This “Bodybuilding Yogi” Explains Why Mindset Trumps All | Ben Pakulski (Replay)
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🗓️ 28 December 2023
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| 0:00.0 | To see the people who truly thrive in life or the people who are willing to do the things and no one else is willing to do. And that's including the ability to sit and meditate for an hour. And that's including the ability to go to the deepest depths of the hardest sets in the gym. And those are the people that succeed, man. And most people aren't able or willing to do that because of the story they tell themselves as to why they can't. Oh, this hurts or that hurts. I don't have the genetics. or I don't have the time or the ability. |
| 0:22.9 | There's all these stories you tell yourself around what you can't. And if there's a story behind what you can't, you must. Like I said, if you can't, therefore you must. So it's so important to challenge your own bullshit rules. |
| 0:40.8 | Everybody, welcome to Health Theory. |
| 0:42.7 | Today's guest is Ben Pocolsky. |
| 0:46.3 | He's an IFBB professional bodybuilder who won the Mr. Canada competition in 2008 and competed in both of bodybuilding's most prestigious shows, |
| 0:52.5 | the Mr. Olympia and the Arnold Classic, where he placed in the |
| 0:55.9 | top 10, three years running, making it as high as second place. He's been featured in countless |
| 1:01.0 | magazines, including Inside Fitness, Flex, Muscle Meg, and Fitness RX, to name but a few. And dude, |
| 1:07.9 | while you have the pedigree of your typical professional bodybuilder I would say you |
| 1:12.7 | are anything but typical and I love that you call yourself a bodybuilding yogi yeah what do you |
| 1:19.3 | mean by that so for 20 years in my life as I was just telling you I was very myopically focused |
| 1:25.6 | on this objective of I want to be the best |
| 1:28.7 | bodybuilder in the world. I want to be the biggest bodybuild in the world. And I would be that, you know, win Mr. Olympia. And I accomplished a lot of cool things, as you know, mentioned in the intro. And I accomplished a lot of goals. I accomplished a lot more than most people ever believed I would. I was that kid who didn't have the genetics. |
| 1:42.6 | I was that kid who didn't come from the right family. |
| 1:44.5 | I didn't come from the financial background. |
| 1:46.3 | I came from Canada. |
| 1:47.1 | So most |
| 1:47.4 | people like, oh, you can't do it. And I did it. So like, if you had told me when I was 15 years old that I get there, walking on the Olympia stage, people, I would be like, oh, that'll be my life dream and I'll be satisfied and fulfilled. |
| 1:58.2 | And I was probably the most empty I ever was in my life |
| 2:00.8 | walking on stage with Mr. Olympia. |
| 2:02.3 | I remember not wanting to take off my shirt the day before, satisfied and fulfilled. And I was probably the most empty I ever was in my life walking on stage |
| 2:01.6 | with Mr. Olympia. I remember not wanting to take off my shirt the day before because I felt so |
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