476: Erica Lugo on Dating, Dealing with Burnout, Achieving Fitness & Health Success, Building a Fitness Business & MORE
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2017
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin interview Erica Lugo (@ericafitlove, www.ericafitlove.com) for the second time. The first time they interviewed Erica via telephone and talked with her about losing 150 pounds, becoming a finalist in the Women's Health Next Fitness Star and what drove her to transform her life. This time Erica came into the Mind Pump Media studios and talked about her successes and struggles over the past year as an entrepreneur and fitness role model. Get our newest program, Kettlebells 4 Aesthetics (KB4A), which provides full expert workout programming to sculpt and shape your body using kettlebells. Only $7 at www.mindpumpmedia.com! Get MAPS Prime, MAPS Anywhere, MAPS Anabolic, MAPS Performance, MAPS Aesthetic, the Butt Builder Blueprint, the Sexy Athlete Mod AND KB4A (The MAPS Super Bundle) packaged together at a substantial DISCOUNT at www.mindpumpmedia.com. Make EVERY workout better with MAPS Prime, the only pre-workout you need… it is now available at mindpumpmedia.com Have Sal, Adam & Justin personally train you via video instruction on our YouTube channel, Mind Pump TV. Be sure to Subscribe for updates. Get your Kimera Koffee, Mind Pump's first official sponsor, at www.kimerakoffee.com, code "mindpump" for 10% off! Add to the incredible brain enhancing effect of Kimera Koffee with www.brain.fm/mindpump 10 Free sessions! Music for the brain for incredible focus, sleep and naps! Please subscribe, rate and review this show! Each week our favorite reviewers are announced on the show and sent Mind Pump T-shirts!
- Intro to conversation with Erica Lugo (3:07)
- Dating talk with Erica (10:34)
- Erica talks about opening a brick and mortar/Challenges she has faced so far (14:04)
- Dealing with burnout and she talks about her recent autoimmune diagnosis (21:48)
- State of fitness industry / Impact of social media (34:10)
- What does she feel is her next step? / Dealing with emotions/attachments with clients (1:01:47)
- What does she feel she is kicking ass at? / Her Achilles heel (1:09:34)
- Entrepreneur advice from the Mind Pump guys about her business (1:13:09)
- Has she had encounters with clients about slowing down? / Changed since her diagnosis? (1:25:01)
- Differences between Men/Women in fitness (1:27:25)
- Final thoughts/message from Erica and the guys (1:31:35)
Related Links:
- Instagram - @ericafitlove
- Erica’s website
- Addison’s disease
- HeadSpace
- Mind Pump Ep. 472 – Tom Bilyeu
- Mind Pump TV
People Mentioned:
- Tom Bilyeu
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, we have a ton of people that have been coming to us that have been asking about what's going on with our bundles programs |
| 0:04.0 | Which one's best for me? That's the beauty of what we just did. |
| 0:06.0 | Sal spent all this time the other day getting on the green screen going in detail. |
| 0:10.7 | Preaching to you about these programs. |
| 0:12.0 | What is Maps green? What is Maps black? What is Maps red? Is it right for you? |
| 0:16.1 | Get on there. Go to the website, mindpumpmedia.com. |
| 0:18.7 | You guys can watch the video so you can explain in detail each program. |
| 0:21.9 | We got huge promotions going on right now. Mindpumpmedia.com. |
| 0:25.9 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, |
| 0:29.4 | there's only one place to go. |
| 0:31.4 | Mindpumpmedia.com. |
| 0:33.4 | With your hosts, Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:38.4 | We just had a great, great interview. It was our second time having Eric on the show. |
| 0:42.4 | Eric is... |
| 0:44.4 | Did him over it. If any year. We love Eric. |
| 0:46.4 | We love her. Let's be honest. |
| 0:47.4 | She's such a... We asked it to put a great message. |
| 0:50.4 | We put her shirts on. That's the first time we've done that. |
| 0:53.4 | We didn't do that for anybody else. |
| 0:55.4 | No. She better... I will rock that shirt. |
| 0:57.5 | I will get it, girl. |
| 0:59.5 | Exactly. Just so you know. |
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