Ep. 2 - Deep End Fitness: How to Overcome Obstacles Like the US Special Forces with Don Tran
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Release Date: 02/26/2021
Ep. 21 - How to Say the Hard Things with John Romaniello and Amanda Bucci
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info_outline“It's always important to appreciate yourself and see where you've gone and how much you've grown."
I'm absolutely delighted to welcome to the episode today Don Tran, Co-Founder and Master trainer at Deep End Fitness and the Underwater Torpedo League. Don is a former Special Operations Marine Raider and a USC EMBA candidate who aims to create a positive shift in mental and physical performance and confidence through team-building workouts and events.
Have you realized that working in the Military gives you an advantage over others when it comes to life-building skills? Don shares today how the Military has helped him evolve as a person and professional by teaching him how to overcome obstacles and adapt to situations. We also talk about Deep End Fitness, how his training program looks like, the importance of time management, and the impact of the pandemic in fitness centers. Listen in for some quick tips to make your everyday lives impactful and productive!
Key Highlights
- Spending a year in Texas made Don appreciate the Military even more. Learn why he recalls the experience to be greatly valuable.
- What are the tools that the Military gave him to be an entrepreneur? A major one is to never give up. He learned to adapt to and overcome situations and challenges.
- Don shares how the Military made him a better leader.
- Know how to build better time management skills.
- Learn how Don brings organization in his tasks every day.
- Learn all about Don's camp fundraising campaign and how the pandemic has affected their plans.
- Don explains what a day of training is like in Deep End fitness. Every session starts off with a circle of trust, they talk about a little bit of their swimming background, personal goals, or expectations out of the day. After that, they go into a few breathing exercises. Then, they do some workouts before getting into the pool. The purpose of training with the weights underwater, he says, "isn't to weight lift underwater, it's really to kind of push your mental capacity and keep you down there for a prolonged amount of time, whether you're doing the walks with them, or whether you bring it back up to the surface or bringing it back down."
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