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Muscle Intelligence

009- Creating an Unbreakable Mind and Resilient Body with Josh Lenartowicz

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Expert, Ben, 40, Pakulski, Alternative Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Intelligence, Biohacking, Mi, Intelligent, Mi40, Nutrition, Diet, Hormones, Muscle, Exercise

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Josh Lenartowicz, Australia’s highest ranked bodybuilder joins us today to discuss his beginnings, career and training!  Josh is a highly respected Olympia competitor and coach who came from humble beginnings, starting training at age 14 to rise to be one of the top bodybuilders in the world.  In this episode of Muscle Intelligence we dive into Josh’s unique training style, the mindset of competing at the highest level in bodybuilding, and how he fell in, out and back in love with the sport.  We also discuss the good habits he formed starting his career competing natural and why everyone should learn to develop naturally before augmenting with steroids.

Time Stamps

  • How to NOT let something ‘define’ you and finding your purpose. [2:20]
  • Where did his passion start for bodybuilding? Defining his current diet, breaking paradigms & MORE. [9:02]
  • How does he get so inspired to be so great? Breaking down his mindset and internal motivation. [25:00]
  • Has competition impacted the person he has become? [28:22]
  • The importance of turning off your autonomic nervous system around meal timing. [34:21]
  • Key tips to overall great health and longevity. [38:20]
  • The evolution of his training and the significance of changing your workouts. [42:45]
  • What did he learn from his transition from amateur to pro? [47:07]
  • How he is falling in love with training all over again. [55:10]
  • The importance of educating yourself and planning for the future. [1:00:48]
  • What does he prep look like this time around? [1:04:33]
  • How does he perceive stress and how does he manage it? [1:09:11]
  • What is his legacy? [1:10:53]

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0:00.0

It was really, it was complete sabotaging of my mindset.

0:02.9

Like it was, I know I'm not good enough to win this show,

0:06.0

but if I sabotage myself, then it's easier for my mind to handle because I know that...

0:09.5

Because I can rationalise me not being my best because I stuffed up. I'm sitting in Melbourne, Australia, and I'm walking down the road.

0:42.2

I saw the Incredible Hulk.

0:45.7

My great friend, Josh Lenarowitz, is joining us on the Most Election podcast today.

0:49.9

We're going to talk about how Josh became one of the biggest human beings on the planet.

0:53.6

And I think that's really interesting area of discussion because most people assume that it's

0:59.2

just about, you know, eating more. And most people make their judgments, man. And the thing I love

1:03.7

about you, Josh, is you bring something of value to the conversation every time we talk. You always

1:07.7

have great insights. You said something to me last week. I was just like it was probably something you didn't even acknowledge and it was just so insightful. I thought everybody

1:14.7

need to hear it and we'll bring it up with you. The idea of a gateway.

1:19.0

We talked, you mentioned that. And I thought that was like, gosh, the fact you acknowledge it is very

1:22.5

brilliant. But man, thank you for taking the time. I know it's right in the middle of prep,

1:27.2

but thank you for taking the time. I know it's right in the middle of prep, but thank you.

1:28.3

No, thanks, Ben. Thanks for having me on. And thanks for coming to our sort of beautiful city, but it's

1:33.7

extremely hot. Dude, I love it, though. It's hot, but it's dry. You know, spending a lot of my time in

1:39.0

Tampa is this hot sometimes. Yeah, it's beautiful. But so humid.

1:45.1

This is great.

1:46.6

Like you go outside and sweat.

1:48.5

Tampa, you go outside, you're like pouring.

1:49.1

Yeah.

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