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Ep. 194 - Getting Shredded…But Not Competing

Iron Culture

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The Addiction Quality of Obsessive Avoidance

Ben Penn: There's a difference between hiding from your aspects of your life through a pursuit and using it as a vehicle for processing and feeling things. And I think just like that's a double sided coin to going, you know what people don't understand this relatively weird thing I do with body building. The other side is I have a really messed up relationship with the sport. And I'm trying to normalize it so that I don't have to face that. So I've made a bunch of friends with other psychotic bodybuilders and I've cut other people out of my life who tried to tell me that they're concerned about me. Those are things I literally don't see any body

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