Endurance with Kevin E. Gregory Jr.
Kevin Gregory Jr. AKA @BubblestheClowne is an experienced strength and conditioning coach (CSCS), health and lifestyle influencer, cofounder of his own gym, and an OG Obstacle Course Racing athlete. Kevin has built a reputation at Spartan Race for being a light in the crowd that brings people together with his outgoing personality and the levity of his clown mask alter-ego on race day. Kevin is a major inspiration in the world of OCR with his never-quit attitude and drive to not only push himself to higher limits, but in his efforts to help tons of other people achieve things beyond their perceived abilities along the way.
In this episode we discuss Kevin’s journey from weekend warrior to podium finisher, and everything from overcoming trauma through lifestyle changes to following your passions, going against social norms to fight for change and personal growth, human potential and our universal capacity for achievement, undertaking great feats of endurance, how to make choices to start living life to its fullest, and much, much more.
Show Notes:
Spartan.com - Sign up for a Race!!
Bubbles on Instagram @Bubblestheclowne
75hard Challenge founded by Andy Frisella
https://andyfrisella.com/pages/75hard-info
Book: It Didn’t Start with You
Book: The Body Keeps the Score
Book: The Body Electric
Great resource for info on Family Constellation Therapy
Book: Dean Karnazes - The Ultramarathon Man
My Blog Series on how I trained through chronic disease for a 50k ultramarathon
Time Markers:
@start -> 26:03 - Kevin and mine’s time in OCR
@26:58 - Using fitness challenge results, off season woes, and Endurance in the face of adversity - on the unknown consequences of letting your training slip and the rewards of never stopping.
@31:58 - Kevin’s racing history, the post-race perspective-shift on every day life, the addictive draw of endurance racing and OCR, and finding balance in the benefits of competition.
@46:20 - Endurance Sports, competing versus participating, athlete identity, identity conflict for people seeking growth, and finding purpose in life through elective hardship.
@55:10 - Fostering Intuition by taking leaps of faith, chasing value, and beginner’s tips for leaning into elective hardship, living a disciplined lifestyle, and testing your limits
@ 1:09:35 - The beginning: being okay with who and where you are, deeper reasons for change, shadow work, overcoming deep seated conditioning and trans-generational trauma, and having a date on the calendar.
@ 1:16:40 - Calendar Events continued - How we are always going to want more, teamwork-oriented endurance events, and chasing the perspective shift
@ 1:26:41 - Finding Ourselves & Personal Solidarity - avoiding identity crises from external pressures (like COVID) through investment in Self and elective exposure to possible failure.
@ 1:31:31 - “You are either going to win, or you are going to Learn” & On Lessons in forgiving and letting go.
@ 1:37:56 - What is our Baseline Human Capacity? What should we capable of and what can we achieve if we decide to act?
@ 1:46:34 - What we can do if no one ever tells us we can’t, and when we break past collective perspectives of labels and impressions - Never listening to people who say you can’t.
@ 1:52:34 - You never know what you are capable of until you DO IT, and it has been done before, no matter what it is.
@ 2:03:39 - What it feels like to prove to yourself that YOU CAN