Eugene Teo (@coacheugeneteo) aka The Muscle Mechanic is a bodybuilder, strength coach, and educator who’s passionate about improvement. Whether it’s in physical strength and performance, education, business growth and expansion, relationships and bonding, it doesn’t matter – he craves it (and you’ll soon learn why).
This relentless pursuit of improvement has led him to where he is now – a straight talking, non-bro science practitioner – ready to improve your innervation and intellect around building strength & therefore muscle.
Eugene has also completed another podcast with Coach Paul from bioDefined, definitely worth a listen for those wanting to go deeper into his thoughts on Hypertrophy & Innervation.
Apart from being an absolute beast, this guy is a genuinely intelligent & thoughtful person. His clear focus on improvement is the switch in mindset that society needs. Less fixed goals, more continual growth. I’m certain you’ll learn a lot from this conversation.
In this episode we talk about:
- The pursuit of happiness and improvement
- The wider health benefits of hypertrophy
- Muscle recovery
- Diet, supplementation and biomarkers
- Misinformation on health advice
Listen to the episode
SHOW NOTES:
- How Eugene came to be the muscle mechanic {05:13}
- The grey areas of science in fitness {08:03}
- On the pursuit of happiness and improvement {12:24}
- Applying and adapting what is useful (in learning about your body) {17:43}
- Indirect lessons learnt from parents {20:28}
- On empathy {24:18}
- The wider health benefits of hypertrophy (muscle growth) {31:20}
- Three factors for hypertrophy {38:00}
- Muscle recovery {48:45}
- Diet, supplementation and biomarkers {56:18}
- Misinformation on health advice {01:07:58}
- First person who comes to mind with the word “success” {01:17:30}
- Morning rituals {01:21:00}
- Best purchase(s) under $200 {01:23:33}
- Current go-to playlist {01:26:37}
- Something that is obvious to him, but not to others {01:27:46]
Links:
- Connect with Eugene: Website, Facebook, Instagram
- Intro Song – Birds Are Away
- Rational Wiki – Bro Science
- Tim Ferriss – Four Hour Work Week
- Bruce Lee
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Philotimo
- Muscle Hypertrophy
- Greasing the Groove
- Eugene Teo – Training for Innervation
- Eugene Teo – The 3 Laws of Hypertrophy
- LISS Cardio
- Intermittent Fasting
- Gluten & Coeliac Disease
- DEXA Scan
- Nature.com
- National Institutes of Health – Research & Training
- National Health & Medical Research Council – Australian Government
- Tony Robbins
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” Maya Angelou
- I Am Not Your Guru
- In Order To Live by Yeonmi Park