Q&A: Ben and fitness coach Chris Spearman talk training

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Expert, Ben, 40, Pakulski, Alternative Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Intelligence, Biohacking, Mi, Intelligent, Mi40, Nutrition, Diet, Hormones, Muscle, Exercise

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

For today's Q&A session, we’re switching it up. Ben is chatting with health and fitness expert, Dr. Chris Spearman but Chris will be the one asking the questions today. From a Ph.D. in Cancer Research to a global cover model, Chris is now one of the world’s leading online fitness coaches and the CEO of Fitness Coach Freedom. Ben being an IFBB Bodybuilder himself and having trained Chris, he is well versed in the area of fitness and training. Chris is here today to pick Ben’s brain about his training. During this episode, they discuss what training looked like during Ben’s peak, during the ascension and now during the new mountain, he’s transcending. They’re each a very different point in life and it can be very helpful to other people going through their journey. They also talk about the psychological aspect linked to training and the benefits to breathing awareness and meditation.

Timestamps

Ben’s training right now and how it fits into his life with family and business. [2:44]
Advice Ben has for others - making a constant effort on intelligent muscle building. [6:40]
In order to optimize growth it has to be perfect practice not just repetitive practice. [08:38]
Putting force through a muscle without changing anything except for internal stimulus. [11:10]
Meditation and why training is your best time to be present. [16:35]
Would Ben still have trained this way if he had to go back in time. [19:58]
Understanding progressive overload. [24:03]
Distance: moment arm - from the line of force to the axis of rotation. [25:30]
Advice to people who are hesitant about doing group training. [27:15]
Building muscle by going through the different stages of mobility, stability and skill. [29:50]
Where to go to learnt he fundamentals of muscle building . [32:39]
Smaller, simple exercises people can do to be more aware of their breathing. [36:03]
Anxiety is not a character trait, it's a state and you can fix it. [39:39]
If Ben applied the knowledge he knows now, 10 years ago, what would the outcome be. [43:29]
The significance of breathing in waist control. [45:22]
The ability of someone to reach the heights that they’re physically and mentally capable of. [46:50]
Values in discipline to be developed without having to experience the pain of failure. [50:19]
Getting out of that victim mentality and acknowledging it in your life. [52:06]
Rapid, immediate, drastic action toward fixing it. [55:55]
Hear more about the Muscle Camps, what it’s all about it and the finalized dates. [58:05]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody.
0:18.0	I'm sitting with my good friend, Dr Chris Spearman and he decided that he
0:23.0	wants to riddle me with some questions with respect to training. So you guys don't always get a lot of
0:27.9	perspective for me anymore anyways on the ins and outs of training. And I don't know if I've
0:33.6	ever done a training podcast per se. Like I talk a lot about training intermittently on the
0:38.5	Q&As, but it's never specifically directed. For those of you guys that don't know Dr. Chris
0:43.3	Sparman, he is now the CEO of Fitness Coach Freedom. So he's helping fitness coaches all around
0:50.8	the world, create a life of freedom, and ultimately scale your business online. And he's doing a really, really good job. We spent a couple weeks here in Columbia,
0:58.4	masterminding, optimizing growth strategies and understanding, really how building an online business
1:05.8	goes. And Chris and I have done some really, really fun collaborations and lots coming for
1:09.4	you guys in the future. But we said, we're going to sit down this evening and have a little chat about training.
1:14.3	So obviously, my training in the last four years has changed a lot.
1:18.3	So we can certainly talk about what it looked like during my peak, what it look like during
1:23.8	the ascension, what it looked like on the peak.
1:25.5	And then now what it looks like kind of in the new mountain that I'm transcending, right? And it's all very, very different points in life.
1:32.5	And I think each one can be valuable to some person out there at a different point in their
1:36.5	journey, right? There's many people out there who are ascending. And they're like, I want to
1:40.1	get bigger and I want to grow and I'm not when I dominate and there's people who are possibly at the top of the mountain you know I'm as good as I want to be and I want to maintain this
1:47.7	and then there's the people who are going well now I realize my own mortality is a thing and I want to
1:52.5	just be healthy vibrant thrive and be strong you know strong and lean so we could talk at any point in that
1:59.5	journey that you decide yeah welcome man thanks for thank, thank you. I wouldn't have thought a few years
2:04.2	ago that would be sitting in Columbia talking to you about training. Well, you do. So I was on Chris's
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