Computer Controlled, Motorized Adaptive Resistance IS HERE + Not All Kava is Created Equal
with Mike Pullano - Cameron George
Mike Pullano is the Chief Product Officer at ARX, the world's leader in computer-controlled, motorized resistance technology. After an Achilles tendon injury sidelined his fitness routine, Mike found a passion for biomechanics and physiology. In his search for better fitness solutions, he discovered an early prototype of ARX. Blown away by the results, Mike joined the ARX team in 2014 to help develop Adaptive Resistance™ technology for its introduction to the market. Bringing an extensive background in product development, customer experience and marketing, Mike oversees the end-to-end product creation from design to delivery for ARX’s renowned offerings. Mike currently lives in Austin, Texas where he spends 11 minutes and 46 seconds exercising per week and using the rest of his time exploring the world of human performance, golfing, hunting and playing music. VISIT ARX today.
PLUS Many of us have tried Kava. Almost always in a capsule. I did, and I noticed nothing. Kava is an ancient plant medicine. Bit it must have worked for those who used it for thousand's of years. So what's the difference. Listen and learn. Go to http://shrnetwork.biz/trukava and use code SHR for 25% off.
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About the Guest:
Mike Pullano is the Chief Product Officer at ARX | adaptive resistance exercise
Show Notes:
Computer Controlled, Motorized Adaptive Resistance IS HERE
[00:04:41] Mike Pullano shares a personal story that brought him to inventing the ARX machine.
[00:07:19] A discussion ensues on how “time under tension” should be defined and applied.
[00:12:36] How was the ARX machine developed?
- You need a resistance that changes according to what our bodies are capable of.
- Arthur Jones experimented with this, but the technology was crude and computer systems did not really exist back then.
- In 2010, we started actively developing prototypes of ARX.
- It was only then that we had the ability to put the right type of mechanical system mode and the right type of computer system together and get data feedback
- We have innovated on that for the last 10 years.
[00:15:05] How did you produce the formulary for intensity?
- Mike Pullano shares an interesting analogy
[00:16:28] Carl shares his personal experience and adaptations with the ARX machine. And Mike replies with the most amazing statistics they have on Carl’s workouts and what he could learn from these stats – do not miss it!
[00:34:23] Why the ARX machine is revolutionary for Personal Trainers
- You do not have to train your customers so frequently.
- You do not have to train your customer as long, 13 minutes.
- They actually see results.
[00:35:55] Mike elaborates on the incredible advantages the ARX machine has for various businesses like Chiropractors, Physical Therapists, Rehab Centers, Longevity Institutes etc.
- It delivers quantified results.
- It differentiates your business from any other health and fitness expert.
- You as a business owner who has ARX, are immediately separating yourself from everybody else.
- You can prove that your type of training with the ARX machine is improving at 30%, 40%, whatever the case is over the course of a few months.
- The machine understands progressive overload and can modulate intensity from day to day.
- No injuries! Which means that you can broaden your clientele to a wider population range.
- Many of the older generation people can also safely use the ARX machine with amazing results.
[00:51:12] Both Carl and Mike elaborate on how the ARX machine assists with building functional strength and how the ARX Company’s aim is to build resilient individuals regardless of age. Another MUST LISTEN.
[00:56:59] If you are a person who has accumulated a certain amount of wealth and you want to treat yourself on something that will repay you for the rest of your life, get an ARX machine for your home gym. If you want to distinguish your business from those of other Health and Fitness Specialists, get an ARX machine. If you are a personal trainer, this is a business in a box. (See link below)
[01:01:04] Nothing can challenge your body as quickly and safely as an ARX machine. Go back and listen to the interview we had with Lance Dalik: The following results was found when comparing ARX training with a weight training group that was doing 70% of one rep max, all in a third of the amount of time:
- 2 times the fat loss
- 5 times body fat percentage improvements
- 2 times lean muscle improvements
- 5 times VO2 max improvements
About the Guest:
Cameron George is the co-founder of TRU KAVA, a company that is striving to set the industry standard for quality, safety, and education around kava within the mass market. Cameron has spent many years investigating every aspect of kava. He has collaborated with many of the most prominent experts in the world within the fields of kava research and historical kava use. The goal of this project is to provide the safest and most effective kava products on the market, as well as educate the public on the complex story surrounding kava, explain some of the myths, the massive variation of quality on the market, and the many amazing benefits that kava can offer to the modern world when it’s used correctly in its traditional form. He strives to advocate for the use of only lab tested, safe kava varieties. The initiative is to clearly educate on the differences between safe and questionable kava products demonstrated in the scientific literature and historical accounts.
Show Notes:
Not All Kava is Created Equal
[01:07:01] Carl shares his first and second experience with Kava (which was not great) but then he met Cameron George from TruKava who told him the following riveting story about Benzo addiction and GABA receptors and how he discovered the advantages of Kava
[01:02:15] The definition of Kava: Kava is the full constituent drink mixture of the water extraction of specifically the roots of the plant called Piper methysticum. In the South Pacific, it is a popular drink that is used in ceremonies for relaxation. It is a preparation, just like coffee is a preparation. The liquid is actually a preparation that enables the components and constituents of that root to do the things that we expect them to do.
[01:20:15] How do you make kava out of that particular plant root?
- There are two categories of kava products. There are, there is
- traditional kava, which is this water and pressure extracted full preparation,
- and then there are kava like extract products like capsules, liquids, tea bags etc. that use either chemical solvents or even ethanol or alcohol to liberate the kava lactone.
- With the latter process you lose most of the therapeutic effects because it takes away all of the supportive constituents that increase the bio availability and half-life mechanisms across multiple receptors.
- Those by definition are not kava. They are kava like extracts.
[01:08:45] Certain strains are wild strains that are not well consumed by humans. And then there is a category of strains, called mobile varieties, that have a certain chemical composition that we control every step of the process. They have a good chemical composition that is very well tolerated in humans.
[01:23:11] Traditionally Indigenous people, when they first started using it would actually chew it.
[01:23:53] We found that if you apply heat and if you apply enough pressure, you can duplicate the same potency and get the same chemo type of active constituents out of it as well. There are no solvents that are used because a solvent dissolves certain constituents and leaves others.
[01:25:41] The highest level of excitement in the ethno-pharmacological community with Kava, is managing metabolic diseases in cancers. There are compounds called flavokavains which are well tolerated by humans, but they can cause side effects and symptoms, if they are in really excessive amounts and in imbalance with kava lactones. But they function as natural chemotherapy agents.
[01:26:46] The historic way of preparing Kava actually has a compound in it that could vanquish senescent cells.
[01:27:00] Some remarkably interesting information on numerous studies proving the amazing advantages of Kava, including:
- The invaluable affect it has on mTOR and AMPK
- It is a broad spectrum, protective organism
- It has more of a direct, even acutely protective aspect to it from a neuroprotective standpoint because it hits on every neuron tissue protective pathway
- It shifts the body into ketosis
- Creates more dopamine in the brain
- It is not addictive
[01:33:28] Tune-in to find out more about specific dosages and products. (See link below for more product details)
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