A Peak Behind the Curtain in Pro Bodybuilding and the Supplement Industries w/ Alex Michael Turner — Barbell Shrugged #427
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Alex started lifting weights as soon as he left high school after suffering from bullying. He wanted to build a strong and healthy physique as he weighed a total of 112 lbs. He didn’t want to be the guy being picked on anymore. Alex recalls, “I did not want to be the skinny kid anymore, so I progressed quickly in the gym and increased my knowledge of fitness daily.”
After one year of hard training, his weight jumped up by 26lbs and managed to maintain a low body fat percentage no higher than 5%. In total, after a sold years training, he built a lean physique of 196lbs. From that point onwards, Alex has become a highly recognized fitness model and bodybuilder. He continues to motivate and inspire people all over the world while working as a personal trainer.
In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, the guys take a loom inside the world of SHREDZ, the bodybuilding world, and supplement industry exposing what is real, fake, and really fake in the supplement industry.
In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, Anders Varner and Doug Larson discuss:
What led Turner to the gym.
How bullying fueled his passion for the weights.
Being broke and selling supplements
Overcoming poverty and the rise of social media for his career.
The rise and fall of SHREDZ
And more…
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| 0:00.0 | Stop spending all your money on ridiculous gadgets that will never make you stronger. |
| 0:05.0 | Trust me, if you don't want the Apple Watch Fitbit combo thing tracking your steps. |
| 0:11.0 | Those are for people that need banty gimmicks to boringly talk about their fitness. |
| 0:16.0 | If someone asks you what you got for Black Friday, you cut the crap. |
| 0:20.0 | You tell it to him straight. I bought myself a 400lb back squat and a 500lb deadlift. |
| 0:27.0 | It's not on my wrist. It's on his gigantic legs. It's big back. |
| 0:32.0 | Forrest at a hard work. Being a boss when I walk in the way room. |
| 0:36.0 | Look, I'm handing you 12 months of lifetime PRs. |
| 0:40.0 | Not only are you going to get insanely jacked, you're going to keep so much cash with the strong Black Friday deals. |
| 0:47.0 | Pay attention my yoked friends. One ton strong. |
| 0:50.0 | Brand new, eight week training plan preparing you for the One Ton Challenge. |
| 0:54.0 | Eight weeks to PR your snatch clean jerk squat deadlift and bench press. |
| 0:59.0 | Because you've been dying to do the One Ton Challenge. |
| 1:02.0 | But you want a fast training plan to get there. So I got you. |
| 1:06.0 | Twenty rep back squats back on sale. |
| 1:09.0 | Someone omitted to grow gigantic asses and thick barrel abs. |
| 1:13.0 | I've searched weight rooms across the world, all of the world, traveled over the seas. |
| 1:18.0 | Guess what? Twenty rep back squats are the single most dreaded and effective way to grow. |
| 1:23.0 | A giant posterior chain. |
| 1:27.0 | Fills and thick abs. |
| 1:29.0 | And then the One Ton Challenge friends were dropping the price by $1200 on the One Ton Challenge. |
| 1:36.0 | And you're going to say 20% on top of that. It's insanity. |
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