Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the muscle intelligence podcast. I am your host, Ben Pocolsky.

Thank you very much for joining me. If you don't know me, I grew up as what I'll call skinny fat.

All through my teenage years, I really wanted to be lean, healthy, and muscular. I've learned so many lessons along my way to becoming one of the largest bodybuilders on the planet, one of the top Mr. Olympia competitors in the world, and I struggled so much along the way.

And that really allows me to empathize, to relate, to understand exactly where you are.

Not only do I have the theoretical knowledge, literally having taken, I think, every certification

under the sun, having been blessed to I think, every certification under the sun,

having been blessed to study and be mentored under the top educators in the world for 25 years now.

But I've also pushed my body to limits and levels that people simply would never understand.

I see where theory breaks down.

All these amazing scientists are doing an incredible job to push the level of theoretical science in muscle building and aperture forward.

And I have the utmost respect for them.

But, or let's say, and most of them don't train.

Most of them don't train hard.

And to understand muscle hypertrophy and where it is applied,

contextually is everything, everything.

And so because I've pushed my body and my mind to limits that most people don't understand,

you start to see where things hold up.

And you start to, after having worked with thousands of clients,

you start to see where things apply and where they fall short.

And so so many people get dogmatic about their way they train or dogmatic about the way they nourish their body or dogmatic about the way they recover.

Great, if it's working for you, keep going.

And if it's not, keep listening.

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