Hey everybody, Ben Bikolsky, Muscle Intelligence Podcast. I want to make this podcast a resource for men over 40 to understand how to train.

There's a lot of misinformation out there. In fact, this podcast was prompted or stimulated by a post I watched this week.

If some guy who's got a fantastic body trying to teach people in the gym how to train and I just like put my head out, my hand over my head.

And I was like, fuck, idiots leading the blind. And just get somebody's got a great body,

doesn't mean they know anything about exercise. And the thing I want you to know about exercise is

biomechanics, mechanics is the only objective thing in all of fitness. So everything else is

subjective. Everything is contextually relevant,

but movement, human movement is literally physics. It's literally measurable physics, which

means, yes, there is a right and a wrong way to train. This is not your opinion. It's not my

opinion. This is fact. Why is it fact? Because the muscles are little levers. And levers can be measured because

there's things called moment arms and there's distance away from the axis and there's the size of certain

pivot points, anchor points. We can measure mechanics. So while there's people out on YouTube telling you

how to train,

if they don't understand the physics of exercise,

the math of exercise,

they're just completely full of shit.

And because they look good,

like, man, this guy built awesome pecks.

He must know what he's doing.

No, he's genetically blessed, taking a shitload of gear, and all he's doing,

sure he's training hard, great, but maybe you're not him. Maybe you're not the same mechanical

person, and maybe you're not me, but I don't teach what works for me. I teach principles.

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