Ben Greenfield’s Radical Fitness Strategies

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In today’s fitness space, self-experimentation is the name of the game. All kinds of people are embracing new technologies and diets in the hope of finding faster strategies for getting in the best possible shape. In this crowd, few are pushing things further than Ben Greenfield. The exercise physiologist and personal trainer has made his mark by exploring the limits of what seems reasonable (Example A: injecting his penis with stem cells) and voicing controversial ideas, including skepticism about standard vaccination practices. In his new book, Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging, he covers almost anything you might want to know about being the fittest and healthiest you can be. For this episode, Outside editor Chris Keyes speaks with Greenfield about strategies for better sleep, the upsides of cold therapy, the problems with gym workouts, and more.

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0:15.0	like professional big wave surfer will scooten. It's funny because a lot of people
0:19.9	think your big wave surfers are like, oh, psychos, you know, but, you know,
0:24.3	for the most part, everybody there is,
0:26.0	everybody's pretty mellow, you know,
0:27.8	no one's really a psycho until they hit the water.
0:30.5	And we're just trying to be as calculated madman, basically.
0:35.0	Scooning grew up in Long Beach, New York, in an ocean-loving family.
0:39.0	When he was a teenager, he met legendary waterman layered Hamilton.
0:43.4	And that was all it took to get him obsessed with big wave surfing.
0:47.4	At age 15, he saved up enough money busing tables to cover a surf trip to Peru. The next year he paddled out at Mavericks, the iconic
0:55.9	giant wave off the Northern California coast.
0:58.7	Mavericks is probably the most pound-for- pound intimidating wave on the planet.
1:05.0	And you know it when you fall in Mavericks that you can be like from zero to 60 feet deep in like
1:11.3	you know two seconds and that's when you black out.
1:13.9	So Mavericks is a beast.
1:17.7	At Mavericks, Scudin showed he was ready to go big.
1:21.2	He was exceptionally talented, good enough to eventually become a pro-surfer.
1:25.4	Ever since, he's been paid to travel the world and ride enormous waves.
1:29.6	It's his dream job, but also really hard.
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