From Gladiators to Ultramarathons: The Ultimate Guide to Building Mental and Physical Strength - James Pieratt || MBPP Ep. 1128
Mark Bell's Power Project
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🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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In episode 1128 of Mark Bell’s Power Project Podcast, hosts Mark Bell, Nsima Inyang, and Andrew Zaragoza hang out with James Pieratt to dive deep into the art of building mental and physical strength. From the timeless training secrets of gladiators to the extreme endurance required for ultramarathons, this episode is packed with practical insights for anyone looking to improve their health, fitness, and mindset.
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| 0:00.0 | What have you tried or what have you learned, you know, from these historical contexts that you've applied to what you do in turn? |
| 0:05.7 | Oh, dude, like everything. |
| 0:07.2 | The gladiator training was a lot of your typical athletic lifts, like this gladiator deadlift. |
| 0:10.9 | Dude, I've had scoliosis my whole life. |
| 0:12.8 | This thing completely unlocked my back. |
| 0:14.6 | Gladiators in general were fascinating because when I reconstructed the training, I really kind of resembled like modern athlete training. |
| 0:20.2 | Like there were sprints, tons of pliometrics. Did any of these cultures talk about rest or recuperation or recovery? |
| 0:26.7 | Ancient sports nutritionists would talk about how we should eat mildly before you train, |
| 0:30.8 | and athletes should sleep extra. And I was like, like, that's bulletproof information. They also |
| 0:34.4 | used hot and cold therapy. They use mobility. But it's important to remember, we get our scientific institutions from the ancient Greeks. |
| 0:40.3 | Bad diets too. So it would have been right around 480 BC. |
| 0:43.3 | There was this guy who was actually a runner who went completely carnivore and won the Olympics. |
| 0:48.3 | And after that, the next Olympic games, everyone showed up. |
| 0:51.3 | Half the runners were carnivore. |
| 0:52.3 | And no one never done it before. It doesn't make it noticeably harder to run if you are a little heavier, or is the progression |
| 0:59.4 | of getting heavier, like, slow enough to where maybe doesn't matter a ton for you? |
| 1:04.5 | You get a bit of both. So you can definitely tell that you're heavier when you're running. |
| 1:09.2 | Also, if you're slow like me, makes less of a |
| 1:12.5 | like performance-based difference, but you can definitely, you're definitely heavier. |
| 1:16.5 | On the other hand, if you are like too light, like, you know, you don't want to be running around |
| 1:22.0 | like 6% body fat, especially doing like the wilderness ultras that I do, where it's like, okay, |
| 1:27.1 | I need enough body fat to get through camp's like, okay, I'm, I need |
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