Tools for Becoming a Peak Performer #165
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.7 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this solo episode, I walk you through the tools that are - in my opinion - prerequisites in becoming a a peak performer.
Listen to hear what I do with the top-level athletes I am coaching, what I learnt through my own pro bodybuilding career, and what the incredible guests and experts that we've had on this podcast have taught me.
Please look at the timestamps below for the extensive list of topics covered on today's show.
Mentioned:
Ryan Smith: M.I. Episode 164 - Epigenetic Aging and Aging Backwards
Dr. Jay Wiles: M.I. Episode 162 - A Deep Dive on HRV
Dr. Andrew Huberman: M.I. Episode 74 - Understand How Your Brain Works
Patrick McKeown: M.I. Episode 161 - The Power of your Breath
and M.I. Episode 23: Relieving Stress, Improving Cognitive Function, and Increasing Performance Through Breath
Brian Mackenzie: M.I. Episode 60: The Art of Breath and Human Performance
James Nestor: M.I. Episode 136: The Physiology of Breath, and It's Life-Changing Effects
Timestamps:
[0:22] Today's topic
[2:00] My own experience as a high-level athlete
[3:00] Looking at the body as a whole
[5:00] What determines your ceiling?
[6:05] Start creating a checklist.
[7:00] Start testing!
[8:10] Look at objective data.
[9:10] Genetic data
[9:45] Stop guessing.
[10:06] Measure your HRV.
[11:55] How to choose your recovery modalities.
[14:05] Train your aerobic system.
[16:36] Energy production
[17:44] Breath work
[20:55] CNA & central fatigue
[22:48] BLUBlox - use code MUSCLE to get 15% off
[24:00] Cellular health & organic acid test
[25:05] Movement & mastering your skill
[29:00] What to do when progress stalls.
[30:50] Control your mind.
[34:20] Mobility
[35:00] Intentional discomfort
[36:50] Detriments to the high-performance mindset
[38:12] Measure your progress.
[39:09] Projects Ben is currently working on
[40:00] The book Ben is reading
[40:30] The podcasts Ben listens to
[41:33] Belcampo - use the code MUSCLE to get 20% off
[44:30] Disclaimer
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Muslim Intelligence Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Ben Bikolsky with a special Q&A version of this podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | I love doing these. |
| 0:19.0 | I love talking about the things that |
| 0:21.1 | excite me most. And today's topic is no different. For about 20 years, I aspired to be the |
| 0:28.0 | greatest bodybuilder in the world. And there's a lot of boxes that needed to be checked |
| 0:33.0 | to ultimately become what we'll call peak performer. And there's a lot of people out there |
| 0:37.5 | who aspire to peak performance in their realm, whatever it may be for you. It may be sport. It may be |
| 0:43.5 | parenting. It may be business. But high achievers have a very particular mindset. And today I want to get |
| 0:52.4 | into some of the best practices of being a high performer. |
| 0:57.0 | I also want to get into giving you a perspective on all of the systems that really need to be |
| 1:02.9 | checked and looked at. I'm almost like the gauges in your car. I mean like, okay, where are these |
| 1:09.0 | gauges right now? And how do I use objective and |
| 1:11.6 | subjective measures to ultimately determine how well this machine is operating? And I think as many |
| 1:19.2 | coaches out there become experts in very particular areas, they tend to just focus on that area. |
| 1:25.9 | And I was guilty of this for a very, very long time, |
| 1:28.3 | thinking that one thing is most important and you kind of latch on to it, |
| 1:31.3 | you go, oh, this is most important. |
| 1:33.3 | Maybe it is for you in that time. |
| 1:35.3 | But as you evolve as a coach, you start to realize how everything works like a complex system, |
| 1:39.3 | which means when you insert one input, it often has negative repercussions in other ends of the system or other aspects of the system. |
| 1:48.7 | So today I want to discuss some of the best practices that I've implemented that I currently implement with some of my performance clients |
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