#307 Building Strength : Lessons from Construction to MMA Training | Vincent Uzi, Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 201 minutes
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Vincent Iuzzolino joins us for the 307th episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk!
Vincent Iuzzolino grew up in a blue-collar family in Long Island, NY, and began lifting weights at the age of 12, quickly becoming obsessed with training. While he wrestled and played baseball in his youth, lifting and building strength took precedence, leading him to bulk up from 110 pounds in high school to 230 pounds by the age of 22. However, years of heavy lifting and PED use resulted in muscle tears, which shifted his focus to competitive fighting.
Vincent worked as a union electrician in NYC for 20 years, but at 39, he began training others on the side. This side hustle quickly became more lucrative than his construction job, leading him to pursue it full-time. Recognized for his deep knowledge, Vincent struggled to share it with a broader audience until he hired a social media editor. With the editor's help, a casual conversation was filmed, edited, and posted on Instagram, skyrocketing his follower count from a few thousand to over 100,000 in just five days. This success led to a new venture in online training, where Vincent continues to thrive.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so in the smallest end, I got gem pop guys who just like want to get back in shape. |
| 0:03.8 | Then another small end on the top end are those guys who are just going to the next. |
| 0:07.3 | I got the guys in the middle of road who are D1 football players, businesses, families, kids, got out of shape, only know the D1 gym room. |
| 0:15.7 | And they introduced them to something totally different, a program that designed, where you optimize body fat loss, |
| 0:21.4 | sculpt your body, utilizing bodybuilding movements, not fucking burpees and running on a treadmill. |
| 0:25.7 | Nobody loves that. |
| 0:27.0 | These guys want to live with their meatheads. |
| 0:29.1 | So I designed programs that are for meatheads to burn body fat. |
| 0:33.0 | So really like the hypertrophy and looking good and being strong as well, that's my lane. |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah. like the hypertrophy and looking good and being strong as well that's my lane sit down keep it real and cut the bullshit welcome to table talk all right guys we're back |
| 0:49.7 | with another episode of table talk today my guest is viny oozy now Now, here's the first question. How do you really say your full name? Vincent Uzzalino. If you want to really pronounce it correctly. Yeah. It's like pizza. That's not bad. Usalino. That's not bad. That's not bad at all. Well, it's always the I silent. So going through school, everybody, Isolino. I's alino. I'm like, eye silent, you zolino. But Uzi is just way better. So how I came up with that, right? You know, I'm not like a, I was like one of the first people who have an iPhone, social media, you know, my friend Sean was putting together my page. And we thought of a name real quick. He just popped off Vinie and it stuck like, well. |
| 1:29.3 | People are like, yo, you got a dope name. I'm like, I guess. Yeah, so it's just like that. Just like that, swear. Didn't like think about it. It was just one second option choice and that was it. That's how it came too. All right. way back way back you know how did the channel start or the |
| 1:45.8 | instagram start but even going back further than that because your background is in construction |
| 1:50.4 | yeah but you've been training since what you're eight i started working out literally i was always obsessed |
| 1:56.0 | with like i must have had this pre in my mind like wrestling figures wrestling little muscle figures these |
| 2:02.3 | mini wrestlers G.I. Joe's. I started actually lifting weights when I was probably like 12. |
| 2:07.9 | I wrestled in middle school. I always remember this, you know, and I always had like a natural |
| 2:11.8 | lean, Bruce Lee type of body. He's got good genetics. And I won. And I remember i popped off my singlet and i looked over at the |
| 2:19.9 | table with the girls judge and they were all smiling like because had abs in the chest and i like this |
| 2:23.9 | they started doing push-ups pull-ups body developed quick and my dad bought my first joeita set the home |
| 2:28.7 | set and i went on from then they used to get a pump go to a party you get a pump go hang out my |
| 2:33.0 | shirt going to finish it that's how it started yeah and then you i from down. I used to get a pump, go to a party, get a pump, go hang out my share. |
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