[Muscle Intelligence] How to Build Muscle and Purpose for Men Over 40 w/ Ben Pakulski, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash #715
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Ben Pakulski, "The Godfather of Intelligent Muscle Building", is widely considered the world's best muscle expert and top authority on physique optimization and lifestyle integration for high-achieving men over 40.
Ben is the CEO of the Muscle Intelligence Brand, host of the Muscle Intelligence Podcast, and creator of Mi40, the best selling brand that has helped millions of students, coaches and trainers transform their bodies and lives.
As an IFBB Professional Bodybuilder, Ben competed in 23 shows from 2008-2016.
He finished top 10 in the prestigious Arnold Schwarzenegger Classics Ohio for 6 consecutive years, placing 2nd in 2013. Ben reached the pinnacle of the bodybuilding world in 2012 and 2016, competing in the Mr. Olympia Contest and was considered one of the top 10 bodybuilders in the world for many years.
After a 20-year bodybuilding career, Ben found his new passion and redirected his focus towards helping executives, pro-athletes and entrepreneurs look, feel and perform at their best.
Ben now teaches his six pillars of a Lean, Healthy, and Muscular Body to men around the world, shifting the paradigm in the fitness industry towards the pursuit of integration of body, mind, and soul and the creation of a beautiful life.
When not teaching or training, Ben spends his time at home or traveling with his two angels, Benjamin Zane and Presley Skye.
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| 0:00.0 | Truck family this week on Barbell Strung Ben Piculski's back on the show you guys may know if you're a meathead like me you may know him from |
| 0:08.6 | Generation Iron back in the day what a great show I've only watched it like, you know, this is, |
| 0:15.2 | my daughter was telling you how many, |
| 0:17.1 | she would call it 11 billion infinity times. |
| 0:20.6 | That's how she speaks sometimes when she says big numbers. |
| 0:23.0 | Yo, Generation I was a sick show. |
| 0:26.0 | Ben was one of the main characters and they followed all the way to Olympia, |
| 0:30.0 | which is very cool, and he's also got an awesome perspective on just kind of like all levels of |
| 0:35.2 | performance all the way from standing on stage to Olympia to being a father. |
| 0:39.1 | We talk a ton about that and just kind of how to raise kids how to be a productive father raising children as well |
| 0:48.3 | as how training and being kind of like a man in your 40s and bringing purpose behind a lot of the stuff |
| 0:57.5 | and not just like focusing just purely on just like let's just build muscle to |
| 1:00.6 | build muscle but like why are we going and doing this stuff and having a |
| 1:03.4 | really insightful conversation around intelligent muscle building but also the purpose |
| 1:09.2 | behind all of it and I really enjoyed it. As always friends, make sure you go to rapid health report.com. |
| 1:15.0 | That's where Dr. E. Galpin and Dan Garner doing a free lab, lifestyle and performance analysis |
| 1:20.0 | that everybody inside rapid Health optimization will receive. |
| 1:24.6 | You can access that over at RapidHealth Report.com friends. |
| 1:27.2 | Let's go get in the show. |
| 1:28.3 | Welcome to Barbara Shrug. |
| 1:31.7 | I'm Anders V'm Anders Doug Larson. |
| 1:32.7 | Hopefully, Coach Travis Match will be bouncing in here in a second. |
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