Q&A: Ben's Christmas "hack" and the importance of creating your own grand vision

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

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

For today's Q&A session, Ashleigh and Ben are tackling your queries and questions and throwing in some advice and ranting for good measure! They discuss stretching, bodyweight set points and the importance of beliefs. We also get to hear about Ben's stay in Colombia and why he is having such a great time planning for next year. A sizeable portion of today's show is spent considering how much our beliefs and long term goals affect our results, with both Ashleigh and Ben strongly arguing Christmas, how much he hates all the lights and the way in which he is attempting to hack the festive season this year for his and his family's benefit.

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Timestamps

Ben's experiences in Colombia so far! [1:53]
Thoughts on the importance of stretching, pre and post-workout. [5:52]
Bodyweight set point; what it means to move away from homeostasis. [10:05]
The way in which your beliefs impact your progress and results. [19:58]
Repetition, belief and the impact of micro-victories. [24:01]
This week's healthy habit; vehement pursuit of long-term goals. [26:58]
Why Ashleigh is so excited about her new BLUblox glasses! [32:19]
Ben's Christmas hack; getting away from the materialism and too many lights. [35:07]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back.
0:18.0	Mastal Expert Q&A with my wonderful co-host, Ashley Wannhouton. What's up, Ash?
0:24.8	Thanks, Ben. Can we talk really quickly about pronouncing our last names? Because remember I was
0:29.0	laughing about this the last time we chatted about how we both have last names that are somehow
0:33.2	like impossible to pronounce by anybody, even though I think they're pretty straightforward.
0:37.5	Like your last name is like you have to just say it phonetically. Like I don't know how else you'd
0:41.7	say it other than Pekulski, right? Do you hear people say it something weird? Yeah. And I often
0:46.5	question the literacy. Yeah. Fair. These are people who only text. So they never actually
0:52.0	had to learn how to read, I guess. Yes. Oh yeah. Exactly. I don't know. But yeah, it's very phonetic. It's always been that way. It's never changed. And yet people have always screwed it up. It's very surprising.
1:03.1	And what, like, nationality is it? Polish. My dad's Polish. Polish. Okay. All right. So for the record, everybody, my name is not Alicia Van Hootten. It's Ashley Van Houten.
1:15.6	Van Houten, here's how you can remember. This is Dutch and O-U-T spells out. So it's Van Houten.
1:22.1	And yes, my first name is spelled a little bit different, but if you just take two seconds to look at how it's spelled,
1:29.0	you won't see very clearly that it's Ashley. So there we go. We'll put those to rest once and
1:34.4	for all. Ashley Van Houten, Ben Pekulski. Let's go. I appreciate you doing that. I had to get it off my
1:40.4	chest. I had to get off my chest. It's done. I think that segment should become our next Instagram post. Just that. Okay. Impossible last names. Yeah. All right. I'm into it. How's Columbia?
1:52.0	It's really awesome. You know, you're effectively in a city that was cut out of the middle of the jungle.
1:57.1	You're surrounded by mountains and jungle. And it's really nice. I'm honestly kind of
2:01.8	staying in my own little bubble because one, I don't have the confidence or the ability to
2:07.9	speak the language to go out into the mountains and into the kind of the remote areas because
2:12.0	I'm not so sure. But downtown where we are in Medellin is absolutely phenomenal. We have this
2:17.3	beautiful apartment.
2:18.4	There's a huge yard and a huge deck and literally everything we need within walking distance.
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