Everyone, welcome to Health Theory. Today's guest is Da Rulk. He's a celebrity trainer known for

his role in turning Chris Hemsworth into the mighty Thor and Josh Brolin into the world

destroying Thanos. He's also the strength in conditioning coach for elite athletes,

military warriors and first responders, as well as some of the most explosive and powerful

MMA fighters in the game. He is the master of transformation, both body and mind. He's the

principal trainer for Chris Hemsworth's center training system and he helped Chris Cyborg develop

so much strength that people say getting punched by her is like being hit by a gorilla.

And dude, talk to me about adaptation. That's one of the things researching you know I found the

most interesting your belief in the human ability to adapt, which is my absolute obsession. And I want

to know how do we trigger it? How do we get into adaptation response mode? How is that informed

the style of training that you do? I mean I think for me, everyone talks about functional training

all the time. I think functional training specifically is how efficiently a body can adapt to

situations, right? Life is just, it's not static. It's always consistently moving. So for me, a lot of

my training, my training curriculum came from sequencing in the body's ability to adapt.

In the means of sequencing? Sequencing, the best way to explain it is if I told you say the alpha

8-Z, you could say it, but if I don't say it backwards or every third letter, be fifth letter,

it's figuring out the coding from a certain pattern that we do. And the same thing is with movement

patterns, whether I tell you to move and crawl to a jump, to skip, to hop, your body's consistently

trying to learn how to move in those movement patterns, right? And I think for me, even when I

first started working with first responders, we'd see first responders that are extremely fit in

shape and ready for their job, but they'd go out there in a fire and they'd get exposed to situations

that they weren't used to or accustomed to or prepared for and they couldn't perform, right? And

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