310: Eat, Train, & Think Like an Elite Athlete Ft Alex Feinberg
Get Leaner & Live Longer
Nate Palmer
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Are you ready to unlock a leaner physique while still enjoying your favorite foods like pizza and tacos? What if I told you that less effort could lead to better fitness results?
In this episode, I chat with Alex, who shares his path from professional baseball player to hedge fund analyst and entrepreneur. He reveals how he maintains a lean physique year-round without counting calories or going hungry. Alex explains that food serves as a love language, not just fuel, and how he makes minor adjustments to popular foods like burgers and fried chicken to make them protein-dominant. We discuss why pursuing strength and speed is more effective than high-volume workouts, which leads to a quicker metabolism. Alex also highlights the value of morning workouts for building confidence and managing stress, and he introduces his "Triple Seven Club" principle covering finances, fitness, and sleep. He shares how he improved his sleep by reducing stimulants and incorporating daily movement. This conversation is about unconventional methods that simplify success in health and life.
Key Takeaways
• We discuss how food is more than just fuel; it's a love language with cultural significance, and viewing it only as fuel often means missing these deeper societal underpinnings
• I learned that training for strength and speed is more effective than high volume workouts focused on difficulty, as this approach increases your resting metabolic rate and helps you achieve better physique gains
• Alex encourages getting addicted to getting 1% better each week in workouts. This consistent, small improvement compounds significantly over time, leading to excellent shape in one to two years.
• We talk about the "Triple Seven Club": a philosophy centered on having seven figures liquid, being able to run a seven-minute mile, and sleeping seven hours per night. Achieving these three things typically leads to a very good mood and significantly improved quality of life
Resources
Follow Alex Feinberg on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexfeinberg1/
Nate Palmer:
The founder of The Million Dollar Body and author of "The Million Dollar Body Method", Nate has been coaching for over 15 years and has worked personally with over 1,000 clients.
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Website: https://milliondollarbodylabs.com/
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Lean Energy Stack: https://milliondollarbodylabs.com/pages/lean
Instagram: @_milliondollarbody
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like the harder you push, the more stressed out and anxious you get, |
| 0:04.5 | even though you're doing everything right? |
| 0:06.3 | That's the trap so many high achievers fall into. |
| 0:09.0 | We grind, we hustle, we chase big goals, but instead of growth, we get burnout. |
| 0:13.4 | That's why today's episode is so important. |
| 0:15.2 | We're talking with Alex Feinberg. |
| 0:16.8 | He's a former pro baseball player turned hedge fund analyst who hit that wall himself. |
| 0:21.5 | Out of necessity, he built some counterintuitive mental, physical, and nutritional |
| 0:25.1 | models that helped him overcome stress, beat performance anxiety, and build a framework for |
| 0:29.8 | winning in every area of your life. |
| 0:32.2 | At the end of this conversation, you'll know why the conventional grind harder advice |
| 0:35.1 | fails, how to rewire your mindset for growth, and Alex's triple seven system, running a seven-minute mile, earning seven figures and sleeping for seven hours, helped him create a balanced path to peak performance. Welcome to get leaner and live longer with Nate Palmer, the show for busy people who want to maximize their energy, burn fat, and build a body that feels as good as it looks. I'm your host, Nate Palmer. I've going to coach since 2008, and I believe that looking great, feeling unstoppable does not require hours in the gym or giving up all the foods that you love. This show is where I share real strategies that help you get leaner, live longer, and unlock your million dollar body, one habit, one meal and one workout at a time. So if you're ready to cut through the noise, take control of your health, if you're like a high |
| 1:10.8 | performer again, let's do this. |
| 1:12.6 | Alex, what's up, brother? |
| 1:13.7 | Welcome to get leaner and live longer. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm so glad you're here. |
| 1:16.0 | This can be fun. |
| 1:16.8 | This is going to be awesome, Nate. So for anyone who's not necessarily familiar with you or your work, can you just give us a little bit of background? I know you went from head professional athlete to hedge fund analyst. |
| 1:11.3 | But yeah, kind of talk us through that journey a little bit. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.5 | So number one, first and foremost, I love eating. |
| 1:16.2 | I've always loved eating. professional athlete to hedge fund analyst. But yeah, kind of talk us through that journey a little bit. |
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