149. How Blake Cotton Dropped 35 lbs Through Home Workouts During Lockdown
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Are you one of those people who gained a lot of weight as a result of the COVID-19 lockdowns?
This episode may make you realize how critical it is to be physically fit during these times.
Losing weight and becoming physically fit may seem a bit insane during this time when fear is running rampant due to the possible pandemic.
But you should know that having a healthy body is one of the best ways to safeguard your immune system, an important part of staying healthy during even the most dangerous of epidemics.
Depending on how severe the outbreak is and how long it lasts, you may be tempted to skip working out or taking care of your diet. This is natural. You should know that cleaning and maintaining your body will improve your immune system, thus helping you stay safe during any pandemic outbreak when panic would make everyone less than aware of his or her own health needs.
Eating healthy and getting enough physical activity can help you lose weight. However, getting started can be difficult, especially if you have little time or money to spend.
Blake Cotton, a professional in IT, was one of those who experienced difficulty losing weight during lockdown. He had been into yo-yo dieting, crash dieting, and rebound dieting.
However, there was a time when he realized that it was better to break this vicious cycle and focus on building muscles and getting back on his feet again.
Of course, it is not easy, but by staying consistent with his home workouts, it helped him a lot to achieve his fitness goals.
Today, he's proud to say that he dropped 35 pounds through home training workouts and managed to break that vicious cycle!
This is the era of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and high blood pressure. If you are reading this, then you must want to save yourself from these dreadful diseases.
Check out this episode with Blake Cotton as he shares his amazing journey of how he kept back on track and managed to break the barriers during the pandemic to be free from serious diseases and enjoy a good lifestyle while being an inspiration to others.
Connect with Blake on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kagedoholic_cotton/
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Chris Gethyn and I've been voted the world's number one trainer on platforms such as |
| 0:07.6 | bodybuilding.com, the governing body PT Academy. I am the co-founder of caged supplements. I am the co-founder |
| 0:16.6 | of the Chris Gethin Jim's franchise and I'm the co-founder on my online coaching platform. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm also a hybrid athlete, a pro natural bodybuilder, competed in many different events, |
| 0:29.9 | such as Iron Man Triathlon, Ultramarathon, and what I aim to bring to you with this podcast is inspiration, motivation from clients, |
| 0:40.1 | testimonials, biohacking, anti-aging, everything that will allow you to evolve as a human being. |
| 0:49.7 | Hello, everybody. This is the Chris Gethin podcast, and we've got another client spotlight here for you, which of course, there is somebody that everybody can relate to. A lot of people go, Chris, but you work out for a living. It's easier for you. Hey, it's not easy for me, but it's even more difficult for a lot of people out there. A lot of people |
| 1:13.5 | are facing adversity, but they don't use this as an excuse or if they had used it as an excuse, |
| 1:19.4 | now they've transitioned and they've used those excuses and turned those weaknesses |
| 1:24.1 | into now their weapons. And one person who has done that is on the other line. |
| 1:29.7 | And that is Blake Cotton. How are you, brother? Thank you. And welcome to the show. |
| 1:34.9 | Thanks, Chris. It's good to be here. New well. |
| 1:37.8 | So you're doing good. Over there in Denver, brother. So born and bread in Denver, correct? |
| 1:43.2 | Yes, sir. Okay. And what's your backstory? You know, |
| 1:46.3 | had you always been into fitness, had you played sports growing up? And, you know, what was the |
| 1:51.3 | transition that made you as a follow-up question go, you know what? I think one-on-one training may be |
| 1:58.2 | for me. Well, it all kind of, I started lifting a little bit in high school, |
| 2:01.8 | played a little sports here and there, but I wasn't really into the whole like bodybuild lifestyle |
| 2:06.4 | or lifting weights and wanting to lose weight and whatnot. I was just kind of dabbling here and there. |
| 2:11.5 | And it really wasn't until like about 2010. I started to get more into it. And I dabbled between, like, losing weight. |
| 2:21.2 | I would cut too much fat off or, like, not healthy. |
| 2:24.2 | Like, my diet was all over. |
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