I Taught A Pro-Football Team How To Optimize Their Bodies for Game Day!

All right, so I'm gonna be speaking to the BC Lions on this trip.

Xander Horvath running free now through the secondary turns on the Jets. And in his first start, Xander Horvath punctuates a monster night for the BC Lions.

Got a nice car. Thank you for coming to Vancouver to speak to our team and teach them. Roark under pressure finds a path to escape.

And now he's gonna take off. There's a playing on the field. Rourke all the way down to the 20. Rourke to the 10. Look at the hands. I've got it. The remarkable Rourke strike to buy on the defensive side out as well. Take it away. Intercepted CU later.

Touchdown BC got some cool BC Lions football gear. Football shorts. Look at this cool BC Lions hat. Sick colors.

Ben is a world renowned health expert, biohacker and New York Times best selling authority specializing in human performance and longevity. Whether through his books, speaking one on ones. Ben's mission is simple. To help people become boundless, living with energy, clarity and unstoppable drive.

That was pretty good. Yeah. It's yours. Yeah.

Congratulations.

Not only is my master's degree in physiology and biomechanics from University of Idaho, but I have eaten, breathed and lived how to get the most out of the human machine for the past 20 years.

You are unbelievable. Great speaker. I can tell people from their engagement it was just tremendous.

So thank you very much. Yeah, I guess I better start rooting for the BC Lions now.

All right,

O Canada, here we go. One of the first things I do when I arrive, take out this guy stainless steel water bottle. Saves me like $7.99 from having to buy FIJ the airport. This one's cool. It's called a Mobot because you can actually do body work with it. Like this doubles as a foam roller. So if I'm like tight while I'm traveling, just like take this, put it underneath the spine and do like all your normal foam rolling you can use as a lever underneath the back. I am one of those guys who always gets the funny looks at the airport because like I never sit down. I'm always, you know, stretching, doing push ups with my phone calls. The top pops off. Just about every airport has a good water filter. It's not quite, you know, 14 stage reverse osmosis with oxygenation and structuring, but does the trick. I'll occasionally cheat on Diet Coke. It's my one travel vice, but for the most part this works pretty well. Sunshine grounding feels good. Made it across the border into our northern neighbor country Ready for some poutine and politeness. Secret weapon for getting laptop work done in the back of an Uber, which I do a lot of one of these anti radiation laptop pads so I don't fry my balls. I hydrate. I hydrate like an animal. When I travel. I mean at home I probably drink at least my body weight in ounces divided by two, so I weigh about 190 pounds. So I'll have like a good like 95 ounces of water at home or more if I'm hitting the sauna when I travel. Like I probably get like 150 ounces on a travel day like this. Like I'll bang through four of these just during a typical day of travel, working in the back of an Uber, if I'm writing a book, I'm literally like writing a book, like just working on chapters. People are like, oh, what's like riding routine? I'm like, whenever I'm able to.

