Ep. 391: Charles Poliquin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Charles Poliquin. Charles is recognized as one of the worlds most successful strength coaches and has coached Olympic to professional athletes. Poliquin was Canada's second youngest black belt at the age of 14, has mastered 6 different martial arts, and is influenced strongly by Bruce Lee, karma and other eastern influences. After getting into karate at the age of 10, he moved into lifting weights at the age of 14 and fell in love instantly with the sport. He took on his first training client in his first year of college at the age of 17 and has named himself the "Strength Sensei".
The topic is strength coaching.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Long distance cardio vs. short sprint workouts
- The importance of sleep to your health and fitness
- Meditation and mindfulness
- How testosterone levels affect the psychology of men and woman
- Relationship between top athletes and top executives
- How to stay motivated
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:20.7 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:23.1 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:26.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.0 | A little something different today. |
| 0:35.1 | My guest is Charles Pollyquine. |
| 0:37.0 | He is recognized as one of the world's most |
| 0:38.8 | successful strength coaches, Olympic athletes, pro athletes, you name them, Charles has trained them. |
| 0:47.4 | A world of experience. For those of you out there that want to get in better shape, for those of you that want |
| 0:55.0 | to start getting into any kind of shape, I think Charles' insights are a great starting |
| 1:01.6 | point. |
| 1:04.5 | There are no great tricks. |
| 1:07.1 | There are no great shortcuts. |
| 1:10.1 | But there are better ways to think about health and strength and exercise. |
| 1:15.9 | My guest today definitely brings that perspective home hard. |
| 1:23.4 | Also, in my unique world where it seems like there's a connection to everybody, and maybe it's not even six degrees of separation anymore, maybe it's just a couple degrees. |
| 1:35.9 | Charles is actually on my show in a roundabout sort of way because I know Ed Sikota. |
| 1:46.7 | A great conversation. I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:58.4 | Charles, my first question, considering my audience and my audience is diverse and I have a lot of diverse guests on my show. |
| 2:06.9 | I would love to know the connective tissue, the rationale, the reason, how it came to be that you and Ed Saccoda have connected. |
| 2:10.5 | We're producing together a seminar of four executives. |
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