Whistlekick Martial Arts Radio Podcast #303: Overweight Martial Artists
Channel: whistlekick
Date: 2018-06-21

On today’s episode, Jeremy talks about the paradox of overweight martial artists and being healthy in the martial arts community.

Being overweight or obesity has more downsides than upsides and that includes both the difficulty in teaching your students and to your own career and personal training as well. This episode isn’t trying to hurt anyone’s feelings but it explains the conflict between being overweight in the martial arts. If you are somehow bothered by the title alone, you may try listening to the episode to find out that this isn’t against anyone in particular. On this episode, Jeremy explains the paradox of overweight martial artists when it comes to training, teaching, and fitness. Listen to learn more!

Jeremy Lesniak:

Hey everyone. Thanks for tuning in, whistlekick martial arts radio episode 303 or if you were my third-grade teacher, you would require that I said it as three hundred three because you can’t have an “and” in a number. She was very passionate about that. I don’t know why I just remember that. My name is Jeremy Lesniak, I’m the founder here at whistlekick, I’m your host here for martial arts radio and today, we’re going to talk about a subject that might ruffle some feathers and I’ll get to what that is in just a moment. Why am I willing to ruffle feathers, well I’ve been considering this is the first episode that I’m recording since episode 300, the live 20hour video broadcast extravaganza, it was basically a really big q&a, it was a lot of fun. I was joined by two of my great friends who have also been on the show and we just had a great time with it but one of the questions that was asked, what do you see coming in the next hundred episodes? And I’ve been thinking about that and I’m making a commitment to all of you, I am not going to hold back on certain subjects because I’m afraid that they would ruffle feathers. I’ve slowly become more confident with that, I’m slowly embracing the position I guess that I have, the ability to speak to all of you and get you thinking. I’ve never said I want you to change your mind to what I’m saying, I don’t want you to blindly follow what I say, think or do but I do hope happens from these episodes whether it’s a topic show or a conversation from a Monday episode, is that you will consider what you do, how you do it, why you do it and continue to make the best choices for you for your family for your school. That’s it. That’s all I want is for you to think.