Building Muscle on Keto with Body Building Champion Robert Sikes
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Vanessa Spina
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🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Robert Sikes, AKA Keto Savage, is a lifetime natural competitive keto bodybuilder. Using the ketogenic diet, he has seen consistent gains in building lean muscle mass, finding it to be much less stressful on the body than bulking and cutting the traditional way with carbs.
Robert Sikes went from a 115-pound kid in high school to 230 pounds in college and started competing in 2010. A few years ago he began transitioning to a keto bodybuilding approach and found that his body recovered faster after competitions and that the ketogenic diet provided a much more sustainable and healthier way to building lean muscle.
When not training, you can find Robert providing online coaching through his company Keto Savage.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fast Keto. I'm your host, Ketogenic Girl. |
| 0:05.7 | Did you know that your body can actually be either a sugar burner or a fat burner? |
| 0:12.0 | On this podcast, we talk all about how to make your body a fat burning fat-fueled machine |
| 0:18.0 | and engaging your full metabolic flexibility. I'm Vanessa Spina. I am a |
| 0:23.4 | sport nutrition specialist, a biomedical science student at U of T, and I am the author of the |
| 0:31.5 | best-selling cookbook keto essentials available on Amazon and creator of the Ketogenic Girl Challenge |
| 0:37.0 | program. And I am obsessed with |
| 0:38.9 | optimizing our health through all these different biohacks, ketogenesis, intermittent fasting, |
| 0:45.2 | all of these amazing tools that center around making the body a fat-adapted, fat-fueled machine. |
| 0:52.4 | With this in mind, I present interviews to you with biomedical scientists, |
| 0:56.6 | physicians, and people from all around the world who have experienced remarkable results from |
| 1:01.7 | following a low carb or ketogenic diet and getting their body into ketogenesis. So I hope you |
| 1:08.4 | guys enjoy these interviews with this goal in mind. Hey guys, thanks for tuning into this episode of Fast Keto. This episode is with Robert |
| 1:18.5 | Sykes, also known as Keto Savage. And today we talk all about Robert's personal journey |
| 1:25.6 | with keto. We talk a lot about building muscle and maintaining |
| 1:30.4 | muscle and growing your lean mass on a keto diet, how he's done this himself successfully |
| 1:37.4 | and gone on to win bodybuilding competitions, how he's doing his new one right now and his |
| 1:44.1 | contest prep, which he is in |
| 1:45.6 | the middle of in preparing for his next show, which is going to be in the spring. And it was so |
| 1:51.7 | much fun to have Robert on. We have a lot in common in terms of when we both sort of got |
| 1:56.0 | interested in the keto space about six years ago, how we both maintain the state of ketosis all of the |
| 2:03.0 | time. And just our philosophies and approaches to keto are very, very similar. And I had a blast |
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