Mat Fraser + Sammy Moniz: Sweethearts on a Mission PH153

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

Four-time Fittest Man on Earth Mat Fraser is arguably the most dominant competitor the sport has ever seen and has stood on the podium at the CrossFit Games every year he has been in attendance. He earned silver in 2014 and 2015, and for the last four years he's earned gold, typically with a huge margin of victory. Mat is the son of two Olympic athletes and growing up he was an Olympic hopeful himself, but the road to becoming the Fittest on Earth hasn't been without challenges. As a teenager he struggled with alcoholism and made the choice to become sober at 17. At 19 he suffered a fractured back, an injury which sidelined his Olympic weightlifting career, but would ultimately lead him to try CrossFit. Since graduating from the University of Vermont with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business, Mat has become a full-time athlete and trains in Cookeville, Tennessee alongside some of the best CrossFit athletes in the world.

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0:00.0	the results themselves it's like it doesn't define us but it's very important and everything goes into it.
0:06.0	If you're wrapping up your identity in the results, there's a lot of things that go on that you have no control over that can sway the results big time.
0:18.0	So if you're basing your identity off those results, It's like, yeah, it might go right, but there's only two
0:26.4	options when you sign up for a competition. Either you're going to win or you're going to lose.
0:29.7	And you need to be okay with both. And so it's like I try to base my identity off of the effort that I put in.
0:36.5	You know, I hope that if I, you know, if the results aren't what I was looking for I hope that I'm still able to hold my
0:45.5	head high and be proud knowing that I did everything I could. good.
0:57.0	Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Fushe, family physician and former Cross-Vit Games athlete.
1:01.0	Here I bring you information and inspiration to
1:04.3	help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward
1:08.1	your healthiest self. Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get started
1:12.0	with this week's episode. In this
1:15.0	episode I share a conversation with four-time reigning fittest man on earth, Matt
1:20.2	Fraser and his fiance and the mastermind behind feeding the Fraser's
1:24.4	Sammy Monies. Matt and Sammy were nice enough to welcome me into their home in
1:28.9	cookville, Tennessee where they had also been hosting Eric Rosa the new incoming owner and CEO of
1:34.3	Cross Fit for the weekend. We talked about just about everything from how they
1:38.9	met, challenges they've overcome that have helped to shape how they live their lives today.
1:43.7	Their take on the recent changes in CrossFit and what they hope to see the
1:47.2	organization and the sport do in the future, their new home in Vermont and their vision for
1:52.1	their lives five to ten years from now.
1:54.7	It was a long but a really great conversation.
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