day.
[spp-timestamp time=”20:00″] I think a Specialized fat bike came in and it was like 13 hours or there’s like 12 hours and 50 some minutes. He comes rolling in on his fat bike and that’s just insanity!
[spp-timestamp time=”30:00″] Most people that don’t race or haven’t put themselves through this type of thing, don’t understand that getting sweaty is a challenge. What people don’t understand is when you’re wet and your equipment is rubbing back and forth on your legs, you might as well have 100 grit sandpaper. You’ll get Rashed beyond belief or bleed in places just like runners have happened, where their nipples are bleeding just from their shirt rubbing.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:00″] The government and these people are supposed to be watching after us and taking care of us. Like everything else, it’s more about the money and all the bullshit. Ever since I had this little girl, as a baby and watching her grow up, I now get more involved with the worrying about the types of stuff that I’m putting in her mouth.
[spp-timestamp time=”50:00″] So much of it goes back to diet, that’s what fuels us, it’s what makes us what we are. If you’re not putting the right things in and instead of putting chemicals and all of the sprays and the stuff that goes into manufactured foods.
[spp-timestamp time=”54:00″] It’s hard to wrap your brain around it and think that some guy is trying to screw you over by selling me a pop-tart, well that can’t be that bad. Well, it is that bad, Pop-Tarts Suck!
[spp-timestamp time=”56:00″] Final Words

Final Words:

The biggest thing I would say to anybody is to keep an open mind. This has been an awesome ride ever since I met you a number of years ago. I think it’s been three to four years ago now. Ever since I went out and suffered in the woods and it was a little bit of comfort there too. While I was standing underneath that bridge, watching you pull up in the middle of the W101 and knowing that I just put you through that pain and suffering. Part of that was pretty exciting. But the one thing that all of this stuff has kind of done for me is open my eyes to just being more open to different things. You know, I never was into this type of stuff. I’ve now read more books in the past four years than I probably read in the past 40.

It’s been a blast. You know, anybody watching in this stuff, check out this FATDOC, it was a great story. I told my wife as soon as I watched it and said something to her. I don’t care if I gotta put my family in a car, go to Staten Island to visit with one of her family members, I’ll put it on in my truck so nobody can get away from it. They’re just gonna listen to it because it’s amazing information that’s out there now. Somebody can definitely get something from it. It’s not stuff that I would have been following in the past and it’s definitely things that I’ve been opened up to more recently. It’s just been a great ride to learn all this stuff.

Influencers Mentioned:

Vinnie Tortorich

Resources:

The Strauser Project on Facebook
Leesburg Bakers Dozen Race on BikeReg
Wilderness 101 Race July 20, 2019 (on BikeReg)
My Strava feed from W101:
https://www.strava.com/activities/2549034403
2019 W101 race results:
http://www.mtntouring.com/mountain/htm/wilderness_101/W101-results/w101-2019-results-ultra-overall.pdf
NUE Overview of W101:
http://nuemtb.com/series/wilderness-101-ultra-endurance-mountainbike-race
Past W101 Race Course info:
http://www.mtntouring.com/mountain/htm/wilderness_101/w101_course.htm
Mountain Touring Overview of W101:
http://www.mountaintouring.com/htm/wilderness_101/w101_body.htm

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Action Steps:

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274: The Struggle is Real & Wilderness 101 MTB Race with Brian Strauser

Scott Mulvaney — Tue, 21 May 2019 13:00:00 +0000

The Strauser Project Returns on the Bakers Dozen Race, Wilderness 101 Training Updates, and The Struggle is Real gang!

Brian Strauser of the Strauser Project returns to discuss his Wilderness 101 race training. He recently attended the Leesburg Bakers Dozen mountain biking race in Virginia.

Quote: Keep a perspective out there, keep your head up, and when shit happens, know you can get around it. ~ Brian Strauser

Brian Strauser of The Strauser Project is stepping up for the younger generation and others, blazing out a trail for others to follow. Brian is a guy with tremendous heart and wears his emotions on his sleeve… along with a few tattoos too!

