Gym Culture w/ Kenny Santucci, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #820
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
With over a decade of experience, Kenny Santucci has made himself a known as one of New York City’s top trainers and a thought leader in the health and wellness industry. Brand ambassador for Michelob Ultra and Fitaid, Technogym Master Trainer, host of the Fitaid Morning Show, Michelob Ultra MOVEMENT Fitness Festival, Model Beach Volleyball, and more, Santucci has established himself as a force within the fitness space. He has collaborated with industry titans across the health, wellness, and lifestyle space such as Reebok, Under Armour, Adidas, ASICS, Rhone, Melin, Cellucor, Bodybulding.com, CrossFit, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Precision Nutrition, Nautica, TimeOut, Gregory’s Coffee, and more.
Kenny has also shared his training approach and wellness philosophy with features in top health and wellness publications such as Shape Magazine, Men’s Health Magazine, Men’s Journal, Well+Good, Askmen.com, Reebok.com, and Women’s Health Magazine to name a few.
Kenny lives his mantra of helping others well beyond the walls of the gym. As the creator of the STRONG New York health and wellness series, he is the heart and leader behind these events that have already raised thousands of dollars and brought awareness to the community around men's and women's health issues, with a portion of the proceeds going to different health-focused organizations such as the Alzheimer’s Awareness Foundation, Movember Foundation and Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
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| 0:00.0 | Shark family this week on Barbell Shr, Kenny Santucci, our good friend. |
| 0:04.0 | We used to hang out with Kenny Santucci like quarterly. |
| 0:07.0 | And then, if you remember back in the day when they locked us all in our houses |
| 0:11.0 | over a scary, scary bug we all couldn't see called COVID-19, if you remember that one, |
| 0:16.0 | once that happened, we stopped seeing Candy Santucci, which is really depressing |
| 0:20.0 | because Kenny is one of the most fun people in the entire fitness industry. I've never had a bad time, and everybody that's around him always has a good time, which is also why we're talking about gym culture today. And he owns two gyms up in the Jersey, New York area. And when he was a part of solace, if you were ever to be a part of that gym or train there in New York City. |
| 0:40.1 | Pre-COVID days, I remember walking down the stairs and just a blaring loud, bad beats going nonstop. |
| 0:48.3 | Classes were packed. |
| 0:49.7 | People are having a great time working their butts off and nobody better to talk about what makes a great |
| 0:55.4 | gym than Kenny Tentucci. As always, friends, make sure you get over to rapid health report.com. |
| 1:00.2 | That's where Dan Gardner, Dr. Andy Galpin are doing a free lab lifestyle performance analysis. |
| 1:04.0 | You can access that at rapid health report.com. Friends, let's get into the show. |
| 1:13.6 | Let's do it. Welcome to Robert O'SRogg,'amanders warner Doug larson Kenny santucci dude |
| 1:16.3 | the best |
| 1:18.0 | how we doing boys |
| 1:19.4 | hold on a second before we get rolling everybody needs to understand |
| 1:22.7 | Kenny santucci you are |
| 1:24.8 | every time I have been to New York and hung out with you, there is like a flock of humans following you around, whether we are at Strong New York, whether we were at Salas, probably as your new gym, or whether we're out having a few cold adult beverages at night. |
| 1:40.9 | But that flock of humans knows that if they follow Kenny Santucci, things will come their way. |
| 1:46.7 | It's usually a beautiful flock of humans for the record. |
| 1:48.8 | It is not bad-looking people for certain. |
| 1:51.3 | I appreciate that. Thank you. |
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