Stop Training Like a Robot: Build Real Athletic Skills
Mark Bell's Power Project
Power Project Studios
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Most people train in two lanes: cardio machines and lifting weights. In this episode, we zoom out and talk about the “full adult athlete”, the overlooked skills that keep you capable, coordinated, and feeling young.We get into:1. Why you don’t need a perfect program once you’ve trained long enough2. “Capacities” beyond force production: coordination, reflexes, balance, finesse, and control3. Jump rope and hopping for tendon strength, rhythm, and athletic bounce4. Rope flow, juggling, and micro-dosing skill work without living in the gym5. Nasal breathing, weighted vest walks, and making brutal conditioning more productive6. How to stop feeling worse as you get older: expand your movement “scope” and keep exploringIf you’re training for life, not just the bench, this one’s for you.Special perks for our listeners below!🥩 HIGH QUALITY PROTEIN! 🍖 ➢ https://goodlifeproteins.com/ Code POWER to save 20% off site wide, or code POWERPROJECT to save an additional 5% off your Build a Box Subscription!🩸 Get your BLOODWORK/TRT/PEPTIDES! 🩸 ➢ https://marekhealth.com and use code "POWERPROJECT" for 10% off Self-Service Labs and Guided Optimization®.🧠 Methylene Blue: Better Focus, Sleep and Mood 🧠 Use Code POWER10 for 10% off!➢https://troscriptions.com?utm_source=affiliate&ut-m_medium=podcast&ut-m_campaign=MarkBel-I_podcastBest 5 Finger Barefoot Shoes! 👟 ➢ https://Peluva.com/PowerProject Code POWERPROJECT15 to save 15% off Peluva Shoes!Self Explanatory 🍆 ➢ Enlarging Pumps (This really works): https://bit.ly/powerproject1Pumps explained: https://youtu.be/qPG9JXjlhpM?si=JZN09-FakTjoJuaW🚨 The Best Red Light Therapy Devices and Blue Blocking Glasses On The Market! 😎➢https://emr-tek.com/Use code: POWERPROJECT to save 20% off your order!👟 BEST LOOKING AND FUNCTIONING BAREFOOT SHOES 🦶➢https://vivobarefoot.com/powerproject🥶 The Best Cold Plunge Money Can Buy 🥶 ➢ https://thecoldplunge.com/ Code POWERPROJECT to save $150!!➢ https://withinyoubrand.com/ Code POWERPROJECT to save 15% off supplements!➢ https://markbellslingshot.com/ Code POWERPROJECT to save 15% off all gear and apparel!
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| 0:00.0 | We've transitioned into some different workouts in 2025. We're not just lifting, but we're developing all these other capacities. Implementing some of these things, which I think doesn't cost you a lot of time, can introduce some fun into your training. These things can be microdose pretty easily. I don't spend a lot of time comparing myself to others. I just compare myself to where I was before. No, no, I'm not onroads. You, you are. Let's make that clear. People think my wife's on some shit. |
| 0:28.0 | I know, you know, I think we both, speaking of transitioning, I think we've transitioned into some |
| 0:33.7 | different workouts in 2024, 2025, and we've got the new year coming up, so I'm sure we'll be doing |
| 0:40.8 | some different stuff. You were kind of just telling me that, and I'm a little similar, that you |
| 0:46.2 | don't really have a program. No, no, I don't. How the hell you know what to do? Yeah. You know, |
| 0:52.5 | well, I think one thing is both of us haven't had a program for a long |
| 0:55.7 | time, right? We've, we've been training for a while, so we know the things we need to do. |
| 1:01.1 | The benefits of being on steroids, everybody. No, no, I'm not on steroids. You, you are. I am not. |
| 1:06.6 | Let's make that clear. People just, people think because I hang around you, I'm on some shit. |
| 1:10.8 | People think my wife's on some shit, which is great. She's like, I don't care. Hey, if they think I'm on, that's great. |
| 1:18.6 | No, no. But, you know, I think there are things that, there are capacities that I'm interested in developing. Their capacities you're interested in developing, um, weaknesses that I'm working on like with my relative strength, |
| 1:32.0 | trying to do a lot of more gymnastic things. That's a weakness of mine. So I'm working on that. |
| 1:36.8 | Um, but it's been really cool learning from a bunch of people because, um, we're able to just, I'm able to just kind of like |
| 1:45.9 | take my time and develop skills. There's, there's a focus on, you know, when we were talking |
| 1:51.8 | to Rob Wilson, I asked him about like the focus on force production because a gym is set up in a way |
| 1:57.9 | where you have your cardiovascular machines and then you have a bunch |
| 2:02.0 | of stuff that's going to allow you to lift weights and resistance train. And resistance |
| 2:06.4 | training is powerful. I mean, shoot, who's a set's a five? Who is he? Who is he? Five five? |
| 2:12.8 | Rippo. Rip a toe. Rip it toe, right? Rip it's so like, you know, for him, it's like that, that's, that's what's important. |
| 2:20.8 | But I do think that there are. He barely even liked the Benover Rove from my remember. |
| 2:25.5 | Thought the trap bar was an abomination. I love the way he said abomination. And I think he invented |
| 2:30.9 | the suitcase deadlift. No, that was, John, no, that was Dan John. |
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