Hello and welcome to another episode of Mindfulness Plus. I'm your host Thomas McConkey. Thank you for downloading us.

What is Mindfulness Plus?

Here at Mindfulness Plus, we work with a very basic premise and practice.

Premises you can dramatically change the quality of your life by changing the way you pay attention.

But paying attention takes practice.

So we practice paying attention in a special way here at Mindfulness Plus,

based on ancient wisdom, based on modern science.

Think of it as a series of neurohacks to elevate your baseline of joy and fulfillment in life.

All right. That's the plug. That's what this show is all about. Today, I want to talk about fitness.

What kind of fitness? Well, I'll tell you how this idea came to me i was recently surfing youtube

and i saw a thumbnail of none other than former governor arnold schwartzneger and i i clicked and

was listening to him interview i think this is back in the 70s. He's talking about bodybuilding.

And what's interesting about Schwarzenegger, he's regarded as really the greatest bodybuilder to ever compete.

And if you listen to him, if you follow him, he was obsessive about how he exercised.

He was scientific.

He was meticulous.

He was relentless.

And for the connoisseurs of the sport, which I am not, but if you push into this a little

bit, what you find that people are so impressed by is that Schwarzenegger wasn't just

massive because he was and is. It wasn't just massive and bulky, but he was aesthetic and symmetrical

and proportionate. And I got thinking about this, the many hours a day for decades that Schwarzenegger

spent in the gym to get to his level of performance. I thought about the analogy in mindfulness

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