Welcome to Trained, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic fitness.

I'm Ryan Flaherty, the Senior Director of Performance at Nike.

On every episode, I co-op the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,

movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.

All the ways to train your body and mind.

Today, I'm connecting with a man who trains a list celebrities and elite athletes with

the same old exercises he'd use for the rest of us.

Any trainer that tells me that they give their clients a new workout every day, I would tell

you you're spinning your wheels.

Certain exercises require mastery, so you actually have to repeat them to get better,

and some don't require mastery, but at the same time, the results come from improving

on that exercise.

So if you never repeat it, you can never improve.

With my friend, trainer Ben Bruno, on why, when programming workouts, he comes back to

the fundamentals again and again, no matter the box office or chart position of his client.

It's true, you'll see articles about Ben with headlines like, trainer to the stars, but

you'll need to talk to him for about 5 minutes if that, before you realize that there's

nothing too glitzy about him.

Other Hollywood trainers might hitch a ride on any fitness bandwagon that rolls through

town, but Ben steers Clear of gimmicks and sticks with the basics.

Training, a little cardio, and taking a break now and then.

The exercises Ben prescribes, lunges, rows, presses might seem a little boring at first,

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