Diving With Giant Squid, Slaying Dragons & Becoming A Starved Savage With Adventurer Monty Halls

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Ben Greenfield

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🗓️ 3 June 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

I'll always been a fan of gritty adventure, survival, wilderness exploring and even TV shows like Bear Grylls, Survivor Man, and yes, occasionally even Naked & Afraid.

So after I returned from a week long wilderness survival immersion at Twin Eagles Wilderness School, I jumped at the chance to get adventurer Monty Halls on the podcast. Monty is a broadcaster, speaker, naturalist, formal Royal Marine, marine biologist, travel writer and leadership specialist with experience covering over two decades of leading teams in some of the most remote environments on earth for wildlife and adventure documentaries like Great Ocean Adventures and Lost Worlds (which is currently a new series on the Discovery Channel).

He's also written adventure books like Dive: The Ultimate Guide to 60 of the World's Top Dive Locations (Ultimate Sports Guide), The Fisherman's Apprentice, Adventures On The Wild West Coast and Adventures On The Atlantic Coast.

In today's episode you'll discover: -What Monty's life was like leading up to that point that got him head-hunted as a competitor in the flagship show Superhumans, a test of elite performers, competing in a series of challenges devised by the QinetiQ testing centre in the UK... -What it was like to dive with a giant squid... -Monty's philosophy on combining sleep with adventure... -What it means to be "seven meals away from a savage"... -When you first encounter a strange or new environment, how you can accelerate your learning process or chances of survival... -How Monty manages combining adventuring and survival trips with managing a family life... -Monty's take on exercise, dieting and biohacks... -And much more!

Resources from this episode: -Diving and adventure books by Monty Halls

Do you have questions, comments or feedback about Monty Halls's adventures or anything else in this episode? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com!

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ben Greenfield and I know it's been a few weeks since we've had our usual Q&A
0:06.2	news flash and formal podcast episode with myself and Brock and sometimes when that happens
0:12.1	it feels like I'm really not able to fill you in on what's going on these days in my
0:17.7	life.
0:18.7	So I want to throw a quick tip in for you before we hop into today's podcast with Adventure
0:23.9	Monty Halls because I just finished this very activity which I'm about to fill you in on.
0:30.2	Keg carries.
0:31.8	Yes, Keg carries.
0:33.5	So this is something that I first discussed and discovered in the podcast episode with
0:38.2	Zach Evenesh, Zach Evenesh, which you can find at BenGreenfieldFitness.com in which he
0:43.8	recommended that you can actually get a Keg from a local bar.
0:47.8	You can fill it about a quarter to three quarters full of water and do Keg carries.
0:53.4	And I'll tell you what, just doing five one to two minute Keg carries with some kind of
0:58.8	recovery in between like planks or yoga or something to let your grip recover before
1:04.6	you do another set of Keg carries is actually an amazing full body workout.
1:10.0	So that's how I spent my morning prior to recording today's episode was carrying a Keg
1:14.8	around and around the perimeter of my house.
1:17.8	So one other thing before jumping into today's episode, as I mentioned in the episode, I just
1:22.6	returned from a week long wilderness survival camp and wilderness immersion with my kids.
1:28.7	And I didn't shave the whole time.
1:30.5	I actually came home with about the closest thing to a beard I've ever had.
1:35.5	And of course, one of the very first things that I did was I grabbed my Harry's razor.
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