Ben Pakulski - The Bodybuilding Yogi: How To Unify The Mind & Body

00:00 | Trailer
02:51 | Brian’s thoughts on the episode
03:38 | Brian’s introduction
04:19 | Ben Pakulski loves multicultural London
06:25 | There’s more to life than this
12:21 | Using fitness as an escape
15:44 | Training in the gym is unconscious effort, so create different avatars
22:59 | Training in the gym as an antidepressant
28:46 | When Ben discovered Yoga and how it changed him
39:41 | If I can’t, I must
43:13 | Why Ben advocates focussing on the basics of breath, meditation and walking
51:11 | Heart rate variability, what it is and how it relates to the parasympathetic and sympathetic
56:31 |Fasting and food
1:03:05 | The three important things when exercising for muscle
1:11:49 | | Why gratitude is important to Ben
1:14:36 | How he works with his intuition
1:16:28 | What excites him most about human optimisation in the next 5 years
1:23:07 | Success secrets
1:23:45 | Ben’s daily routine
1:25:40 | Ben’s superpower
1:26:57 | The best and worst days of his life
1:30:59 | What scares Ben
1:33:51 | What we would be surprised to learn about Ben Pakulski
1:36:02 | What keeps him awake at night
1:38:52 | What his epitaph will say
1:41:03 | Telephone call to the 20 years old Ben Pakulski
1:42:39 | Best advice he ever received
1:44:06 | Advice to the 20 years old listening
1:45:57 | The irony of life is that sometimes your biggest curse is your biggest blessing, but you get to choose
1:48:37 | Brian’s summing up.