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My first New York Times bestseller. I wrote the entire thing like in the back of like tuck tucks and Ubers and taxis and all over the world. And you know, you just gotta write when you can write. And then like right now, one of the things I do during the week is I help people with their blood work and their labs and do consultations. And so I'll spend time just like doing lab reviews and back in the car and taking my notes. Thanks, brother. Have a good one. I know this hotel. I've been here before. It happens. When you travel as much as I do, you get like day job visit. One of the first things I do, my wife gives me trouble for this is if it's on the floor on the way up to my room. I check out the gym in the pool. To me, that's like something to check out. The restaurant, the bar, the rooftop. I'm just like gym and pool. Let me wrap my head around it, that's all I ask. They got a saltwater swimming pool here, which will be great in the morning. You go for a little swim. I find that if I know what I'm getting up to in the morning when I'm traveling, it just rips me out of bed. When I travel, I just always look for something fresh. Good amount of antioxidants, something that might keep me from doing my usual walk to the grocery store. Hotels are always so kind. They always leave a few diabetic treats and champagne, which is always a waste on me. A few things that I do right away when I check into a hotel room first, I'm a cold sleeper. 65 One thing I will do. It's so beautiful in here right now. But usually I'll open up the windows to get a little bit of fresh air, get some of like the moldiness out of the hotel room. So if I'm able to open the windows, always air things out. What is in my suitcase when I travel? Typical travel kit for me. Good set of goggles, which is great, especially here, which is a great swimming pool. And the supplements that you didn't see in my little airport supplement travel pack, my digestive stuff. So I travel with protein digesting enzymes, magnesium for sleep and slippery bowel movements, and some gluten guardian. Not that I would ever do this in case I get bread. And I always have some kind of a secret weapon, make me think faster and give a presentation. It varies, but this is like Apex. This is kind of like a Navy SEAL modafinil drug, but only lasts like 12 hours. So that'll keep me popping for a day of work. These are little portable red lights. And I'll use these if I've got any aches or pains, like I'm healing up from an ankle injury right now. And then I also keep them on the side of the bed because these will double as a way for me to use red light at night so that I can have the main lights flipped off. And then even when I wake up in the morning, I'll sometimes put a little bit on my tummy or my back. So I'm a huge fan of some kind of portable red light. I travel with VFR bands. This is called a Katsu kit. And if I'm staying at a hotel that has a decent gym like the one I'm in now, I won't use this, but it's always in my travel bag. You just flip this on. And what it will allow you to do when you put these straps on your arms, for example, for a workout, is you'll then hook up the little pump that it comes with to the arms, right? And then you select how much pressure that you want using the screen. In terms of the amount of sku, which is just a measurement of like millimeters of mercury, it'll pump them up like a blood pressure cuff. And it will allow you to simulate like a super heavy workout without actually having any weights. My whole fitness routine or my whole fitness kit literally weighs like two pounds. So then I've got a door frame suspension strap like this and an elastic band. So door frame suspension strap, let's say I want to get A workout in the morning. I don't want to go to the gym. I can just literally put this, like, right here. And then, for example, this will allow me to do pull ups like this. You know, I can stand up, do, like, arm curls like this inside the door this, and do, like, knee ups like this. So you can get like a whole full door frame workout with one of these things. But 20 bucks on Amazon, my little travel kit comes in here when I just don't have the time to hit the gym or I just don't want to leave my hotel room. That's pretty much the what's in Bins suitcase tour. A little sleep kit here that I travel with, that I used to sleep on airplanes. Pretty simple and straightforward. By my bedside, I got a sleep mask. I got my mouth guard, which helps keep my mouth in a good position while I sleep. I have this little Apollo wristband or ankle band that'll like, vibrate and make these cool haptic sensations that help me to fall asleep. I've got a red light headlamp in case I want to get up to pee at night without turning the lights on. And I have my little earbuds in case I really need to cover up noise. And then I've got my foam earplugs. That's it. That's about all I need to sleep all night, right? So I've got the room cooled, I've got it dark. I've taken care of the air quality. I've got sound. So those are like, my principles for a good night of sleep. So this hotel room is ready for a solid eight hours. My body's ready for a good workout tomorrow. I've scoped out the menu. I know what I'm going to get to eat. Some good antioxidants and fish and sweet potato. I'll probably go for a little walk in the sunshine here to get a little more grounding and earthing. And that's day one of travel, baby. All right, so I'm gonna be speaking to the BC Lions on this trip. Got a nice car. Thank you for coming to Vancouver to speak to our team and teach them. Got some cool BC Lions football gear. Football shorts. Look at this cool BC Lions hat. Sick colors. Yeah, I guess I better start rooting for the BC lines now. First things I do when I get somewhere is I call my kids and my wife. I travel a lot, a lot of big cities. You know, Vancouver, la, New York, Toronto, Dubai, Tokyo, you name it. I'll sometimes just put on a good audiobook. You Know, make some phone calls and just get lost in the city. I love to walk, you know, I'll sometimes get like 25,000 steps a day when I'm tooling around a city, you know, especially after you've been flying. It's a good way to get some fresh air. It's a good way to kind of get the lay of the land. Good way to see the people. Probably my favorite part about traveling, just walking around cities and checking stuff out and listening to some good information or talking to some loved ones. I spend a lot of time walking around cities. So I'm getting ready to go go downstairs to do a little work and review my presentation and everything for dinner. So I put my digestive enzymes in here and grab those. I grab my room key, I grab my computer. Games with myself when I'm waiting for a elevator. Do air squats. It's all about non exercise activity thermogenesis. If it's a slow elevator, you get sore. Food, sleep, get up and do my job. Maybe this is an old hotel. If we got stuck on the old elevator would be like the funniest thing ever. I'm a speaker. I speak to people about health.

Oh really? Yeah. Yeah.

That's interesting. Are we in the bottom? No, this is the fourth floor.

That's it.

All right, have a good night. All right, take care. You too. Time to play. I still haven't shed my my triathlon day habit of A loving swimming and B being okay being a westerner in a speedo. Flipped my phone too far away because sometimes I get ideas when I'm swimming. I used to keep a notepad by the side of the pool to write them down. Sometimes I'll finish a workout and I'll have like 10 new ideas. Starting off today's workout with core and cardio, move on to lifting some weights. Sometimes when I travel I go full body just because you don't know the next time you're getting a chance to work out. I always include at least one exercise when I'm working out that involves going from the floor to upright, typically while weight bearing just because it's such a good anti aging move. I have a habit of taking a cold shower. A lot of people freak out and they think they're not going to like get the benefits of a workout if they take a cold shower. It's just honestly it's a good way to make sure you're not pitting out and sweating the rest of the the day. And I just feel like it's really refreshing. I Don't really trust most hotels soaps and shampoos and I have a bunch of like forever chemicals and stuff in them. So I always travel with just like a good simple bar.

