Welcome to the Boom Boom Performance Podcast, your resource for science-based training and nutrition,

data-driven coaching, and education-focused content. Before we get into this podcast, I just want to say

thank you for taking the time to listen and learn with me so that you can apply what you are

about to learn, take my strategies, use these tools, and finally

have some serious methods to see sustainable success with your physique, your mind, and your life.

This podcast was built on the foundation of applied education, and I'm excited for you to be here

so you can have that experience with me. Now, without any further ado,

let's get on to the show.

Today's guest is a good friend of mine and somebody I've been following for years now.

His name is Maddie Fasaro, and you might know him from Instagram or YouTube because he has a

popular following

and really good content. Today we kind of just dive into his story. He has a really cool

background of a big weight loss journey. I mean, he completely transformed his body. He lost a ton

of weight. He competed. He went literally in a full 360 to transform every aspect of his life and

then begin coaching. And he did that

by picking up a camera and filming himself awkwardly, as he would say, in his kitchen and in the gym for

YouTube. He started vlogging and documenting his personal journey of transforming. That's actually

when I found him was years ago when he was going through that. And that started in 2011.

And because of that, he kept going with his journey. He got really into it. And we're actually

going to dive into how he got too into it. And he created a unbalanced way of eating an unhealthy

way, unhealthy relationship with food and cardio and competing and body image. And it's a really

cool conversation because I don't think

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