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Hurdle with Emily Abbate

77. Harley Pasternak, Nutrition Expert & Celebrity Trainer

Hurdle with Emily Abbate

iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ariana Grande. Charlie Puth. Jessica Simpson. Harley Pasternak’s lengthy list of celebrity clientele is impressive (total understatement). But long before Pasternak was training A-listers and working with big-name brands like Reebok, Propel, Four Seasons, and more — he thought he wanted to be a doctor. In episode 77, we chat about the frightening experience that made him change his major back in college, and how he started lecturing about performance enhancing substances at just 19 years old. We also talk about something that he really struggled with until recently, and that was intense sugar cravings He tells me about a recent #hurdlemoment involving one-too-many chocolate chip cookies that inspired him to create an essential tool, an all-natural mint called Sweetkick. Trust me: Pasternak’s got a lot of information to give. This is one episode you don’t want to miss.

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0:00.0

Hey, hurdlers. Emily Abadi here coming at you with episode 77 of hurdle, a podcast that talks to

0:09.0

everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how they've gotten through tough times,

0:14.2

hurdles of sorts, by leaning in to wellness. Today, I am sitting down with Harley Pasternak. He is well known as a celebrity

0:23.1

trainer working with everyone in his past from Halle Berry to Ariana Grande, but the man wears

0:29.6

many hats, which we will get into in just a little bit. This is fun because I've had the

0:34.6

opportunity to chat with Harley so many times now. I've known the guy for years.

0:38.5

He is so, so good at what he does and so obscenely knowledgeable.

0:44.3

We've sat down everywhere from the Coachella Valley to Hong Kong.

0:48.2

So it's been a wild ride.

0:51.1

Before we get into it, a shout out to my sponsor, Whoop. Woop is a wrist-worn heart rate

0:58.7

monitor and I get a lot of questions about why I'm wearing it in combination with other fitness

1:05.2

wearables, specifically my Apple Watch. I pretty much wear the two of them every single day together. And that's because

1:12.7

the two devices do very different things. Of course, the Apple Watch tells time. Woop does not

1:18.8

have a watch face, but Whoop gives me a lot of really in-depth data that I'm not getting

1:25.0

from a look at my Apple Watch. It analyzes different variables like strain, sleep, and recovery.

1:30.9

It talks to me about heart rate variability and really just helps me train smarter.

1:36.6

If you want to experience it for yourself, head on over to whoop.com.

1:41.2

They are offering hurdle listeners a special, special deal. Not only do you get a free

1:46.9

whoop strap, but you also get 15% off any membership using the code hurdle. Again, head on over

1:54.5

to whoop.com. That's w-h-o-op.com and use the code hurdle for a free whoop strap and 15% off to optimize the way you

2:04.0

train. Next up, a little bit of love to athletic greens. I never regularly took anything that

2:11.1

had prebiotics or probiotics before I started using athletic greens. And what I love about

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