Alex Turner - Training, Nutrition, and the Influencer Lifestyle — Real Chalk #90
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
I originally met Alex a few years while he was sponsored by a huge supplement brand called "SHREDZ." The company sponsored several athletes at the time and in just a short period of time and built them into super stars. It was at that time I started to ask a lot of questions and see what exactly all these people were doing that was giving them the kind of income that had people driving around in Lamborghinis and such. It was a crazy time and I'm fortunate to have known a few of the pioneers like Alex from that time.
In this episode we touch on a little of what makes a solid "influencer" and how training modalities and nutrition has changed over the years. I also ask Alex to share about his own fitness and nutrition regimens that he's used over the years and what his opinions are on all of them. Lot of great chatter in this one that is sure to get you pumped for the week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello again my beautiful people out there this week's episode we're gonna be sitting down with mr. Alex |
| 0:07.0 | Michael Turner. I met Alex way back in the day when I was actually dating a girl named Nikki who was part of the shreds |
| 0:14.2 | Supplement team and he was on that team as well and at the time it was just a crazy crazy time like |
| 0:22.6 | Supplements were just hitting the Instagram scene and a lot of people that were sponsored by companies like shreds |
| 0:29.0 | We're like legit movie stars like these kids were rolling fat Lamborghinis just the craziest stories and the craziest lifestyles |
| 0:37.4 | You'd ever seen and it was my first time being introduced to it. I didn't even know it was happening |
| 0:42.1 | I went to a meeting one day with Nikki and I was like holy crap these kids are insane like what are they all doing? |
| 0:47.7 | You know and I had so many questions and |
| 0:51.0 | Alex was one of those people who he was always cool and he always talked to me |
| 0:54.9 | We always like wrapped back and forth and I saw him over the years even after shreds was gone |
| 0:59.5 | Which we talked about in the show and he's had a whole bunch of other things kind of going on |
| 1:03.4 | But one thing that he's really good at is he's a great influencer and he has a great outlook on the whole influence |
| 1:09.2 | influencer, you know lifestyle and stuff like that |
| 1:11.5 | He's gonna share a lot of his favorite things and a lot of the things that you know are really hard about being an influencer |
| 1:16.6 | There's a lot of people want to be an influencer and they don't understand how much work actually goes into it |
| 1:21.0 | So we hit that a little bit |
| 1:22.6 | We also talk about because he is a competitive bodybuilder at times |
| 1:27.1 | how much nutrition and |
| 1:29.7 | Workout regimens have changed over the years. I mean when he started to now |
| 1:34.2 | I talk a little bit about like some of the things that I saw when I first started to now |
| 1:38.4 | He's been in bodybuilding the whole time. I was an athlete doing regular bodybuilding |
| 1:43.0 | Then I was training to be an athlete again |
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