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Ep 158: Don Saladino - ”The Super Hero’s Trainer”

Choose Hard

Cody McBroom

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness:fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.8812 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Don Saladino comes on the podcast today to share how he prepares actors like Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds for major movie roles. As well as shares his story, philosphy on nutrition and supplements, keys to being a great coach, and so much more... You guys are really going to enjoy this episode!Check Out Cody's Latest Training Program, Functional Muscle, by visiting http://boomboomperformance.com/functional-muscle Get Coach Cody's E-Book, "The Nutrition Hierarchy:&n...

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0:00.0

What is going on, everybody.

0:01.4

Welcome to another episode of the Boom Boom Performance Podcast.

0:04.8

Today's guest is literally a super guest.

0:08.6

And what I mean by that is he is the guy training superheroes or training actors to become superheroes, I guess you could say.

0:15.6

But he is the guy that got Hugh Jackman ready for Wolverine, the guy who has been getting Ryan Reynolds ready for

0:21.0

Deadpool 2 and all of his movies for the last 10 years. He's the guy that has been training

0:24.8

pro golfers, celebrities, models, and a ton of other really cool people up in New York City

0:28.8

at his facility. This guy is Don Saladino. Me and Don got connected, started chatting, and then

0:35.8

we ended up doing a podcast, and I really,

0:37.9

really enjoyed him on the show for many reasons.

0:40.5

But one of the main reasons is because this guy is very on point with his training, his

0:45.2

nutrition, his recovery modality.

0:47.1

It's every, like the way he views training and performance is really cool, holistic, and

0:52.7

very similar to how I approach everything.

0:55.3

In fact, we agreed on almost 100% of everything he is doing with these actors, which is a

1:00.1

really cool thing to hear because I think a lot of people assume Wolverine, getting ready

1:04.7

for Wolverine, Hugh Jackman, is in the gym for two hours a day, doing cardio, doing

1:10.2

all these different supplements.

1:12.0

And it's almost like this crazy process. But in reality, what he's doing is very

1:16.4

functional based movements, holistic based whole food approach, focusing on sleep and

1:21.3

recovery and lowering stress through different recovery modalities, whether that's massage

1:25.0

or sleep or cryo or whatever it may be. So when I talk to

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