This Mindvalley trailer features Vishen Lakhiani interviewing Ben Greenfield about biohacking, distinguishing biological versus chronological age, and a balanced approach to fitness for longevity. Ben emphasizes five fitness parameters to reduce biological age and challenges common myths that advocate overtraining.
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To understand how to go into your later years gracefully, you have to understand that chronological age and biological age are two completely separate things. In fact, that is what Ben Greenfield has been obsessed with. Ben was voted one of America's top personal trainers. He's a profound biohacker. He has coached the world's top CEO, chefs and professional athletes from, get this, the ufc, the NHL, the NBA, and the NFL. He's one of the top ranked amateur triathletes in the world, completing over 120 races and 12 Ironman triathlons, winning gold medals for the USA. He has even completed the world's toughest challenge, Spartan Delta, and trained with the Navy seals.
I've spent the past two decades of my life immersed as a complete fitness geek, learning this stuff. My formal training is exercise physiology. My master's degree is in exercise physiology and biomechanics. This is my life. There are myths and big fat lies in the fitness industry that tell you to go beat up your body, work till you're sore, destroy yourself until you're blue in the face. And that's not what is necessary for longevity. And furthermore, it's not what's necessary. Just feel fricking good, you know, I realized after years of beating up my body with the wrong kind of fitness that my biological age was actually older than my chronological age. What I did was I identified the five specific parameters of fitness that you must engage in if you want that complete, balanced approach to fitness. And you also want to maintain your health, your beauty, and your longevity. We.
Which means you now have the body of your 20 year old self.
Exactly. And there's no reason everybody can't have that. And I want you to understand that.
Because that's the difference between fitness and going beyond fitness.
You know, we also like to sing in the shower for these hot, cold, contrast showers. Right? I got the magic in me. Magic, magic, magic.
