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Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

EP 33 - Ben Pakulski: Bodybuilding, Training and Life

Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

Paul Chek

Spirituality, Metaphysics, Alternative Health, Personal Development, Holistic Health, Paul Chek, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Plant Medicine, Wellness, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

What drives a bodybuilder to be the best in his/her sport? Equal doses of fear and a burning intensity to be the hardest working person in the gym were the driving forces that catapulted Ben Pakulski - IFBB professional bodybuilder and winner of the 2008 Mr. Canada competition - to the top in competitive bodybuilding. Learn how Ben overcame an abusive childhood to become one of the most successful bodybuilders in North America and how he’s giving back to his sport in this latest Living 4D pod...

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0:00.0

I'm actually using training to be more conscious as an opportunity to be

0:05.1

present to be mindful kind of like when we're lifting rocks right? Well how do you take

0:09.2

training your typical weightlifting and turn into that where you have to now pay attention to

0:14.3

positions in your body, you have to pay attention to muscle links, like what muscle is

0:17.6

moving and teaching people to become more present in the moment. So I use it as this

0:21.9

opportunity for everybody to become more conscious and more

0:25.2

present in the moment because if you really want to build a great body, being present is going to

0:30.4

accelerate that, right? I need to pay attention to what's moving,

0:33.8

what's contracting, what's doing the work,

0:35.8

where do I feel this, how am I doing this?

0:38.1

Like there's a lot of intricate questions

0:40.0

you can be asking yourself

0:40.9

to actually make you more present in the moment.

0:42.7

You know, my training is meditative.

0:44.0

It's, you know, my eyes are closed, I'm paying attention to my breath.

0:47.6

I'm paying attention to my contraction.

0:49.4

What do I feel it?

0:50.4

Am I feeling the right place?

0:52.2

And then between sets, it's again, going back

0:53.9

into the parasympathetic breath, right?

0:55.5

So like, how can I get myself out of that massive sympathetic state

0:58.3

and go to the parasympathetic breath?

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