Success leaves clues with Mark Bell
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.7 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Friend of the show and well-known figure in the fitness industry, Mark Bell joins Ben on today's episode to speak about success, momentum, training and family.
This is a great conversation between two successful former professional athletes who have taken the lessons they learnt in the gym and applied them to their life.
Mark Bell is the owner of Super Training Gym, CEO of Mark Bell Sling Shot and host of The Mark Bell Power Project.
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[01:02] - Today's guest Mark Bell
[02:19] - Episode sponsor HLTHcode MUSCLE10
[04:27] - How Mark is dealing with the loss of his mother
[07:38] - Weathering the storm
[09:18] - Being prepared for life
[11:13] - The power of self-belief
[14:25] - The story you tell yourself
[16:30] - The story of Mark Bell
[18:45] - Knowing who you are is knowing who you're not
[19:25] - Leveling up
[19:50] - Mark's mentor Louis Simmons
[20:25] - Mark's friend Stan Efferding
[21:40] - Having an even mind & skill acquisition
[24:10] - Crossing the t-s and dotting the i-s
[28:00] - Having mentors
[30:00] - Are you all in?
[32:10] - Brand certified in bodybuilding
[34:53] - Levels of experience
[40:35] - Ben's best training partner
[41:50] - Cheat reps
[43:50] - Mark's goals
[44:43] - Lat training
[46:50] - Who introduced Mark to Stoicism
[49:20] - Lessons learnt in the gym
[53:48] - What led Mark to stoicism
[55:25] - How Mark learns new things
[57:00] - From learning disability to entrepreneur
[01:12:00] - The power of interest
[01:13:00] - Ben and Mark's approach to parenting
[01:20:30] - Getting over the initial struggle
[01:26:00] - A simple yet powerful framework for your family
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Ben McColsky, the Musclellonsk, the Muscle Intelligence podcast. As always, |
| 0:15.3 | we frame this podcast, are living your greatest life in a body you love. And training is a big |
| 0:20.4 | piece of what we do. But understanding |
| 0:22.4 | a big picture framework, I think, is maybe one of the most useful things we could do as humans |
| 0:26.9 | to start to give us an idea of where to start, right? I think we're all looking for some blueprint |
| 0:32.2 | or some framework from which we can make decisions. I think a lot of people will mindlessly follow |
| 0:36.7 | people because they're telling you, hey, this is right and this is wrong. |
| 0:39.9 | And anyone who tells you something is right and wrong is probably full of, you know what, |
| 0:44.2 | and ultimately probably don't have the answer themselves, |
| 0:47.5 | but someone who can give you a framework from which to base your decisions is valuable. |
| 0:51.8 | And I really believe that success leaves clues. And someone who's |
| 0:55.7 | successful in multiple endeavors in life probably has something to teach you. So today's guest, |
| 1:01.3 | Mark Bell, joins me again as the creator of super training, as a creative slingshot to share |
| 1:06.8 | with us as wisdom around success as a power lififter, success as a bodybuilder, and obviously |
| 1:11.5 | success now as an entrepreneur, one of the things that's maybe shouldn't be overlooked. Success in his |
| 1:18.9 | family, success in his relationships. And I think that may be the single hardest thing to do in |
| 1:25.0 | life, or certainly one of them in modern day society, |
| 1:28.3 | because it's so easy to receive the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, isn't it? |
| 1:33.3 | Mark's values are incredibly high, and I respect this guy tremendously. |
| 1:38.9 | We talk a little bit about leadership. |
| 1:41.4 | We talk a little bit about Mark's stoic approach to life. |
| 1:44.1 | We talk about his mentors, Louis Simmons stoic approach to life. We talk about |
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