Muscle Intelligence — Longevity, Training & Human Performance with Ben Pakulski

Vitality and longevity often have a symbiotic relationship with sexual health and performance.  This interview with Dr. Judson Brandeis will teach you the best tools to maximize your performance, in and out of the bedroom.  This episode is a must-listen for every male. An award winning urologist and sexual medicine expert, Dr. Brandeis is also a clinical researcher, physician educator, caring clin...

After a 20-year bodybuilding career, everyone asks why I've changed the way that I train, and why I approach fitness and health so differently after retiring from competition.  As I continue to build upon the foundation of being lean, healthy, and muscular for life, longevity has become a huge focus for myself and the high-achieving individuals who go through Muscle Intelligence training. Today's...

Today's episode is a special one.  We've sifted through all of the amazing episodes we published in 2021 and picked out a handful of listener favorites to kick off 2022 in a BIG way. These "Year in Review" clips are from episodes that center around Ben's foundations of building a lean, healthy, and muscular body for life... and fundamentally all things that go into creating high performance. If yo...

What is the foundation that drives your purpose?  How can you identify and define your values?  Today's guest, Paul Epstein, is a leadership coach and speaker, best-selling author, and a former NFL and NBA business executive.  Paul guides businesses, organizations, and teams to find their "why" and tap into their innate talent and potential. As we approach 2022, this conversation is a truly specia...

Interested in connecting to your subconscious intelligence?  What about accessing deeper peace, creativity, intuition... and ultimately, the answers to navigate your own life's journey? It may surprise you that these states of heightened consciousness are truly accessible for everyone . Today's guest, Judith Pennington, combines the practices of deepening consciousness with the neuroscience of bra...

What do ALL successful weight loss stories have in common?  What is a driving factor behind balancing your blood sugar?  The answer might be simpler than you think... Today's guest, Dr. Ted Naiman, has spent almost 20 years as a primary care provider with a unique focus: diet and nutrition. Once a vegetarian who eventually transitioned to the Atkins diet, and later the paleo diet, Dr. Naiman is th...

Dr. Datis Kharrazian has spent decades paving a new way to health and wellness within the space of autoimmunity, long before the terms "gut microbiome" and "neuro-inflammation" were widely used.  Today, Dr. Kharrazian's understanding of neurological biomarkers, triggering environmental pollutants, and repopulation of the intestinal flora influences his highly-individualized approach to treatment w...

"If [the current pandemic] was JUST happening to you...you're the only person in the world who [it's] happening to...what would it be trying to tell you?" Philip McKernan, a pioneer in the space of helping people live lives of clarity and empowerment, urges us to step back and become aware of what changes we need to make to align with our deepest purpose. Philip works with entrepreneurs and busine...

Anyone can get in shape, but designing your lifestyle is the key to sustaining it: sustainability should trump speed .  In this highly requested solocast, Ben breaks down the high impact habits to prioritize creating your best body, and to easily make it long-lasting. Ready to be lean, healthy, and muscular for life?  It doesn't have to be hard, it just has to be consistent... Let's go!  Listen an...

Interested in accessing movement fluidity, optimal performance, and nervous system synergy in your own training or your athletes' training?  Both high achievers AND coaches can learn a lot from Andy O'Brien, a strength and health performance coach of over 25 years who has worked with numerous Olympic Gold Medalists, World Champions, and Major Sport MVPs. Andy and Ben delve in to everything from ph...

Feeling your attention being pulled in many directions, especially as the holidays have begun?  Time management is a challenge for many of us in this day and age!  Nir Eyal writes, speaks, and advises on how to get out of your own way, create simple habits to more effectively manage time, and ultimately become an indistractable human being -- a virtual superpower for any aspiring high performer. C...

Are you performing at 80%, even when you train for 100%?  Dan Garner has spent his career coaching elite athletes, and working with high performers, to find what he calls "performance anchors" -- Dan's term for hidden stressors that can have a slow-down effect on athlete training adaptations, and that can negatively impact anyone's optimal health journey. Tune in to Ben and Dan's discussion on som...

