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Muscle Intelligence

011- The Mountain Dog Mindset: Creating Lasting Greatness with John Meadows

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

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Joining us today is IFBB Pro Bodybuilder and coach, John Meadows. In this episode Ben and John dive into all things mindset and how to take your game to the level of a top athlete in the bodybuilding world. They discuss the essential nature of surrounding yourself with the GREAT people, and how to create success by grounding your life in honesty.  John divulges his Mountain Dog mechanisms of ‘progression for training’ & his favorite approach to contest prep and physique transformation. He opens up about how to be a great teacher and a great student. Find out why he has a reputation for doing everything 1st class!!

Time Stamps

  • John opens up about his love of supplements and his company, Granite. [2:12]
  • How your greatest obstacle is your greatest opportunity for progress. [3:12]
  • His 5 people he chooses to surround himself with + what characteristics/values are he looking at to improve his life from those people? [6:52]
  • How much is social media affecting the fitness industry and the world as a whole? [11:26]
  • Does he feel the level of athlete is diminishing or improving? [19:02]
  • What was his mindset for his aspiration to ascend the mountain of bodybuilding? [35:04]
  • Why people are afraid to be honest with people by fear of judgement. [44:25]
  • What was that unconscious thing that allowed him to suffer more than the other guy? [51:48]
  • How many clients does he have at the moment and what does his selection process look like? [55:23]
  • What is his opinion on why people are jumping from coach to coach? [58:02]
  • What are some of his foundational tenants? [1:00:25]
  • John’s mechanisms of ‘progression for training’. [1:03:50]
  • Being grateful for where you are and what you are coming home too. [1:16:44]

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0:00.0

people are paralyzed by over-training fears. It's hard to get a good workout when you're focused on

0:07.0

your phone. There's so many things we talk about relative to training intensity. I remember four

0:11.8

years ago when we trained together, I remember you doing a banded deadlift, like not reverse banded,

0:17.7

banded, banded to make it harder, plus you had had like 500 pounds on it, and you went to failure.

0:22.6

There wasn't, well, if I do this set, am I going to overtrain?

0:26.6

It was, I'm going'm I'm

0:38.3

I'm

0:39.3

I'm

0:40.3

I'm your host, Ben Pekolsky. As always, I love to have great conversations with brilliant people.

1:12.6

And today is no exception. We frame the podcast around living your greatest life and a body that you love.

1:17.6

And this gentleman is leading the fitness industry and helping people build a body that they love.

1:24.4

John Meadows joins me today to discuss his history in bodybuilding, you know, having

1:30.1

been aspiring to be a bodybuilder for over 30 years now, made a lot of mistakes, made a lot of

1:37.4

right decisions, trained a lot of incredible athletes and still continues to train a lot

1:41.4

of incredible athletes. John and I talk a lot about just becoming a great human being,

1:46.6

being a great leader in the industry,

1:48.5

and how he chooses to surround himself with people who are aspiring for greatness.

1:54.1

I really enjoyed this conversation with John.

1:56.1

John and I have known each other for a long time.

1:58.8

I came into his home and chatted, you know, got to spend time with his family

2:02.6

and really got to know this guy at a personal level,

2:04.6

even more than I have in the past.

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