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The Jay Ferruggia Show

#255: The “Meathead Millionaire”, Mark Bell: Either You’re In or You’re In The Way

The Jay Ferruggia Show

Jay Ferruggia

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Mark Bell is one of the most recognizable and successful men in the fitness industry.

Known as the “meathead millionaire,” Mark has managed to parlay a successful powerlifting career into a multi-million dollar business empire.

He is the creator and U.S. patent holder of one of the highest-selling fitness inventions in history, the Slingshot, and a subsequent line of fitness apparel.

Mark is also the owner of “The Strongest Gym in the West,” Super Training Gym, a strength coach and fitness expert, host of the hit podcast “Mark Bell’s Power Cast,” and the owner of internationally distributed, Power Magazine.

Perhaps what’s most impressive about Mark is his ability to constantly evolve, improve and overcome new challenges. A former powerlifter and world record holder, Mark has now set his sights on dominating the bodybuilding stage the way he used to dominate the lifting platform.

Whether you’re looking for a spark of motivation and success tips to help you achieve your goals, or you just want to learn more about the man who built a fitness empire, you’ll find it all and more in this incredible episode!

  • How has Mark achieved such a high level of success in the fitness industry? [5:17]
  • Why he says the greatest thing he is going to lift is people not weights. [14:47]
  • Don’t overthink – why you should sometimes put the cart before the horse. [16:53]
  • It’s YOU vs. YOU – why part of knowing who you are is knowing who you are not. [20:25]
  • How did Mark turn the idea for the Slingshot into the multi-million dollar business it is today? [25:57]
  • The writing is on the wall (literally); either you’re in or you’re in the way! [34:17]
  • Why you should be the driver of what’s cool. The dangers of social media and the importance of transparency. [37:27]
  • Has Mark’s podcast had a significant impact on his business? [48:55]
  • From record setting powerlifter to competitive bodybuilder – how his training and recovery has changed to prepare for the stage. [52:13]
  • His take on the keto diet and how his nutrition has changed for his new endeavor. [1:02:11]
  • What does the future hold for Mark? [1:06:15]
  • His plea to feed your dog’s and kids REAL food! [1:10:07]

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up my friends? Psych to have you back on another episode of the Renegade

0:16.5

Radio Podcast chilling out with you today as you listen in on a conversation I had

0:21.1

recently with a friend of mine who I've known for 15

0:24.4

plus years yet never met in person. It's a weird thing right with the internet

0:28.8

and whatnot. I mean we have spoken on the phone we've talked through every form of digital communication you can imagine, but we never actually

0:37.1

met.

0:38.0

That guest I'm talking to is Mark Bell, a huge following in the fitness industry.

0:42.5

He's gone on to do great things.

0:43.9

I first spoke to Mark, either 2001,

0:47.3

two, three, four, somewhere in there,

0:49.2

where he was first starting his own gym

0:50.9

and going out in his own and Dave Tate connected Mark and I to just

0:54.8

discuss so I could help him out with some ideas on some stuff and give him some

0:57.8

feedback and man he took the ball and ran with it he has blown. Creator the Slingshot has a huge

1:03.8

podcast, Super Training Gym up in Sacramento, which I still haven't been to but I

1:08.4

know it's one of the greatest gyms out there anywhere. So it was really

1:11.6

cool to finally connect with Mark, finally meet him in person when he was here in town for 30 days, renting a house in Malibu.

1:17.0

Had a blast. I think you guys are going to love this episode. Now before we get rolling, I want to tell you a shocking fact about probiotics.

1:24.7

According to Naveen Jane, a billionaire and founder of Viole, the at home test that measures

1:30.0

gut bacteria, almost no probiotics show up in people's gut analysis.

1:35.2

That means 99% of probiotics out there don't colonize your gut as claimed.

1:39.7

Still research shows we need good bacteria to fight the bad guys.

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