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Charles Poliquin

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  1. “Yes Yourself, you had the epitome of self testing, right? So, I mean, that's one of your keys to success. You're willing to be the lab rat for all of us, right? So the advantage with me is I've had a lot of lab rats who want to go to the Olympics and I tried different things. But, you know, one of the critiques I often get is you're not scientific or you don't like science. Well, Here's my answer to these detractors. Clinical experience outbeats Research studies. I'll give you an example. In February 2008 in the Journal of Applied Strength and Conditioning, there was a paper cluster training, a novel approach to strength training or the development of relative strength.”

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  2. “The most common comment is now the progress I achieve with my students or my clients is much faster. And, you know, for years, I remember when I had my facility in Phoenix, I would have, let's say, 10 hockey players training at the same time. And the guys would look at each other's program, and they thought maybe I had some favorites. Everybody had their best program for them. I think that's one of the keys to success. I mean, there's a lot of ways to get there, but you got to find what's the best way for you. I mean, if you go ahead.”

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  3. “Be Johnny Dopamine, but you lack gaba, so your biggest limiting factor is you can't have what we call centered calmness, which is what the GABA is a neutransmitter for. Or it could be dopamine dominant, like Uber dopamine boy. But what happens is that you have those They say know yourself, yeah, that's the first thing you should do. So when I teach the class, I make all my students do the test. And then for three days, I explain. To individualize depending on what physical quality you want. So let's say if you want to get big and you don't dependent, that's how you should do it. And then I give the in-betweens and then...”

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  4. “has won the cone of the Nobel Prize for Functional Medicine, she is a big advocate of the Braverman test, which you could download for free. You just Google Eric Braverman, the Braverman test. And it's a multiple question answer type of format. And I thought she found, and so did Bill Belleka, who's another neuronsmitter expert, she found it to be actually the most accurate test, but you can only do it once in your life. Because if you redo the questionnaire, you know the questions and then there'll be an internal bias to the answer. But if you answer truthfully, and then what you find is that this true complete dominance is rather rare, but you will find that you say more firewood or what I call dopamine acetylcholine dependent. So you need both. And there's always a limiting factor when you do the test. So you could have”

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  5. “Actually, I mean, there's been a lot of efforts clinically to do, let's say, saliva work or urine work. And even the labs who've done the research, it's kind of... Useless. So if you look at Catherine Wilner,”

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  6. “When I answer a question, you know, if you ask me a question, what's the best way to screw a screw? I'll say a screwdriver and I'll say, why didn't you say a saw? Well, I don't have time to explain to you that a screwdriver is the best tool. So I've been considered rigid in my approach, but I'm not. I've done a lot of trial and error. But if you're going to ask me for a solution, I'll tell you the quickest way to get there. I don't have time to educate everybody, you know. So”

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  7. “She's really hard to predict what she does. And then you have acetylcholine dominant one where she's, she has a style that confuses people. And then I have a hearth type wrestler's number one in the world right now. And she's very patient when she fights and she'll lock you and then she waits. She waits. She waits and she tires you out. And she's not dominant in any neurotransmitters, which would make her earth type. So now people When I start to talk about the elements, people say, oh, he's a granola head, bullshit or blah, blah, blah. And then now my most popular course is actually advanced program design. And if you look at the reviews on my website, people say, that's the fastest way to individualize the training process. I'm really big on individualization. I think that people want to cookie cutter approach and they don't like the fact that”

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  8. “They never miss a live, you know. And that method works for them. And in bodybuilding, you've seen that. You've seen in every sport. Even look at wrestling, of course, three girls on a national team. And one is dopamine dominant. And she's like a mongoose on PCP when she fights.”

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  9. “But if you look at the way they get you to have a big squat, it's diametrically opposed. But the key is not to say, well, one is better than the other. What the key is what is best for you? And I studied the Chinese medicine approach. What I figured out is that it's actually a neurotransmitter dominance, if you want to explain it into the modern world. So some athletes make a lot of dopamine. They need a lot of variation in workouts. They need to go balls to walls every workout, but they need variation. If they don't have variation every workout, they don't make progress. While some people are what I call earth type, which I don't have any dominance, and then they... They're more like Thomas the Tank Engine. It's slow progress. All the training methods is based on patience.”

