Alma Matters: With Riane Puno.

On the podcast today, I’m joined by Steve Uria, the founder of one of New York’s hottest workouts Switch Playground, among many other fitness concepts that he developed in his home country of South Africa and during his time in Atlanta and LA. When talking to him and learning about his life as fitness visionary, I thought about Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. At Penn, my alma mater, I actually had the chance to listen to Malcolm Gladwell speak and from the book, he expounded on the 10,000 hour role, which he considers to be the key to becoming world-class in any field. You practice something by dedicating 20 hours of work a week to it for 10 years and that’s your key to success. Steve is perfect proof of that, having immersed himself in physical activity and movement and the study of the human body for more than three decades. In this episode, he talks about the origins of his love for fitness, the lessons he learned at school that fostered his scientific knowledge, which inform his practice, his roots in South