How To Make Yourself Physically & Mentally More Gritty, Resilient & Harder To Kill With Jeff Banman Of Brute Force.
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🗓️ 5 February 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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My guest on this podcast, Jeff Banman, is a recognized leader in the area of human performance and human behavior in high-stress environments. With over 30 years of experience across multiple domains including the Fire Service, the US Army Special Operations Command and the Central Intelligence Agency, Jeff now serves as the COO & Chief Human Performance Officer for the global fitness brand Brute Force.
After conducting Counterterrorism operations in over twenty-three countries, two combat zones and multiple high-threat/non-permissive environments, Jeff has the privilege of dissecting human behavior at a micro level in order to enhance individual and team performance in some of the most intense moments imaginable. His study evaluated and developed algorithms for calculating minute shifts in Heart Rate Variability against variable stressors, distinct practices for managing the Central Nervous System while under significant stress and integrative techniques to help high-level operators remain fully present in order to navigate extreme situations.
Jeff sees the world differently than most people. For three decades he has been someone people relied upon to solve highly complex problems in extreme and often intense situations. In his time as a Firefighter, Airborne Ranger and CIA Counterterrorism Operator and Business Leader, he's learned one big lesson - extreme and intense is as uniquely relevant to a person as is a fingerprint.
We all perceive things differently and when we experience something significant, stressful or uncertain, Jeff teaches that we respond accordingly. Through his core work developing new human performance protocols for US SOCOM and the Intelligence Community, working with Professional Athletes and High Performing Business Leaders, he has dissected how we navigate intensity, diversity and complexity at any level and in any situation. That insight guides us to a greater level of awareness, an improved ability to regulate our own central nervous system, and a significant advantage in the behaviors that produce the results we are out to produce.
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-How childhood dreams manifested into Jeff's calling as a high-performance specialist...
-How Jeff quantifies and manages the central nervous system in high-stress scenarios...
-How Jeff has learned to disseminate what he's learned to others across the globe...
-Why unstable loads are the key to Jeff's training program...
-A rabbit trail on how to recover from Covid-induced brain fog...
-A gold-standard workout using Jeff's practices...
-Nutrition protocols recommended by Jeff for his workouts...
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Do you have questions, thoughts or feedback for Jeff Banman or me? Leave your comments at BenGreenfieldFitness.com/bruteforcepodcast and one of us will reply!
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast, cognitive function |
| 0:05.0 | impairing awareness and pairing decision-making, their rate of recovery, how fast it took them to get back to |
| 0:10.8 | probably 80% of their base. Who also is able to withstand rigors of |
| 0:14.4 | hypoxia, rigors of cold, rigors of heat, and rigors of unstable objects. You're gonna operate as a more |
| 0:19.2 | packed-full human being. Right, the more willing I am to extend myself into the unknown or the |
| 0:24.4 | levels of discomfort because I'm developing kind of an internal power or confidence. |
| 0:30.6 | Health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. |
| 0:41.3 | My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show. |
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