The Strong Coach — How to Motivate Your Clients w/ Ben Pakulski — 4
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ben Pakulski a.k.a. Pak-Man, is an IFBB professional bodybuilder and winner of the 2008 Mr. Canada competition. In the IFBB, he finished 2nd twice in 2008. He also placed 2nd in the 2013 Arnold Classic competition, and 11th in the 2012 Mr. Olympia contest, which was his first-ever.
Ben began his interest in nutrition at 12 years old, when he read about vegetarianism and experimented with it for two years. At 15, he started lifting weights in Macks Gym in Toronto. Today, he is an accoladed athlete, competitor, coach, creator of #1 Muscle Building program MI40, and creator and host of the Muscle Expert Podcast.
In this episode, we dive into many ideas and philosophies Ben has adopted, avoided, and learned from. They include, punishing oneself through training, escaping pain through exercise, chasing something outside of yourself, placing self worth on the person you become through the process - not the outcome, how to win at life through discipline, the power of “Thank You”, why your program and nutrition isn’t as important as I think you it is, coaching vs cheerleading, and much more.
Enjoy!
- Mike
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the strong coach, this is your host, Mike Bletsoh, and today we talk to Mr. Ben Pekolsky. |
| 0:07.1 | If you don't know who he is, give him a Google. The guy is one of the biggest |
| 0:10.7 | strongest dudes you're ever going to look at. Professional body builder, former, and we get into a |
| 0:17.5 | lot of things around how to motivate your clients appropriately and evolving your mind, |
| 0:23.4 | evolve your body. We get in some really deep subject matter, you're really going to enjoy |
| 0:28.3 | whether you're a coach or not. This is going to be a great show for you. And I want to tell a story, |
| 0:36.7 | not really a story, what am I talking about? I was wanting to tell stories on previous shows. |
| 0:41.9 | On this show, I want to talk about a question that somebody asked me, and that is |
| 0:48.8 | last week on Instagram, I posted, hey, if you're a coach and you're frustrated about anything, |
| 0:55.0 | let me know what it is. And I'm going to create some Instagram lives, and then which I'm also |
| 1:01.2 | repurposing and throwing on IGTV. So if you're not on Instagram TV yet, that's something to check out. |
| 1:07.7 | I'm posting stuff on there. And so is the shrug collective. So the question that was asked |
| 1:13.7 | of me last week is, how to invoke the same love for movement I have into my clients. So those |
| 1:22.7 | of us who are coaches or in the fitness industry, even if we didn't love movement in the beginning, |
| 1:28.2 | we end up falling in love with it at some point, or we get out of the business. And if you're one of |
| 1:33.7 | these people who is wondering, how do I get my clients to love movement as much as me? First |
| 1:39.2 | thing to really think about is, your clients will likely never love movement as much as you. |
| 1:46.0 | If they did, they'd likely be in the same industry as you. And so that may not be the case. And |
| 1:53.0 | some of them may fall in love with movement as much as you have. And another thing to realize is that |
| 2:00.1 | even though you think you love movement as much as you do, there's someone else who loves it more |
| 2:04.5 | than you. And they may be thinking the same thing about you. So what I think I want you to do is |
| 2:09.0 | remember back when you started training. And likely most people when they first started training, |
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