EP 33 - Ben Pakulski: Bodybuilding, Training and Life
Spirit Gym with Paul Chek
Paul Chek
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 168 minutes
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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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