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Barbell Shrugged

Becoming a 10 Time Bodybuilding Champion w/ Lauren Powers  — Real Chalk #47

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Powers is a force of nature. After graduating high school as valedictorian, she got a business degree from the University of Hawaii, owned a surfing academy, and served as a firefighter before making her mark on the fitness industry.
 
Lauren competed in her first bodybuilding competition in 2001 and has been unstoppable ever since. With ten championships under her belt, Lauren now offers posing clinics, coaches current bodybuilding competitors, and hosts competitions with her company, Powers Fitness Events.

 

Her namesake competition, the Lauren Powers Classic, is open to all ages and experience levels. In addition to appearing in documentaries and on shows like Botched and My Strange Addiction, Lauren has been a regular on a talk show and landed a number of acting roles.

 

With such an impressive resume and so many diverse pursuits, it makes sense that Lauren and I talked about, well, pretty much everything. You'll definitely learn a thing or two from this Real CHALK episode!

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, Chalk Nation? It's Ryan Fisher coming at you with another episode. I had the opportunity this past weekend to go to the San Diego Fitness Expo and be amongst some of the most jacked human beings on earth.

0:13.6

Not only are they insanely jacked, but a lot of these people are insanely famous as well. I happened to see Mrs. Warren Powers walking by and she's one of those people that you can't really miss.

0:25.4

She is incredibly jacked. Probably one of the most jacked girls I think I've ever seen. But I remember the first time I had ever seen her before I was watching Bigger Fasser Stronger, the documentary.

0:37.8

And they pulled her onto the camera for a minute. I remember just being like, wow, that chick is so jacked. And not being in the bodybuilding world. You're not used to seeing people who look like that.

0:49.4

But not only has she been a 10 time bodybuilding world champion, she's been on NBC HBO, the travel channel, ABC, TLC, Hallmark, Real Sports, a Brian Gumball, E true Hollywood story.

1:05.2

She's been on a Lady Gaga video. She's throwing the bodybuilding world championships in Huntington Beach this weekend coming up. She's insane. She's literally everywhere.

1:16.2

And no matter where you go, I feel like you just happen to run into her and she is unrecognizable to not say hi, you know what I mean? Or not want to know who she is or not ask her a question.

1:28.0

So without knowing everything about her before I talked to her, I said, you know what? I want to have you on my show come over here and let's do this thing and she didn't know who I was.

1:37.0

And I didn't know everything about her. And I think it just made for a great conversation. She is an absolute celebrity, you know, icon for the women and bodybuilding.

1:47.8

So we just sat down, we chopped the shit, we cracked some jokes and just had a good time. So I hope you guys enjoy this episode.

1:54.6

And here is to meeting random strangers who happen to be way more famous than I am. Here we go.

2:04.2

Before we get into the show, I want to hit a couple of our sponsors who have provided us with some amazing discount codes for you guys.

2:09.6

Not only that, I really want you guys to understand that when it comes to sponsors, I pick such a select few like I'm so, so picky with it.

2:17.6

And when you guys hear my shows, I would say more than half the time. I don't even have a sponsor.

2:21.4

So if I'm going to have a sponsor on the show, it's going to be an awesome deal for you guys. And it's going to be something I really, really believe in.

2:27.4

So I hope you guys take the time to just listen for two minutes while I tell you guys about some of these amazing sponsors that we have.

2:33.8

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2:44.0

The shorts that they make are absolutely incredible. If you go to their website, it's veoryclothing.com.

2:51.6

There's a short called the Trail Short. You'll see me in my Instagram wearing these shorts quite a bit. I wear them almost every single day. They have one other one called the Ponto Short.

3:02.2

So it's between the Trail Short and the Ponto Short for myself. I like that seven inch inseam. I'm not a tall person.

3:08.4

So those are like by far the softest material of all the shorts that they have. They have like some board short material ones also.

3:15.6

I'm personally not a huge fan of them. So I don't wear them and they're also a little bit longer. But the Trail Short and the Ponto Short are absolutely insane.

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