Have you ever wondered why work actually extracts from your health?
I mean, think about it, most people at work,
work because of stress, work because of sitting down for hours
at a time actually makes you unhealthier. It makes you sicker.
It makes you age faster. But what if you could flip this around?
What if work can actually make you younger, fitter, healthier?
What if going to an office can actually extend your lifespan?
So these are things which I'm obsessed with right now. And these are ideas that
I'm bringing to Mindvalley. Take a look at this picture.
These are people from Mindvalley who just ran a Spartan Race in a freacking typhoon
in the Philippines. And you know what? This Sunday, another 20 of us are
going to go for training for the next Spartan Race. Our people are getting
so fit, getting so much younger biologically, getting so much healthier
and stronger that now, they need to do something with all of that
energy and health, they're taking part in freacking Spartan Races.
Check out that guy in the middle of that picture. His name is Jason Campbell.
He's from Canada. Let me tell you his story.
So I knew when I stepped on a scale and it read 200 pounds,
I wanted to do something about it. But here I am, a Canadian who loves
eating cheese, I love poutine, and I know that the average American,
once you pass 30, you actually start gaining a pound every year,
and I just hit my 30 years old. This is not the trend that I want
to continue. I want to do something about it, but I don't want to spend hours
in the gym. And I was very lucky, the fact that I'm part of Mindvalley and
they developed this protocol called 10X, and then within no time,
I find myself spending less than 15 minutes in the gym, once a week,
and I'm able to completely transform my body. Just by eating better,
keeping that routine, and not taking all of that time,
and I don't even crave the old things. And thank god I'm part of this environment
that supports me making those decisions. And today, I'm more ripped than I've
ever been, even before when I was 20, and I'm 30 years old.
I'm going to keep this way. This is fantastic.
So what are the strategies that we are using on our people?
Well, I want to show it to you. Follow me. So this, this it the gym that we just
installed in Mindvalley. Now, you don't need a gym in your office,
but this one helps us accelerate our training better. And this is Ronan.
Ronan is in charge of the Health Division here in Mindvalley, helps us develop our
health programs and also runs Mindvalley's Human Advancement Lab which basically does
scientific tests on our people to see how we can engineer the best health and
wellness growth. So Ronan, you're pretty ripped,
and a lot of people here at Mindvalley are getting pretty ripped.
But what mystifies most people is how much time they spend in the gym.
How much time do you need in a gym, according to science,
to really accelerate your muscle development?
Not even an hour, half-an-hour per week is enough.
Half an hour per week. Okay, pay attention to that.
We're not talking any other form of exercise other than half-an-hour per week,
in a gym, doing a specific set of exercises, five exercises specifically.
Now, this is studied is by science. In fact, what science says is that if you
go to gym more than once a week doing these exercises, you actually slow
down your muscle growth because of something called recovery time.
Ronan, tell us about these five exercises.
These are five exercises that use your entire body. You have horizontal and
vertical plains, push and pull movements. These exercise are chest press
for your chest, shoulder overhead press for the shoulders, mid row for the back,
lat pulldown for the back, and leg press for the legs.
Great. So I showed a picture on Instagram recently, right,
with my health transformation. Now part of that was WildFit.
WildFit made me lose all my excess fat and improve my skin and my energy and then
with that extra energy, I'm like, "I want to get fucking ripped."
And so I started going into the super slow strength protocols.
Now, these were popularised by a medical doctor by the name of Doug McGuff.
He wrote a whole book on them called Body by Science, so we decided to go deep
into some of the research coming up from that book and from universities
like McMaster University and to engineer exercise protocols that turn our people
here into the best they can be. We brought this at A-Fest,
we do this at Mindvalley U. We're about to finish over a hundred
human trials, and it'll probably take another six months, but I want to share
with you the five exercises and what we are finding.
Let's do it.
So the best part about this is while being in between meetings,
so waiting for your coffee to brew, we can pop into the gym and start
working out, two minutes, and already see dramatic results
in our bodies. So I love this approach. And if you want to know more,
follow Mindvalley on Instagram, @mindvalley and I'll see you there.