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  10. “Okay, so in Chinese medicine, they believe there's five elements that regulate health, fire, water, earth, metal and water. So the point is that in Chinese medicine, they'll describe a condition as, let's say, excessive fire or not enough fire or fire deficiency or water excess. And this was very poetic, but now science has backed up what it means. So in Chinese medicine, for example, osteoporosis and adrian fatigue are the same thing. While in Western medicine it's not. So years ago, I had observed that the training of athletes has to be individualized. So for example, you know, when you talk, let's say about squat, two of my favorite people on Earth are Ed Cohn and John Brose, and they know how to get a big”

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  11. “There are some compounding pharmacists that will make you a gotcha bioabsorbable crane. That works a lot faster, I would say. If you could find the compounding pharmacists that will do that, and it's a biologically active form, you could get the same results in about two to three months. In Canada in the early 80s, you could actually buy this as a prescription. But it wasn't popular. That's what Mauro used to recommend. And then when the cream fell out of the marketplace, the best alternative was to use the oral.”

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  12. “So you went to this gym, and after a year and a half, he was down to 200 pounds. So he had lost 280 pounds. But, I mean, there's enough loose skin to bury five cadavers inside of them. So I told my friend, just give him that. And a year later, I met that guy. He was so thankful for that trick. He goes, he finally got rid of the loose skin. So Gotchikola is the herb you want to use for that.”

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  13. “For the loose skin for six months. So people say it's not worth it. But I tell people just keep doing it for six months. And then it's almost like overnight. This seems to be a saturation point where then the body gets the message to sell signaling. And then in a matter of days, I've had, for example, people who look like they have 15% body fat and they're actually 6% body fat when you measure them on a Dexos scan. And then when they do this supplement for an extended period of time, This is not an exaggeration. Everybody who's tried it said, yeah, it's exactly what it is. I mean, I had one of my best students, it was a former pro bodybuilder. He had a client come in and he weighed 480 pounds. And he decided to lose weight because select his clothes the night before and he realized his pants covered the whole bed.”

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  14. “I mean, if you're the type of guy that's lost so much weight that you can actually windsurf with your scrotum, then here's the solution. There's an herb called Gotchukola. And that herb will, and I learned this from Mauro di Pasquale, who's one of my early mentors, will get rid of what we call unnecessary scar tissue or unnecessary connective tissue. The truth of the matter, though, is that you will see zero progress.”

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  15. “Basically When I go to Montreal, I know where to buy it. And it's a place where my sister lives in Gatneau, where they have it in stock year-round. But it is the best meat. If you ever come and see me or in Montreal area, I'll take you to that meat.”

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  16. “Yeah, and also, because all the animals I pick tend to have high omega-3 fat in them because of what they eat. I mean, the best meat to eat in the world is YPT, which is a type of deer that lives in northeastern Canada, and he can only shoot it from an helicopter because there's no roads where the YPT lives. And that meat is chased by wolves all day. Besides the fact that it eats grass-taught in the animal itself, which is really high in omega-3, the animal is chased multiple times a day by wolf packs. Makes the animal make glycogen, which makes them eat fatty and sweet at the same time. It's almost like a fudge in the meat. But the problem is you're not allowed to import it into the US. So I only make it when I go see my folks in Canada.”

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  17. “I think the key to making good chili is actually blending the meats. For example, ostrich is a really high iron content, but you might as well chew on a illiko barbell plate when you eat ostrich, right? And then I use something with a higher fat content like the yak. And then that kind of offsets it. And I used to use elk, but elk for a lot of people tends to be too gamey, right? But when you blend with buffalo, it kind of equals it out. NF played with ratios over the years, but I think I got the recipe down pat. But the secret is the yak. I think the yak makes a huge difference on the palettability of the meal.”

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  18. “I like to cook. I think that's a great way to be creative. And I guess being creative is one of my biggest assets. And I love to take a recipe and then improve it. So I'm not one to stick to rules so much.”

