Matt Cooper: Psychedelic Performance — The Bledsoe Show #103
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Matt Cooper, a.k.a Coop, is a nutrition consultant, strength & conditioning coach, and sport scientist from California. Driven by an obsession to expand human performance, Coop spends his time researching, experimenting, doing nerdy things, and building better humans in general at Stand Out Performance (Fast Twitch LA) in Compton, California.
Coop's own personal journey began in athletics and fitness, until poor health and mental states befell him at an early age. This lead to him to become his own practitioner, and fuels his current work, marrying functional medicine and human performance to create suprahumans.
In this episode, we talk about psychedelics and human performance, training from a holistic perspective, mega-dosing and bio hacking with nutrition, why stress is a habit that can eventually embedded trauma into your nervous system, signs of overtraining and what this does to your equilibrium, tips to athletes who have hit a wall, how psychedelics can improve athletic qualities by accelerating learning skills, and more.
To learn more about what Matt and I are doing, go to PsychedelicPerformance.com
Enjoy!
- Mike
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| 0:00.0 | Check your email folks. I'm sitting on email every Monday morning talking about |
| 0:04.8 | it's happening in my personal life what's happening with the shrug collective and I also put all the links |
| 0:09.8 | to the stuff that we talk about in the show because if you're driving or working out you're obviously not |
| 0:14.9 | looking up what we're talking about and I want you to be able to go check it out. So go check your email |
| 0:20.4 | if you're not subscribed to the shrug collective newsletter yet go to shrug collective.com |
| 0:24.7 | You can knock that out and today we're talking about a new tool for improving skill development |
| 0:29.6 | and it's being talked about quite a bit these days and people don't know what to do with the information yet |
| 0:35.7 | Psychedelics are being talked about a lot and it's in regard to cognitive and emotional development and healing |
| 0:42.6 | But what about improving the speed at which we learn physical skills? |
| 0:46.2 | This is a conversation that's happening by the fringe and advanced thinkers, scientists and coaches in the fitness industry |
| 0:53.3 | Probably didn't know that. I am fortunate today to be sitting down with one of those coaches who has invested a lot |
| 0:59.6 | of time and attention into this subject. I heard him speak at a conference this last summer and what he had to say really |
| 1:06.6 | Rung true for me and my own personal experience and he had a lot of science to back it up. |
| 1:12.5 | This coach is Matt Cooper. Not only does he drops major knowledge bombs on today's show |
| 1:18.0 | but he's put together a presentation specifically on this topic at psychedelicperformance.com |
| 1:23.8 | for free. I enjoy the presentation and you will too. |
| 1:28.8 | Additionally, Matt put together a box of supplements for those of you that are microdosing out there. |
| 1:33.9 | This pack of supplements will enhance your micro as well as make the result you experience more sticky. |
| 1:39.9 | So make sure to go over to psychedelicperformance.com for more information. |
| 1:44.8 | And since we're talking about cognitive enhancement, I get to tell you about quality of mine from Neurohacker. |
| 1:50.8 | I've been using their products since before they were selling online. |
| 1:54.2 | The guy who formulated it came over to my house a couple years ago and he pitched a vision of a supplement |
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