So.

Yeah, that's cold.

Oh man. Cold shower clears the head. Sometimes I'll take like four or five

a day when I'm traveling.

Call me crazy, but I have like this weird thing I do before I go give a talk is I kind of turn on my brain for the left and right hemisphere. So your right knee to left elbow, left knee to right elbow. And others do like 30 of these. For some reason I find it just kind of like, especially after I've been sitting down checking emails, burning up my eyeballs on the computer, I'll just look at something at the horizon out the hotel room and just do this for like a minute. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with like left and right hemispheric brain coordination. All these little habits that I have during the day is I'll do these and then I'll do 10 push ups and then I'm ready for action. All right, let's do this. The hardest part about speaking at events is sometimes you're supposed to meet people in lobbies and you don't know what they look like. I do know there's a sprinter van around here somewhere picking us up. So. Good morning, Ben. How are you? I'm Dwayne to know, president of the team. Good to meet you, man.

Thanks. Thanks for coming.

Thanks for having me up.

Excellent. All right, they're all in here.

Ready?

Go.

Slide that up your back. I'm introing. You got a nice hat on. Perfect. Good. Just making up. No, no, I'm going word for word. I don't. Word for word. All right, all right. Check, check. One, two. There we go.

Are we good to go? Any stragglers? Ben Greenfield, I. I'm very pleased to introduce him. Ben is a world renowned health expert, biohacker and New York Times best selling author specializing in human performance and longevity. Whether through his books, speaking one on ones, Ben's mission is simple. To help people become boundless. Living with energy, clarity and unstoppable drive.

That was pretty good. Yeah, it's.

Great.

See you guys later. See you later. Thank you all for coming out. I wish I could stick around tomorrow night to see y' all play. Believe it or not, my skinny ass never played football. At least not the level that you guys are at. But like Wayne mentioned, I spent a long time in the field of human performance. Not only is my master's degree in physiology and biomechanics from University of Idaho. But I have eaten, breathed and lived how to get the most out of the human machine. For the past 20 years, I always kind of put together something custom for everybody that I talk to. I wanted to really open you guys up to, to some of the latest and greatest research and shatter some myths when it comes to nutrition and supplementation. And also a world that I'm increasingly kind of involved with and associated with biohacking. I mean in the biohacking, like the idea of red light therapy and cryotherapy and pulse electromagnetic fields and all these newfangled devices to enhance recovery or enhance performance. We'll talk about those little bit. What we're going to cover are nutrition biohacks and supplements. New research came out six weeks ago by Jason Sommers who makes these soft shell hyperbaric chambers, but he also does hard shell ones and he showed a bunch of benefits as far as like the longevity and the cellular enhancement even from the soft shell ones that don't go as high. It feels a little weird when you first start doing it, your ears pop and you know, it's technically even the soft shell ones will push you down to the level as if you were like 23ft underwater. But then you have an oxygen mask on and that pressure shoves a lot of the oxygen into tissues. Again, like the research people ask me like, oh, what are the staple supplements? If you didn't know anybody about somebody that you take? Creatine is right up there. Fish oil is right up there. Vitamin D is right up there. If you're an athlete, beta alanine is definitely up there. So a lot of these things I'm talking to you about, these are just like no brainers because there's so much research behind them on their safety and their efficacy.

If you can give a summary of like from today, like right now, 24 hours ahead of game, what are some things that you would recommend just off the top? Like some top things.

24 hours to game time. Some of the top things would be make sure your glycogen levels are topped off, right? So this is the time to start making sure you got pre workout, post workout carbs. Do a really great carbohydrate feeding tonight. This would be the time to make sure that you are getting any type of inflammation out of your body. I know that because you guys are just learning about this and even your owner is probably just learning about some of this stuff. Some, you know, you guys might not have access like hyperbaric oxygen and red light. And maybe eventually these are the type of things that you could have.

Okay, so you sort of let the cat out of the bag. But I'm in the back of the room listening to this presentation. By the way, a gun head coach comes up to me and he says, dwayne, we really need some of those liquid ketos.

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then he said, and I really like one of those hyperbaric chambers. And then you, you let the cat out of the bag.

So there. There you go.

You are unbelievable. Great speaker. I. I can tell people from their engagement, it was just tremendous. So thank you very much. Now, now Lamar has a special, special something.

Is he worthy of this? Guys, what do you think? You got to get it. Awesome. Also, everybody in the room, you will get a copy of Ben's book. Keep in touch, you guys. If I can help with anything, I'll email you later on Natalie. All right, thank you. Hey, see you later, Wayne. Thank you so much, you guys. Loved it. Great. Next stop is gotta go home and host 60 people for barbecue. Transition from speaking mode into burger flipping mode. Cool. Thanks, man.

Appreciate it.

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