FIT2FAT2FIT to Optimal Health w/ Drew Manning, Anders Varner, Doug Larson and Travis Mash #800
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Drew Manning is The NY Times Best Selling Author of the book, Fit2Fat2Fit, and creator of the hit TV show, Fit To Fat To Fit on A&E. He’s been featured on many TV shows such as Dr. Oz, The Tonight Show, CNN, The View, GMA and many more. With over 1 million social media followers, Drew continues on his mission to reshape the fitness industry with an empathy first approach helping people with not only their physical health, but also their mental health. Drew is also a certified breath work practitioner and resides in Hawai’i with his two teenage daughters and is currently enrolled in a Master’s program in psychology.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug. |
| 0:02.1 | Drew Manning is coming into the podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Many of you may know him from the TV show |
| 0:09.0 | or the ridiculously crazy experiment |
| 0:11.8 | he did on himself twice. |
| 0:13.5 | There's a reason the show is called Fit to Fat to Fit |
| 0:17.4 | to Fit because that is the journey that he went on |
| 0:19.1 | and he is going to be talking about going from |
| 0:21.5 | a super shredded human to intentionally gaining 60 pounds which makes me feel very very anxious |
| 0:30.4 | just even thinking about i actually tell the story in here in this podcast but i had somebody |
| 0:34.6 | one of the casting people when i lived in the soCal area, reach out to me to be on his show. |
| 0:41.5 | And I just couldn't do it. |
| 0:42.5 | I couldn't find, I couldn't understand how it was going to actually gain 60 pounds. |
| 0:46.5 | It was, it like totally freaked me out. |
| 0:48.6 | So it's kind of very, it's very fun having him on here. |
| 0:51.6 | So I can actually tell that story and talk to him about how impressive and scary that journey |
| 0:56.2 | is for him. |
| 0:57.4 | But also, Drew is now on our team in that he has been looking for something that takes |
| 1:04.4 | fit to fat to fit into the next phase that kind of all of us go through when we're on this. |
| 1:09.8 | We're always interested in getting |
| 1:11.8 | strong, having a body that looks like we work out, then we get into nutrition to figure out |
| 1:17.3 | abs are made in the kitchen and you hear all these things. But once we came across him and he |
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