#905 - Alex Toplyn: Pro Men’s Physique
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we interview IFBB Pro Physique Athlete and Physique Coach, Alex Toplyn. Alex Toplyn had a fast and wild ride to get where he is today, in a very short period of time as you will hear in this episode! From family tragedy and losing his job, simultaneously, to winning show after show, gaining an Alphalete Sponsorship, and becoming Coach to Christian Guzman, YouTube star and owner of Alphalete, Alphaland, 3D Energy, and more... Alex Toplyn is also the coach of our very own host, Cody McBroom, and will be taking Cody through his prep into his physique competition in October, at the Summer Shredding Competition.
But in this episode, we focus more on Alex's journey from average guy to IFBB pro and physique coach! So listen in as he shares everything from his trials and tribulations, to his triumphant victories -- and the mindset required to do just that.
You can find Alex on instagram @alextoplyn_ifbbpro
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⌚TIMESTAMPS:
(0:25) - Who is Alex Toplin
(3:05) - How did you start Bodybuilding?
(8:35) - Getting inspired by your surroundings
(11:35) - Bodybuilding shows
(14:35) - Pro Card Qualification
(18:05) - Genetics in Bodybuilding
(21:30) - Training Philosophy
(26:50) - Rigid vs Flexible Diet
(32:45) - Deciding to become a Bodybuilding coach
(40:25) - Taking action and staying true to yourself
(47:20) - Future competing plans for Alex
(50:00) - Where you can find Alex and all of his content
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| 0:00.0 | Bro, you strip everything away from me. I'm a bodybuilder. I love this shit. I do the hard work. I prioritize it. |
| 0:05.6 | Bro, you trip everything away from me. I'm a bodybuilder. I love this shit. I do the hard work. I prioritize it. |
| 0:10.8 | I will sacrifice whatever I need to do in order to be the best bodybuilder. I consider myself a jack of all trades. |
| 0:16.9 | I try to take the most from a lot of different techniques. I don't think it is as simple as just calories, inverse calories out, because I think there's |
| 0:23.3 | a lot of things where digestive issues come into the plate, right? |
| 0:27.1 | Nutrient, you know, partitioning, all of these things. |
| 0:34.2 | All right, man. |
| 0:35.1 | So it's about damn time we get you on the show dude um Alex Toplin I'm excited to |
| 0:40.4 | have you on man I'm excited that uh you're taking me through my prep the first prep since 2014 |
| 0:44.8 | which is crazy because I just been in the business not not training for anything specific for a while |
| 0:50.4 | so I'm excited about it but today we're going to talk about you man we're going to talk about |
| 0:53.8 | your story your journey who you are and why you do what you do so let's start by |
| 0:57.9 | just kind of filling the listeners in with who Alex is in a nutshell yeah um if I were in an |
| 1:06.5 | Uber ride and as someone asked me who I was um I am a competitive bodybuilder, online fitness coach, |
| 1:14.6 | and I currently reside in Tampa, Florida, and born and raised in Jersey. But again, man, |
| 1:23.9 | simply following my dream. You know, I feel like I have a multitude of different passions that kind of led me down this avenue. And, man, simply following my dream. I feel like I have a multitude of different, |
| 1:28.1 | different passions that kind of led me down this avenue. And right now, I wake up happy, |
| 1:33.4 | and that's the biggest thing right now. So I'm a happy man doing what I love. |
| 1:36.6 | Love it, dude. You don't have a Jersey accent at all. No Jersey. Nope. |
| 1:44.5 | It's funny. |
| 1:45.2 | The first question people ask or first, like, statement because I have a lot of close friends who have that, like, traditional, I think it's more of a hardcore Italian kind of accent. |
| 1:54.3 | But, yeah, man, I don't know what it is. |
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