Genetics-Based Training for Lifelong Athletics #381
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
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Episode Description
In this powerful solocast, Ben Pakulski reveals his personal mission to become an elite athlete at 80, and the exact strategies he’s using to get there. This isn't about trends or following influencers. It's about aligning your training, nutrition, and daily actions with your unique genetic code. Ben shares how his journey from bodybuilding to fatherhood has evolved into a high-performance system for longevity. You’ll learn why cookie-cutter health advice fails, how to build your own performance dashboard, and what it really takes to stay strong for decades to come. Whether you’re a dad, athlete, or high-performer, this episode will change how you think about aging.
Points To Watch Out For
- Why genetic testing should guide your fitness plan
- The 4 capabilities every man must optimize
- Ben’s real-life system for aging like an athlete
- How to stop copying routines and start personalizing
- The mindset shift that extends physical performance
About Ben
Ben Pakulski is the Chief Performance Officer to elite executives, successful entrepreneurs, and top athletes. With over 25 years of experience, he coaches high achievers to build the physical, psychological, and metabolic resilience required to lead at the highest level.
As the creator of the Muscle Intelligence framework, Ben specializes in aligning biology and behavior to drive sustained peak performance. His mission is to redefine what’s possible for people in their prime and push the boundaries of human potential.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome back to the muscle intelligence podcast. I'm your host, Benp Bikolsky. |
| 0:14.9 | Today we're going to talk about my new mission, why it fits into the world and why it might be |
| 0:19.0 | interesting to you. The idea of being an |
| 0:21.7 | athlete when I'm 80 is ultimately what drives my day-to-day decisions around training, around nutrition, |
| 0:28.9 | around lifestyle interventions, around biohacking, all these crazy things that exist out there. And there's |
| 0:33.6 | an infinite number of possible interventions. but not all of them are weighted equally |
| 0:38.6 | for me. And so while the world is telling you you need to cold plunge and sauna and do stem cells |
| 0:44.2 | and do plasma aphoresis and take this vitamin and take this pill and, you know, the infinite number of |
| 0:50.3 | levers that can be pulled are not all equal to your physiology. They're not all equally |
| 0:56.4 | beneficial. They're not all equally going to be used on equal frequency or timing and cadence |
| 1:02.7 | and understanding how to do that. And which ones are most important for you right now, |
| 1:06.8 | based on your goals, is really what's driving my education currently, what's driving my mission, |
| 1:13.8 | and ultimately allowing me to unlock the greatest version of myself today so that I can perform at my highest level |
| 1:20.3 | and ultimately unlock this athlete when I'm 80. |
| 1:23.1 | And so why do I want to be an athlete when I'm 80? |
| 1:25.2 | Well, the truth is it just feels like a really worthwhile goal for me. And why an athlete? Well, an athlete, what is an athlete? Let's define an |
| 1:31.5 | athlete. An athlete is someone who moves well, who has the strength to weight ratio to be able to |
| 1:40.2 | do everything in all situations. So when you're 20 years old, when you're 15 years old, |
| 1:44.8 | chances are you're probably a pretty good athlete. And maybe if you weren't, you can still be one. |
| 1:50.0 | And if you were a great athlete, what that means is generally you're strong, you're fast, |
| 1:56.3 | you're physically resilient or physically capable. The term I like to use is physical capability. |
| 2:02.2 | Like, I want to be able to run. I want to be able to lift. I want to be able to swim. I want to |
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