Top 3 Hot Points:

Training and Challenges
Listening to Loved Ones
Announcing FUEL Foundations

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Resources:

Past Appearances:

Final Words:

It’s it’s all about perspective to me. I wrap myself around all the right people, I was just at John Dilgen’s this past weekend I put a custom cap door in our buddy John Dilgens home. John is a young man in more pain than I could ever possibly understand. So to sit here and bitch about the fact that my knee hurts and I gotta walk a little bit weird, it just doesn’t seem right to me.

So I just try to keep my head in the right place and like you said before, just keep doing what I do. Just tweak it in the way that is necessary. I like to keep a good perspective on what you got. I think I had something similar before that so many people are so upset about some of the most trivial bullshit in their life and sit around just making it miserable for their spouses for their kids. They don’t even have a grasp on what they truly have.

I try to live by knowing what I got. I’m an extremely happy man and share that gratitude all the time. I try to give back to as many people as I can because it’s just the way I think it should be. So keep a perspective out there, keep your head up and when shit happens, know you can get around it.

Influencers Mentioned:

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”10:00″] The struggle is real and I’m just trying to imagine the struggle of people in that town trying to keep that community together. Especially when all of that started going down. Even after many people decided to get the hell out of dodge but there was still a few people who just never left.
[spp-timestamp time=”20:00″] I was doing all of that biking just to become healthier. It was something I loved ever since I was a little kid and I did some cross country stuff. A lot of those guys are lean, mean, fighting machine super fast and it’s a short race.
[spp-timestamp time=”30:00″] I still did 40 some miles you know, that’s where the mental comes in. Super bummed when I got pulled and I was still able to ride. I just wasn’t keeping the pace.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:00″] GoPro, I love the fact that you tied what can be considered a very expensive purchase, for you and your sister, to very important things that are tied to passion.
[spp-timestamp time=”50:00″] That was my worst race ever. I had every possible mechanical bullshit problem go wrong. I had a mechanical on every lap, it was beyond frustrating.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:00:00″] Final Words

Action Steps:

Submit an iTunes Review. More 5 Stars reaches more people!
Visit our Resources page and a reminder to LIVE-THE-FUEL my friends!
Join my private Facebook community THE FUEL TANK!

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258: Wilderness 101 Racing, Handcycle, & Strauser Project Updates

Scott Mulvaney — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Get Out Of Your Own Head, Wilderness 101 Racing, Project Updates, and More:

Brian Strauser of The Strauser Project is stepping up for the younger generation and others, blazing out a trail for others to follow. Brian is a guy with tremendous heart and wears his emotions on his sleeve… along with a few tattoos too!

Quote: Get Out Of Your Own Head! – Brian Strauser

One mans journey to help himself by helping others!!! Join in the journey!!! LIVE LIFE!!!

Top 3 Hot Points:

Bike Love Mindset
Giving Back Along The Way
Mental and Physical Training

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Final Words:

One, just as a heads up for future info coming up, I’m going to meet with the Fit Chick, Selene Yeager of Bicycling Magazine. Selene is one of those chicks that I’ve known for many, many years as long as I’ve been in the Lehigh Valley.

I thought of this as we were talking day and I would say, “GET OUT OF YOUR OWN HEAD”. That’s my big comment for today, “GET OUT OF YOUR OWN HEAD. We sit around and worry about the 10,000 things going wrong. Take the steps and do the two things you know you can do right. Don’t engulf yourself in all of the bullshit that’s going on. There’s so much of it. Trust me. I could talk for 10 podcasts in a row about some of the stuff I got going on.

Resources:

Influencers Mentioned:

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”09:30″] Black Ice Adventures. This was a bad one, I laid off the gas and was going to go through it pretty mellow. When I hit it, my truck disappeared literally the ass started coming around. In my pickup, Steve’s both arms went, one grabbed the console, the next one is out the window. I got the infamous Willie’s in my stomach.
[spp-timestamp time=”15:00″] This day being a like a chronic reader and whatever, I still am yet to figure out 100%. Anybody looks at overweight people and thinks they have a weight problem, an eating problem, whatever. Quite often it’s not. That’s not the problem. That’s the solution to their problems.
[spp-timestamp time=”18:30″] Along came this event called the Wilderness 101. When I first started reading about this I thought you had to be a special kind of idiot to even consider this. A long long time ago when I was hardcore, it might have been as far as 10 years ago, it was a Leesburg Bakers Dozen Race.
[spp-timestamp time=”25:00″] Sharing the right stories, maybe they could click with some people, clearly, that clicked with him. He just needed a goal.
[spp-timestamp time=”30:00″] Wilderness 101 continued. I know exactly the first hill and every one thereafter for the next 40 some miles. I have a much better understanding as to the type of training that needs to be involved.
[spp-timestamp time=”35:00″] Shoutout to Selene Yeager “The Fit Chick”, author at Bicycling Magazine and FINAL WORDS.

