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Kyle Maynard

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first: 2017-07-09
most recent: 2017-07-09
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Yes, it was basically, I was 17, 18 years old. It was like we just kind of picked a weight, 240 pounds, and I just did as many repetitions as I could. Sort of like a comminesque kind of situation. And ended up at that competition. So did 23 repetitions at that and weighed about 120 pounds at the time. But it's just crazy because I think, so I opened a gym about eight years ago. And frequently when someone would come into the gym and talk to me, a lot of times or not just me, but one of our coaches, they would go and point at somebody doing something amazing. And they would go and say, like, there's no way I can go and do that. And I hear that all the time. And it's like, to me, it's like, you know, you have no idea where that person started. You have no idea the massive amount of failure that went in to be able to go and get to that point where then they were doing something awesome. But the difference was they stuck it out. They did the work and then that was the result. So, you know, it's like, I think if I could go back in time and tell you,”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the first team sport that I played was football and then wrestling, but it was always had this interest in sports. I was obsessed, you know, and had this delusion of like, you know, I'd be in the NBA someday or I'd be as big Atlanta Braves fan and like John Smoltz or Dragmatics throwing fastballs and change-ups and stuff. And I think the really cool thing was that my parents did let me have this dream. They didn't like squelch it. My mom was a little bit more pragmatic, I think. So when I did go to play football, you know, she was telling me that, you know, you might be the water boy on the team, but they're going to find a place we're in. In my head, like I said, I want to be the quarterback. I want to be throwing the spiral touchdowns. And it was interesting how those dreams, they didn't like, and as you kind of, I'm sure as you know, you can relate, right? Like the dreams you may have had at a certain point, they didn't manifest exactly how you saw them go, but it set you on this path and this journey that then takes you down.”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your experience, yeah. I think this is like where I found my environment and found my homeland. It was like Gimli and Lord of the Rings or something, you know, I mean in a sub-training environment, I realized it was like this great equalizer. So we went to this cave in Indiana as in the Boy Scouts. We had my dad, my grandpa were there. And, you know, so you got to crawl through these tunnels. And it's like these tiny wet cave tunnels. And I was like, awesome, like just sprinted past everybody, right? Like this is great. I don't know why it's so hard for everyone.”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Use my left foot to hit the brake and my right foot to hit the gas and grab a steering hold with my arms. And my mountain guide friend actually who's done some pretty scary things like climbed Everest and stuff said that one of these scariest moments of his life was when he's driving me for the first time and I grabbed my phone to answer it while we were driving. I got like the Bluetooth thing going now.”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Trap like it was just this tank that's going down barely down the highway. And I'm like, no, never again. I'm not doing that again. There's no way. And so I just literally, but now I mean, and so they have pedals that drive just a like an SUV and it's just got basically lifted up and extended pedals. They're very simple. You pop in my car and drive it and it's like just put your legs underneath it.”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The physical stuff was less taxing to kind of figure out. I kind of had this idea, this belief that there would always be a way, there'd be some tool. Driving in particular was a little bit trickier. I was a little bit older because I want to be in terms of the adaptations and the equipment that I use, a lot more sort of Spartan, right? I want things to be very simple, very mechanical, few points of failure. first vehicle that this group, an amazing group that helps people with spinal injuries in Atlanta wanted to go and have me drive was this massive Ford van. And it was like this huge thing with these touch screen computers, but this is back in like 2002 or three. And so these touchscreen computers and like joystick for the gas of the break. And I'm like, oh my, this is crazy, right? I'm driving in tiny lanes in Atlanta rush hour traffic with this giant death.”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so immediately start crying straight to the bottom of the pool, right? But, you know, kind of, yeah, it was like probably four years old, something like that, three or four.”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's funny, I was on Howard Stern and he called my dad a dick for this, but my dad basically put me in the middle of the pool, taught me how to float on my back. And as soon as he thought that I was like good and I got it, then he got out of the pool. And he was like, now figure out how to get out”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My grandpa, for one, super smart, and I did not inherit those genes. He, I mean, like super smart. He was like valedictorian engineers, valedictorian at University of Illinois as an engineer. I mean, he was with his mindset, him and my dad, my dad was a engineer as well. And they really were just great at being able to figure out ways to be able to go and adapt different things, you know, and the actual tools of what would be helpful.”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just hang out and wait. They come in for an awkward elbow bump or something. Thanks, bro. That was awesome. That was really cool.”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Almost like you can see subtitles scrolling across sometimes, right? I go to shake somebody's hand in 99% of the time I get a normal handshake back or whatever fist bump. And then that 1% of the time or less, maybe one out of a couple hundred, I see this just fear and panic, right? You go to shake their hand and they're like pause and it's like guy doesn't have an arm. What does he want me to do? Oh my god.”
2017-07-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #251: How to Live Without Limits - Kyle Maynard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT