On today's episode, we have a special guest who for the last 20 years has been the go-to personal trainer for Hollywood's top TV, movie, and music stars.

He has his own TV show on Amazon Prime as well as his own Amazon business, and we will be discussing his top tips for how the work-at-home Amazon seller can stay in shape and he'll even let us know how we can join his Zoom workouts every day

for free. How cool is that? Pretty cool, I think.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the serious sellers podcast by Helium 10.

I am your host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show that's a completely BS-free, unscripted, and

unrehears, organic conversation about serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce

world.

And we've got somebody who does have an Amazon store,

but that's not why we have them on here. I'd like to welcome to the show, Eric the trainer. Eric, how's it going? It's going great, man. Thanks for having me on. I'm super happy to be on the show. So happy for you to be here. Now, you know, funny story, how we originally met years and years ago, I was in a American sumo amateur club. And one of my training partners, Dan, also known as Sumo Dan, I guess, you know, he was, he was friends with you. And then, you know, he would bring you out to some of the events. I'm like, who's that really buff guy that that Dan keeps bringing out. But, but that, oh my goodness, that's probably been like a good 7, 8, 9 plus years. Oh, yeah. Sumo Dan is the best.

Dan Kalpflesh, who is the U.S. heavyweight sumo champion, is such a character. It's almost like if John Belushi and Elvis Presley had a baby. That was mean, Sumo Dan. He kind of has this swagger. And he and I have been friends for years. I love that guy so much. He's the greatest. Cool, cool. Now, you know, fast forward, you're the, you know, one of the most known trainers for a lot of celebrities out there and you've got your gym up there. But I want to go back, way back. Now, you grew up in Maine, was it? Yes, I grew up on a farm in Maine, and we had animals. We had 250 acres of forest around us. We had pigs. We had sheep. We even had a donkey. Wow. Donkey. Okay, I had a goat and a pig here in California, but that's about my limit. I don't have them anymore. We didn't eat them. No, we just sold them to a petting zoo. But growing up there, I mean, did you already know you wanted to be in the fitness world or, you know, eight, nine, ten years old? What was your aspirations at that time? Well, this is what happened. You know, I was a very small kid. I grew up. I was one of the shortest kids in my class. I was very, very slight. And so I had to use other methods besides

physicality to win over friends. So I told a lot of jokes and I was kind of the class clown.

And I'll tell you, I was living in Maine. It's very cold up there. It's very rural. It's kind of

in the middle of nowhere. And I said to my parents when I was about 12 or 13 years old I said

why do we live up here I mean there's there's no theaters there's only one movie theater in the

whole town there are no plays there are no concerts like all of the culture that you love and that

I love it's not up there and they looked at me and they said when you're older, if you want to live in a place like a big city with a lot going on, if you want to live in a warm place where they have palm trees and you can wear your bathing suit year-round, go ahead, but we like it here. So sure enough, as soon as I got the chance, I moved out to Los Angeles, and it's very different than the farm in Maine. I can imagine it's different. Now, did you go to college out here? Did you, as soon as you got out of high school, you started working, or what did you do? No, no, I got out of high school. I went to college in Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut, and after college, I graduated and went to New york and my my goal my dream after college

was just to move to new york city learn how to play guitar and have some fun

but when i moved to new york i didn't realize how expensive it was it's it's

pricey to live in manhattan so i had to get a job

well i was offered a job in a law firm i was offered a job in a law firm. I was offered a job in a

publishing house. I was even offered a job in a young executive program at retail. I didn't want to

do any of those things. I was so tired of college and doing work. So I went to the gym, the local gym in

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