An Equation for Transformative Growth: Less Work, Bigger Response #197
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.7 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
How can we make decisions within exercise programming to ultimately facilitate transformative growth? In today's solocast, Ben breaks down the relationship between signal and response, so that you can outline your ideal progression within any training discipline.
Ben also answers some popular listener questions, including how he makes training-based decisions around his own supplementation, and what supplements he includes in his nutrition regiment.
No matter where you are in your own training, this episode will allow you to identify your greatest opportunity to elicit a response for high performance. Listen to gain insight on:
- Where you are on a nervous system continuum.
- Why quality of movement matters so much.
- How to get a BIGGER response with LESS work.
- What opportunity lies within paying attention to your weaknesses.
- When evaluating recovery time can help you make decisions.
Ben mentions an article in this episode on the hormonal responses within exercise: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18416594/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, welcome back to the muscle intelligence podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | We joined me last week. |
| 0:14.0 | We talked a little bit about how the nervous system should become one of the primary decision-making factors when building muscle, when |
| 0:21.9 | deciding what to do in the gym. Everyone's nervous system is different. That is yes, genetic. |
| 0:26.9 | That's also environmental and lifestyle-based. So how your nervous system currently exists, |
| 0:32.2 | somewhere between this highly sympathetic state and this highly parasympathetic state. And everyone |
| 0:37.3 | exists in a continuum and learning where you are is really important in driving decision making on how you can ultimately get your body to adapt. |
| 0:44.0 | So we're going to talk today as an extension of that conversation. |
| 0:46.7 | If you haven't ready to listen to last week's solo cast, go ahead and listen to that now. |
| 0:50.4 | And you'll have a better understanding of maybe where you sit on this continuum. Today's podcast is brought to by bubs, Bubs, BubsNatrills.com, the greatest MCT powder on the planet. |
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| 1:56.8 | muscle. And today I want to talk a little bit more about the equation for exercise, right? |
| 2:03.0 | So this equation, and I'm going to simplify this equation, let's call it signal, which is |
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