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The WODcast Podcast

495 Grant Roberts is a former Mr. Canada bodybuilding champion

The WODcast Podcast

The Wodcast

Health & Fitness, Sprinting, Functional, Crossfit, Weightlifting, Fitness, Gymnastics, Crossfitgames

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Grant Roberts is a former Mr. Canada bodybuilding champion, and is a personal trainer, nutritionist, lifestyle coach, actor, author and philanthropist. Roberts was born in Toronto, Canada, and is also a citizen of Ireland. He currently resides in Canada and the United States. Roberts career gained international recognition for his work in transforming the physique of actress Hilary Swank in the Clint Eastwood film Million Dollar Baby (2004). Swank went on to win both the Golden Globe and Actress Academy award for Best Actress and paid tribute to Roberts on both occasions, acknowledging his contribution.

Roberts had a cameo appearance in the film Million Dollar Baby, as the corner-man for actress and real-life professional world champion Lucia Rijker who played the 140 champion ‘Billie the Blue Bear’ in the movie.

Roberts would team up again with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, playing Ruben Kruger, a flanker alongside co-star Matt Damon who portrayed team captain Francois Pinnear for the South Africa national team the Springboks that won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, in the 2009 film Invictus.

Roberts is actively involved in charitable work, founding www.healthystudentbodies.com an organization dedicated to educating, motivating and creating healthy invigorating lifestyle for all students of life regardless of age. Roberts’ foundation provides fitness equipment to schools and fitness programming including ‘Jog Your Memory’ a science based pre-educational primer that enhances oxygen and blood flow to the brain enhancing focus, retention and cognition with the additional benefit of aiding in controlling excess body fat.

Roberts is the chairman and director of Healthy and Fit Communities, a global initiative that provides web based tools and actively encourages comprehensive fitness strategies using Roberts’ ten www.UnifiedLifestyle.com principles as the foundation for improving appearance, strength, confidence and overall level of fitness regardless of age, gender of athletic ability.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Wadcast podcast. I'm your host Eddie, I don't know

0:07.3

what just happened there. That was a stutter. It was a kind of a burp. I don't know. Anyway,

0:14.2

this podcast is a podcast if you've never listened before about health and fitness and

0:19.8

strength and conditioning and CrossFit and comedy and I don't know, whatever I'm into

0:25.9

that week, going to be running or skiing or surfing and applying my fitness to those. I try

0:35.5

to have interesting interviews for you each and every week. This week, like no other,

0:42.8

our guest, Grant Roberts, who is a celebrity trainer. He trains celebrities. Many, many, very

0:53.6

famous ones, such as Hillary Swank, for a million dollar baby. He had Kamal Nanjami, who you might

1:02.0

know some Silicon Valley, who's a new Marvel superhero film. And if you look at them, the transformation

1:10.0

was pretty incredible. And that's what brought my attention to Grant. I was following him on

1:18.7

Instagram and I see they do some pretty cool stuff working with this client. And I thought a lot

1:24.9

of you out there are trainers. A lot of you are trying to do some of the things these actors are

1:30.6

doing to transform their bodies. And I thought this guy'd be a good guy to talk to and it turns out

1:35.8

he was his former bodybuilder, really, really knowledgeable trainer. Usually the guys that become,

1:42.6

you know, I live out here in LA, usually the guys that become these trainers of the celebrities,

1:47.4

they are the top of the top. You know, they excel at training and the celebrities have the money

1:54.7

to seek them out and seek the best. And so they get these guys and, you know, talking to them today,

2:04.0

you'll see why. Great guy and really fun interview. Christmas is coming. I hope you guys are all

2:13.6

ready. You're not already putting on your 10 pounds from Thanksgiving on myself. And yeah,

2:20.7

it's going on. But I'm trying to put it on, trying to put some weight on it. And then I'm going to

2:25.3

take it off. You know, I'm going to shred up. Ready, you know, get ready for the summer again.

2:30.0

So I do it. Win or I pack on the, pack on the beef and then I take it off. I don't know what I'm

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