What's up guys? This is Mike Cashew. This is the brute strength podcast. This week I interviewed my good friend Bruce Pitcher from ABC's TV show Extreme Weight Loss. On this show, he tells us what drove him to overeat for so many years and exactly how he went on to lose over 200 pounds in a year.

This is about the most inspiring story I've ever heard in my life,

and I'm excited for you to hear it.

What's up, guys?

This is Mike Cashew with the group shoot.

I am accompanied by a very good friend of mine, Bruce Pitcher.

He lost 200 pounds, what, 18 months ago?

Yep, yep.

And whenever at the end of his,

so he was on extreme weight loss, the ABC show,

and towards the end of his year year with them he worked with Tommy

Hackenbroke and about six months ago Tommy introduced me to him to do some

some CrossFit training and since then we've become pretty damn good friends and

he's uh his his episode alone inspired me and the way he lives his life so in such a

positive way is incredibly inspiring considering everything he's he's been through so i'm excited to

have you on this this podcast and hoping uh hoping it goes well.

It's going to go well, dude.

So tell them about what you're doing here this weekend.

Okay, so what I'm doing right now is I'm doing a thing called Destination Boot Camp.

And it's about like helping people, you know, like lose weight the way I did. You know, they come out here to Denver where my weight loss

journey started of a three-month boot camp and they go through the same kind of stuff that

we did. You know, we do like, for instance, even today, we did seven minutes of burpees with

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