"The smarter you are, the harder your brain can work against you" - Christian Thibaudeau.  As a renowned strength coach for over two decades, Christian Thibaudeau approaches challenges as opportunities, and uses the nervous system as a way to help determine ideal exercise programming and nutrition.  In this honest, tell-all episode, Christian shares some of his own recent health challenges, and hi...

Have you ever found yourself procrastinating, self-sabotaging, or stuck in a cycle of habits that do not ultimately serve you?  What would it look like if you did things differently? Elliot Roe is a hypnotherapist who has worked with thousands of high performers to get to the root of learned behaviors and fears, unlock flawed beliefs, and ultimately remove mental roadblocks, to help them show up a...

Ready to break out of the status-quo training methodologies that are so commonly seen in the fitness industry?  Dr. Pat Davidson breaks down the journey from unconscious incompetency to automatic competency in this interview that takes a functionally integrated systems approach to training. Dr. Davidson's in-depth perspectives are a breath of fresh air for any coach, trainer, or athlete looking to...

"What are the fundamental programmed roots of your subconscious that gave rise to the identity of who you think you are, that is the precursor to all your thoughts, feelings, actions... and now, the outcome that you have?" -Peter Crone. Is it possible to reverse engineer freedom by unwinding your own belief systems?  Can becoming aware of your own patterns and conditioning take you out of the subc...

If you have recently found it difficult to obtain objective information to inform your own important decisions, this episode is for you.   Anthony G. Jay, PhD and Ben hone in on facts about DNA, viruses, and vaccination.   Dr. Jay brings a wealth of information, cultivated from years of lab research, about both the human body and the medical system.   Anthony G. Jay, PhD is the president and CEO o...

How can you effectively build new positive habits into your life?  How can you adhere to the small steps needed to achieve big goals?  Today's guest, Dr. BJ Fogg, is an expert in changing behavior for lasting impact. Dr. BJ Fogg is a behavior scientist at Stanford, and the founder of the university's Behavior Design Lab. BJ created the Tiny Habits® method, and after personally coaching over 60k pe...

Looking for a step-by-step process to lose fat, and make it sustainable?  Wondering what the biggest mistakes and misconceptions are in fat loss? In this solocast, I reveal that the process is simpler than we think... That all fat loss is, is a 2-step process with 4 influential factors... That it doesn't have to take hours a day, and it's all about what you're setting yourself up for. Stop telling...

At age 26, my first-ever mentor and role model, Alvin Brown, was the ultimate representation of a man who had achieved true greatness in all areas of his life: family, business, health and fitness.  This live studio-recorded conversation with Alvin continues our Muscle Intelligence Podcast focus on the highest levels of human potential! Over a decade after I met him, Alvin remains an exemplar of c...

How do you manage your own mindset, emotions and ultimately… your own personal growth? Ben's interview with Matt Beaudreau is not only a must-listen for anyone looking to raise their own consciousness and live their purpose, but also for anyone raising conscious, purposeful kids. Matt Beaudreau is a world-renowned education and personal development speaker. Matt also founded Acton Academy, a globa...

Joe DeFranco is a world-renowned strength and conditioning coach who has been training top athletes for over 20 years. Joe was inducted into the Personal Trainer Hall of Fame in 2015 and co-created a coaching certification program for elite athletes. He is recognized as an influential trendsetter in the world of fitness. Anyone looking to perform at their peak, and any coach focused on leading the...

Are you ready to adhere to your goals, stay with discomfort, and ultimately succeed in life? This solocast is derived from one of Ben's recent webinars on building a body that you love, and beginning a transformation. No matter what age you are, this episode provides a ton of value around building habits, commitment, and investing in yourself! You'll learn: What the smallest steps are towards a go...

Do you wonder what your true potential is—not only in the gym—but in every area of your life? Whether you are looking to push the realm of possibility within your fitness, health, consciousness, business, or relationships, this episode is a must-listen. Join Ben and Dr. Barry Morguelan (Dr. B)—our guest expert on transformation and energetics. After a defining moment in his career as a gastroenter...

How can we make decisions within exercise programming to ultimately facilitate transformative growth?  In today's solocast, Ben breaks down the relationship between signal and response, so that you can outline your ideal progression within any training discipline. Ben also answers some popular listener questions, including how he makes training-based decisions around his own supplementation, and w...