110: Down 100lbs!! (w/ Jon Mackey)
The Dumbbells
Headgum
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Stanger is still holding it down and he's joined this week by the awesome Jon Mackey (Big Grande, The Teachers Lounge) This is the second time in The Weight Room for Mackey and be delivers! He and Stanger do a quick recap on what they discussed on his first episode. Mackey has made an incredible fitness transformation and it's still going - he's currently down 100lbs! He tells Stanger how he shifted from doing DDP Yoga at home to training 4 days a week at the gym. Mackey learned how to lift from DIY videos on YouTube and he's got some great tips on how to get started. He and Stanger round out their discussion with Mackey's common sense approach to nutrition and they answer a listener question about how to put on muscle.
"Yeah Buddy!!!"
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:07.5 | This is the Dumbels of Personal Fitness podcast where we, Eugene Cordero and Ryan Stanger, |
| 0:14.1 | except it's just Ryan Stanger. |
| 0:16.3 | Once again, Eugene's off shooting a show. |
| 0:20.0 | I say it every week. It's been 58 weeks now. Maybe it's like |
| 0:25.5 | maybe Eugene doesn't exist and now I'm just slowly waking up to it. Maybe not. I don't know. |
| 0:31.7 | I wanted to say like maybe it's like a fight club thing, but I feel like that's a hacky thing to |
| 0:36.2 | reference. It often comes up. But anyway, Eugene's out still, still stanger here, but it's going to be a great show because I have a super fun guest, where Eugene Cordero and me when he's here answer questions on all things, health and fitness, but this is solely based on our own working experience and a little bit of bro science. So please keep in mind that we're not |
| 0:54.7 | and never claimed to be doctors. |
| 0:56.0 | We're just a couple of dumbbells who love ourselves and fitness and want to help you with yours. And the help can start right now. What's up, everybody? What's up, everybody? It's Ryan Stanger here. Marbles in my mouth. Again, I started last episode with marbles in my mouth, so that's okay. |
| 0:52.1 | People tune in for that. |
| 0:53.7 | They like to see Stanger stumble. mouth again. I started last episode with marbles in my mouth, so that's okay. People tune in for that. |
| 1:11.8 | They like to see stanger stumble. No, no training wheels on today. Usually I'll wear some kind of |
| 1:22.0 | mouth splint to make sure that I'm able to enunciate all my letters correctly, but I didn't. |
| 1:27.4 | I didn't do any vocal warmups. Um, I came in hot off the, uh, what freeway were we on? The five? There's a couple of them. For me anyway. Yeah. I came on a couple of freeways. A couple of freeways. Five, 10. Five 10. One 10. Yeah, I was on the 10. I was on the one ten, too. I was on the two for a second. |
| 1:45.4 | Two is pretty cool. |
| 1:46.1 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:42.5 | Seems made up. Yeah, it's fake. If that, most of you recognize our guest's voice, uh, that's our wonderful guest today. You know, I'm from Big Ronde, Teachers Lounge. Yes. John Mackey. repeat guests on the dumbbells. |
| 1:43.7 | Good to have you back, buddy. |
| 1:45.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 2:18.2 | Dear, dear friend of mine. We go back years now. It's weird. I think I stop realizing that time is going by because I just have, my life has been the same for eight years. Right. But then more than that, 10 years. Yeah. And then I like stop and think about it. |
| 2:15.3 | It's like, oh, wow, I have known you for close to 10 years. That's crazy. Yeah. I don't know, like, it feels a lot. Oftentimes people tell me it feels longer with me. So I'm insufferable. I feel like I don't get enough time with you. Oh, great. Honestly, I'm like begging for more time. |
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