Getting UNPLUGGED w/ Brian Mackenzie and Andy Galpin - 259

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

With all the sleep apps, heart rate monitors, supplements, air conditioners, coffee (and more coffee) we use, it's evident we live in an optimized world, and it is making us weak.

In episode 259, we are bringing Brian Mckenzie and Andy Galpin back to talk about the research they are doing around performance, and what it means to be a resilient human in a comfortable world.

Never before have we had it so easy, and although we are training and optimizing our diet, our comfy lifestyle is holding us back from being as strong as we could be. It is one thing to have a training routine, but as soon as we go back to our air conditioned rooms and perfectly organized lifestyle, we lose the ability to adapt to the stress that our body has evolved to feel.

Brian and Andy have co authored a book called Unplugged, and in it they have put in the work and laid out the practices we can adopt (and the one’s we need to abandon) if we want to create a resilient body and mind.

Every athlete should listen to this episode. If you want to learn how to build mental toughness, and a stress adapted body, you can head over to amazon and pre-order the book.

Enjoy the show,

Mike

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0:00.0	The optimal state for us is to be in a continual state of stress.
0:05.2	And I mean sleep stress. I mean hunger street cold. I mean Brian's cold stuff right?
0:09.5	First, so when you don't get that exchange, those things actually die away.
0:30.0	I'm going to give it a shot. I'll spend one year off somewhere eventually.
0:50.4	I found that I do less things because when they're more convenient like this,
0:56.2	because I don't want to deal with it. If I lived out there, we would do stuff all the time.
1:01.0	We would go out, but now I'm like, I don't want to deal with the traffic.
1:04.5	So we end up doing nothing. There's honestly every day. I don't even know how they went by.
1:11.2	How is it at the end of the day right now? When you're up there? Yeah.
1:16.8	Interesting. It's a good place to get started.
1:20.0	Yeah, let's do it.
1:21.8	Welcome to Barbell Struck. I'm Mike Blitzer here with Doug Larson.
1:25.0	And we have Dr. Andy Galpin and Brian McKenzie on the show. We're hanging out at Ruka again.
1:32.8	We love coming up here and hanging out. And we're actually going to interview both these guys
1:38.0	because they've written a book together. That's a test of a friendship right there.
1:45.2	Can you guys are still hanging out socially? Don't hate each other. That's nice.
1:50.1	The name of the book is unplugged. Yep. Can you give us what's up with the title?
1:56.8	Doc, that's you. Oh, it is. Oh, there's going to be a difficulty.
2:04.0	Instead of them trying to talk over each other, get the point across. They're going to be like,
2:07.4	I don't know. We are the book. We are the assist in the age of technology, whether we like it or not.
2:15.9	And fitness is no different. So any aspect that we deal with in human performance or fitness,
2:20.9	whatever you want to call it, ultimately has this technological warfare going on.
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