Episode 55: Kenny Santucci, Fitness Coach & Former Reality TV Star

Hurdle

Emily Abbate

Health & Fitness

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Chat with Kenny Santucci and you’ll immediately realize a few things: he’s clearly from Jersey, got an affinity for fitness, and a no BS sort of guy. These days, the former reality star is spending his days coaching and running operations at Solace, a New York City gym offering everything from CrossFit to yoga classes. But just over 15 years ago, as a high school freshman, Santucci tipped the scale at over 225 pounds. In episode 55, we talk about how picking up wrestling helped him shed the weight and develop some essential confidence, which propelled him all the way to traveling the world for MTV. We talk about the post-filming #hurdlemoment that had Santucci living out of his car, the recent family struggles that have shaped him into being a better son, friend, and business partner, and how he’s managed to turn his passions into his full-time, dream career. SOCIAL @kennysantucci @solacenewyork @hurdlepodcast @emilyabbate OFFERS Athletic Greens | Head to athleticgreens.com/hurdle to get 20 free travel packs ($79 value) with your first purchase, no code necessary. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hurdle/message

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0:00.0	Hello, hurdlers. Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Episode 55 of Hurtle, a podcast that talks to everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how they got through tough times, hurdles of sorts, by leaning into wellness. In today's episode, I'm chatting with Mr. Beautiful himself, Kenny Santucci. He is a self-proclaimed fitness
0:24.6	enthusiast. You also might recognize him from past seasons of MTV's The Challenge and some other good
0:31.7	things. I'm just going to say this right off the bat. This episode kind of just feels like one big
0:37.1	breath of fresh air because he's so
0:39.0	honest and open and a good guy. Before we get into it, quick shout out to my sponsor, Athletic Greens.
0:45.7	With 12 servings of fruits and vegetables, Athletic Greens has got everything I need to start my day off
0:50.9	right. I shake it up every morning headed to the subway with about 10 to 12
0:54.7	ounces of water and a few ice cubes and it's delicious and refreshing and just perfect.
1:01.7	They're offering hurdle listeners a special deal. It's 20 free travel packs, a $79 value,
1:08.7	absolutely free with your first purchase. Just head on over to athletic greens.com
1:13.0	slash hurdle to claim it. No code necessary. Again, that's athletic greens.com slash hurdle.
1:19.7	Now, let's talk about Kenny. Kenny has made himself a staple here in the New York City
1:26.5	fitness community, But long before
1:28.8	he was doing things like barbell snatches and kettlebell cleans and coaching classes of 20 plus
1:35.6	through all sorts of crazy stuff, he was growing up in New Jersey. As a freshman in high school,
1:41.5	Kenny was actually 220 pounds.
1:45.3	He wanted to change from what he calls the Cupcake Kid.
1:48.2	So he turned to sports and fitness to transform his life and found a ton of success actually
1:52.4	wrestling, both in high school and at the college level.
1:56.0	Soon enough, he found himself at an audition for MTV's The Challenge and there he won a few
2:00.8	times and excelled at
2:02.3	all sorts of crazy things. And after the TV thing was said and done, he ended up here in New York
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