Action Steps:

Submit an iTunes Review. More 5 Stars reaches more people!
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061: Honoring Top 10 of the Past 6 Months LIVETHEFUEL Episodes

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Honoring Top 10 Most Downloaded Episodes with your Host, Scott Mulvaney:

Honoring Top 10 most downloaded episodes today is essential for respect, gratitude, and appreciation. That first 6 months of this new podcast show have been a hell of an adventure! I felt it was essential for me to honor our valuable co-hosts who’ve helped grow this Podcast. This episode is also to serve you, our listeners, for educating our newer listeners of who the top episodes are to follow and learn from. Thank you for subscribing!

Your Top 10 Downloaded Episodes of the LIVETHEFUEL Podcast:

Honorable Mention #11 – 017: The Strauser Project Super Dad

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”02:30″] Noting main podcasting apps including iTunes and Stitcher.
[spp-timestamp time=”03:50″] Going behind the scenes of LIVETHEFUEL.com on our statistics, downloads, and reviews.
[spp-timestamp time=”04:45″] Using iTunes for submitting Podcast Reviews is a pain in the ass.
[spp-timestamp time=”5:55″] Mentioning some early iTunes 5 star show reviews submitted about our LIVETHEFUEL Podcast!
[spp-timestamp time=”08:20″] Reviewing our current downloads progress and the statistics report of the shows current success approaching 15,000 downloads.
[spp-timestamp time=”9:45″] Honorable mention of Brian Strauser of the Strauser Project. He just missed the Top 10 line up by 5 downloads and is in 11 Place.
[spp-timestamp time=”11:25″] 10th Place of our Honoring Top 10 is our voice over professional for the show, Anna Vocino, author of the Eat Happy Cookbook and co-host of the Fitness Confidential Podcast with Vinnie Tortorich.
[spp-timestamp time=”14:50″] 9th Place is Peter Driscoll of HES CrossFit and Tabata Kids. He crushed a successful GoFundMe event to help improve the fitness facility for his young students. All while gaining recognition by the CrossFit organization themselves.
[spp-timestamp time=”16:50″] CrossFit recognition and a personal visit from the CrossFit Champion, Vermont local, Mathew Frazer, 2016 Fittest Man on Earth winner!
[spp-timestamp time=”17:15″] You never now how powerful your message can become if you don’t put it out there.
[spp-timestamp time=”18:25″] Honoring Top 10 continues with Rob Eschbach, episode 013 of SYR CrossFit and the Start Your Revolution community also known as the SYR Army. We recorded this episode onsite in their lounge couches.
[spp-timestamp time=”20:40″] CrossFit is not that scary, it’s definitely not dangerous.
[spp-timestamp time=”21:25″] Episode 053 with Dr. Megan Cannon Ph.D. of the Mind of the Athlete team here in Bethlehem, PA of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania area.
[spp-timestamp time=”22:25″] Body transformation and lifestyle transformations take time. Have patience and put in the reps.
[spp-timestamp time=”24:49″] This is for the YouTube feed, showing the new book, Mind of the Athlete Clearer Mind, Better Performance by Dr. Jarrod Spencer. Dr. Jarrod Spencer is the founder of Mind of the Athlete.
[spp-timestamp time=”26:05″] Episode 008 Liven Up Ya’ll with none other than Whitney Carullo and Chris Carullo of Liven Up Fitness also here in Bethlehem, PA.
[spp-timestamp time=”28:20″] Short break before getting into the Top 5. A reminder to use our Resources page at Livethefuel.com/resources and don’t forget about our “best show notes in the podcasting industry”. Just like John Lee Dumas of eOFire.
[spp-timestamp time=”30:05″] The man, the myth, the legend Vinnie Tortorich of the Fitness Confidential Podcast. Also the founder of the NSNG trademark, author of the Fitness Confidential book, and founder of Pure Vitamin Club.
[spp-timestamp time=”31:02″] Shedding a light on what’s going on in the fitness industry with the Fitness Confidential book.
