The Adversity Advantage is where life’s hardest struggles become your greatest strengths. Each week, host Doug Bopst — a former felon and addict who used fitness to save his life — brings you raw, powerful conversations with world-class experts and thought leaders.
From Andrew Huberman to Mel Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, Gabor Maté, Robert Greene, Rich Roll, Kevin O’Leary, and more - you’ll hear the untold stories of how they turned setbacks into comebacks.
You’ll also walk away with practical, everyday tools to help you: build resilience in the face of adversity, rewire your brain and body for growth, strengthen relationships and mental health, transform your health, recover from addiction and unlock the discipline to create the life you want.
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The Adversity Advantage is where life’s hardest struggles become your greatest strengths. Each week, host Doug Bopst — a former felon and addict who used fitness to save his life — brings you raw, powerful conversations with world-class experts and thought leaders.
From Andrew Huberman to Mel Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, Gabor Maté, Robert Greene, Rich Roll, Kevin O’Leary, and more - you’ll hear the untold stories of how they turned setbacks into comebacks.
You’ll also walk away with practical, everyday tools to help you: build resilience in the face of adversity, rewire your brain and body for growth, strengthen relationships and mental health, transform your health, recover from addiction and unlock the discipline to create the life you want.
The Ultimate Guide To Blood Flow Restriction Training (BFR) | Alex Birks
The Adversity Advantage with Doug Bopst
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2 weeks ago
The Ultimate Guide To Blood Flow Restriction Training (BFR) | Alex Birks
Alex Birks is a robotics engineer, sports enthusiast, and aspiring consumer wellness-technology industry leader. Alex founded Suji with the aspiration to be a leading technology provider of muscle health solutions. Suji is now adopted by more than one third of American sports teams and has just launched a consumer line of business.
Today on the show we discuss: why blood flow restriction (BFR) training has exploded in popularity, how targeted compression training builds muscle and strength without joint stress, why it’s a powerful tool for recovery, warm-up, and performance, how Suji is revolutionizing BFR by personalizing compression based on data to make it safer and more effective, how to integrate BFR into strength training and warmups, how Alex’s own comeback from a devastating injury inspired a mission to help millions move and train pain-free and much more.
Learn more about Suji:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trysuji/
Website: https://www.trysuji.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Trysuji
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The Adversity Advantage with Doug Bopst
The Adversity Advantage is where life’s hardest struggles become your greatest strengths. Each week, host Doug Bopst — a former felon and addict who used fitness to save his life — brings you raw, powerful conversations with world-class experts and thought leaders.
From Andrew Huberman to Mel Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, Gabor Maté, Robert Greene, Rich Roll, Kevin O’Leary, and more - you’ll hear the untold stories of how they turned setbacks into comebacks.
You’ll also walk away with practical, everyday tools to help you: build resilience in the face of adversity, rewire your brain and body for growth, strengthen relationships and mental health, transform your health, recover from addiction and unlock the discipline to create the life you want.