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  19. “And I'm really well known to teach people have to have confidence. That's what they say. I'm a world class. So, for example, I had a friend of mine. She's a single mother. Her kid's dad was absent. So she left him with me for the day. And when she came back, they kidney how to swim and they knew how to ride a bicycle without training wheels. And she goes, she did that the whole day. I said, well, teaching how to swim without fear takes five minutes. She goes, are you serious? And then I told him how I teach it. And she goes, wow, that's very simple. So I guess I'm world class at solving problems. And people love my cooking. Anybody that's been to my house, but I cook man food. For example, I make it chili with yak buffalo and elk and ostrich. And people have six, seven servings. They feel like cage.”

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  20. “Probably people say that I'm the best friend to have the worst enemy to have. So they'll say that I'll jump in front of a bullet for them. But before I jump in front of a bullet, I'd rather kill a guy myself. But people say that the compliment I appreciate the most is when people say to me, I wish I had a father like you. So when they see me interact with my daughter and the way she behaves and the way she learns, they said”

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  21. “So my father came back from Paris and he told my mom, yeah, he was pretending he knows how to read. My mom said, no, he knows how to read. She goes, that's impossible. He has a good memory. His brother is read to him, and he just recites a parakeet. And she goes, no. He goes, I have the ultimate test. So the French edition always came out six months before the Canadian edition. And since my father knew that all his boys like asterisks, he would always buy the latest asterisks. So you pull it out. He says, read this. And I read it. And he was astonished I could read it. And my mom says, I told you he taught himself how to read. So apparently my oldest brother did the same thing. So I just wanted to learn. I was bored to death. So I would pick up reading.”

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  22. “My father spoke 14 languages, so I guess he did. I have a great memory. I think Biscuit taught myself how to read. My parents realized I knew how to read before I went to school. So the way I figured it out is that You know, we had a lot of, I was the fifth out of eight boys. So there was a lot of books around, a lot of comic books in French, and there would be like these word illustrated dictionary books. So let's say I saw a fire truck in French Ca ⁇ on Pompeii and I said, okay, the code for fire truck is this. And then after that, I start to read the comic strip called Asterisk.”

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  23. “Save my money up, and I went to Jimmy to meet Rolf Faser, who I took the German volume training from, and I would see all the experts. And I went to Finland to meet Pavel Komey, and I beat Marshmidt Bleicher. was the best at the time, I went to learn from them. That's how I started actually.”

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  24. “In French, that was about strength training. So then I say, okay, I've got to learn English. And distinctly, Remember having to look up what bicep peak meant. Like I said, I would use the English dictionary. Bicep peak, and I remember peak as a peak of a mountain. I go, then, okay, it's a figure of style, blah, blah, blah. And so I learned. Everything in English Read it quickly because I have passion. I realized that all the best stuff was in German, so I decided to learn German. And that's how I started I always, always wanted to be ahead of the game. So I always figured out who's the best teachers and then learn from them. And I Was 21”

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  25. “It was very hot. And then one day she didn't show up, so the next day on Monday, I said, hey, Lucy, you weren't at church yesterday. She goes, no, I'm 14 now. My parents said, you can decide whether you go or not. So I said if it's good enough for her, it's good enough for me. So what happened is I... Was a University Librarian University of Ottawa, was right beside the church. So I said, instead of wasting my time listening to what I thought was bullshit, I'm going to go to the University Library. And I was on the magazine section to periodicals, and I saw a French A periodical from Belgium called Kinesiology, and they talked about arthritis and the knee. And so I read it. It was in French, so I could understand I didn't speak English at the time, so then. It didn't take a long time to go through everything.”

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  26. “Not at all, it's French. I didn't speak English actually until I was 17. And then I actually learned English because I wanted to be really good at strength training. So the story behind that is that as a kid, I remember looking at Tarzan Comics or watching Captain America cartoons. And I always wanted a big physique. I thought that was like the ultimate hero. But what happened is that when I was about 14. I'm a recarving Catholic, so I have to go to Catholic church every Sunday. And to be frank, I hated it. And I only went there to perve on this girl called Lucy Lemieux.”

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