[spp-timestamp time=”31:54″] Episode 054 with Vinnie really digs into what NSNG, No Sugar No Grains is all about. As well as discussions on the KETO Lifestyle also known as the Ketogenic Lifestyle and becoming more fat-adapted.
[spp-timestamp time=”32:30″] Leptin and Ghrelin is what’s triggering weight gain, it’s hormonally influenced.
[spp-timestamp time=”34:10″] Moving into the Top 4 of Honoring Top 10, is the gentleman known as Tommy Baker. We mutually attended the popular event THRIVE: Make Money Matter in San Diego, California. It was created by a local entrepreneur, Cole Hatter.
[spp-timestamp time=”35:00″] Embracing money and learning to be more successful while making your money matter along the way. #THRIVE16 was attended by the famous author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Jack Canfield, who was one of the headlining speakers.
[spp-timestamp time=”35:30″] Returning to #THRIVE17 in Las Vegas this year for 2017.
[spp-timestamp time=”36:05″] Shoutout to Tommy Baker of Resist Average Academy and TommyBakerFitness.com
[spp-timestamp time=”37:35″] 3rd Place… Our bodies need our fat, paying for Liposuction doesn’t work, our body needs the fat. Episode 033 The Secret Life of Fat, author, Dr. Sylvia Tara Ph.D.
[spp-timestamp time=”38:29″] All the links to getting the books on Amazon are in the show notes here on Livethefuel.com/ “the episode”. For example /033 for Dr. Sylvia Tara.
[spp-timestamp time=”38:45″] Your Fat is an organ!
[spp-timestamp time=”39:18″] #2 most downloaded episode to date is another fellow podcaster with @FitFluential, “mitochondriac”, someone who had been living a very unhealthy life in Silicon Valley, California.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:05″] Kevin Cottrell of FitFluential Radio from episode 044. Learning how he beats cancer and most importantly learning what the hell a “mitochondriac” was. Becoming more than a biohacker.
[spp-timestamp time=”41:40″] Going from being a fatty to literally having abs in 2016. FYI The weight difference is less than 10lbs, in relation to inflammation within the body.
[spp-timestamp time=”44:00″] Episode 051 is our 1st place of Honoring Top 10 today. This crushed the downloads, approaching 5,000 downloads of our 15,000 downloads. He’s 1/3 of my shows current success. “Your Mitochondria and Biohacking with Dr. Jack Kruse”.
[spp-timestamp time=”46:30″] “I am a Mito-Hacker!”
[spp-timestamp time=”48:00″] Turn your car or your workouts into Your Mobile University, we need to be crushing new content every day.
[spp-timestamp time=”49:45″] Isagenix, using the nutrition since 2010 when I was firefighting. People are looking for systems that work. I’ve helped tons of people lose hundreds of pounds of weight and/or improve fitness performance.
[spp-timestamp time=”50:50″] Scheduling time with Scott to discuss coaching needs, Isagenix introductions, podcasting, etc at Livethefuel.com/schedule
[spp-timestamp time=”52:55″] Final Words

Live The Fired Up Epic Life! – Scott W. Mulvaney LIVETHEFUEL

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Links and Resources:

People Mentioned:

1st Place: Dr. Jack Kruse
2nd Place: Kevin Cottrell
3rd Place: Dr. Sylvia Tara PhD
4th Place: Tommy Baker
5th Place: Vinnie Tortorich
6th Place: Whitney & Chris Carullo
7th Place: Dr. Megan Cannon PhD
8th Place: Rob Eschbach
9th Place: Peter Driscoll
10th Place: Anna Vocino
11th Place: Brian Strauser

Final Words

Why did I create LIVETHEFUEL? It’s not just that we are here to FUEL Your Health, Business, and Lifestyle… It stands for Living The Fired Up Epic Life. “Keep Living The Fired Up Epic Life!”

Action Steps

Please Submit an iTunes Show Rating & Review, we need more reviews to increase our ranking and appearance. We love 5 Stars!
Join THE FUEL TANK our community on Facebook! – “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ~ Quote by Jim Rohn
Be sure to check out our Resources and a reminder to “Keep Living The Fired Up Epic Life everyone!” #livethefuel

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