Brock Armstrong: How To Weigh Less, Recover More, Have An Exit Strategy For Fitness And Life Goals, And The Purpose Of Life Itself

I welcome my old friend, and longtime audio mentor Brock Armstrong, host of the Get Fit Guy podcast and co-creator of an innovative weight loss coaching course at weighless.life. Brock, the pride of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, has had a wild ride through life as a former professional ballet dancer turned heavy smoking band roadie, turned extreme endurance athlete, and recently has modified his approach to fitness to emphasize general fitness, functionality, and longevity.

Brock is an enlightened dude who reports walking over to the gym for a planned session of heavy lifting, and then following an urge to bail on the gym and instead taking a 7-kilometer walk. Ever do anything similar? Why or why not? This podcast will get you pondering the deeper questions of life, health, fitness, and getting over yourself en route to ambitious peak performance goals.

Ah, the beauty of podcasts where you get real insights and authentic conversation that extend far off the pages of a book or a magazine article. We attempt to steer the discussion to the interests of endurance athletes at times, for the show was syndicated for the Primal Blueprint endurance podcast. But hang on for a wild ride, because we take you where health and fitness podcasts have never gone before with no punches pulled. We ask you to ponder the elephant in the room question: Should you keep pursuing your competitive athletic goals? What about your career? Do you have an exit strategy? Are your identity and self-esteem intertwined with what you do?

We get super deep talking about thoughts and energy fields influencing cellular function, how an intuitive approach to training trumps biohacking and biotechnology (or at least enhances the effectiveness of tech tracking), how fat loss is best achieved through mindset instead of calorie burning and calorie counting, and how to make recovery the central element of your fitness pursuits, and how an energizing morning routine (check on my morning routine video on YouTube and you can also see my step-by-step breakdown of cold therapy here) will help you build focus and discipline in all areas of life, and much more. Enjoy listening to wild times with my man Brock!

TIMESTAMPS:

Brock discusses his professional ballet career and why ballet can be considered an endurance sport [7:45].

The importance of having an exit strategy for anything in life [15:00].

Brad shares a story about the origins of the ancient Olympics [20:50].

Athletes are finding that sleep is almost half of their training [25:55].

The knowledge you gain through tracking biometrics is beneficial and empowering [28:30].

Sometimes (healthy) vanity can be a good measurement of fitness [41:00].

The importance of getting over yourself and going with the flow (whether you’re an athlete or not) [45:00].

The purpose of Brock’s Weighless program being a 1 year-long commitment [52:00].

Why Brad started fasting in the mornings again [55:45].

“Active couch potato syndrome” and what the endurance community needs to watch out for [1:01:30].

Should you really load up on calories post-workout? [1:10:45].

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