How To Strip Fat Fast, Single Sets To Failure, CBD Dosing, Boxing For Fitness & More: The Jay Ferruggia Podcast
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 3 March 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Jay Ferruggia has been helping people become the strongest version of themselves since 1994. You may have seen his work in Men’s Health, Muscle & Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Men’s Fitness, Fast Company, Huffington Post, LiveStrong, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Shape, Entrepreneur, Details or on ESPN or CBS. You know how group training is the big thing these days? He was doing that in the mid 90’s. The hardcore, underground warehouse gyms that are so popular nowadays? He had one of those back in ’96. Training like an athlete? Flipping tires, dragging sleds, pressing logs, using rings? He has been doing that for 20+ years with his clients, long before it was popular or on TV commercials. What you may not know is that over the course of his life he's been physically and mentally weak, skinny, fat, sad, depressed, insecure, painfully shy, socially awkward, crippled with anxiety and indecision, struggled with addiction, and have gone broke on more than one occasion.
During my discussion with Jay in today's podcast, you'll discover:
-What happened to Jay when he didn't touch a weight for 12 weeks in a row and switched to body weight training only...[12:47]
-Jay's current strategies for maintaining his body as he ages, and his personal longevity tactics...[16:50]
-Jay's top tips for getting in great shape, in just 3-4 hours a week...[28:17] -
How Jay monitors his bloodwork, and the diet and supplements he takes...[46:45]
-The fastest way to lose fat safely and the best substitute for uphill sprints...[55:55]
-How to use single sets to failure for massive fitness responses...[60:27]
-And much more...
Resources from this episode: -Books by Jason Ferruggia (including "Pushing The Limits", which Ben discusses in this episode as a very good body weight training book) -Jason's podcast -Tony Jeffries Box N' Burn podcast -Craig Ballantyne Perfect Day podcast -The CBD Ben mentions -The Qualia God Pill Ben mentions -Alex Viada Juggernaut training and Hybrid athlete training systems -The PeakFitPro isometric machine Ben talks about - use code greenfield to get $200 off -The Chris Holder podcast -The Mike Salemi podcast -The lab tests that Ben recommends
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. That joke never gets old. |
| 0:04.3 | No, it actually does. I should probably stop and find something new to make you laugh. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:11.2 | And today's show is pretty cool because it is with a guy who I was able to spend some time |
| 0:16.8 | with in Santa Monica recently. |
| 0:19.0 | And I was on his show there. We recorded in his giant skyscraper apartment that's like |
| 0:25.5 | blue and white and made me feel like I was in a fish aquarium. |
| 0:30.0 | But we made this amazing like CBD mushroom tea. And then I sat next to his 200 pound-ish |
| 0:38.8 | kettlebell and podcasted with him. But that episode was on his podcast. |
| 0:44.1 | The episode you're about to hear is when he came on my podcast where we talked about how |
| 0:47.4 | to strip fat fast and single sets to failure. CBD dosing, boxing for fitness a whole lot |
| 0:53.1 | more. His name is Jay Faruja. Jay Faruja of Renegade Radio. So cool, cool show. Man after |
| 1:00.7 | my own heart. If I don't say so myself, I don't know why I just said that. But I did. |
| 1:06.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Jiu-Ju-v. Can't say that without saying it like that. Jiu-J-O-O-V-V is |
| 1:14.7 | how you spell that, which is why I pronounce it like that. You guys already know. Guys and |
| 1:19.0 | girls, hopefully already know that I use this thing called a Jiu-V light literally every |
| 1:24.4 | day in my office. I pull down my pants and I shine this infrared light on my balls to |
| 1:31.8 | increase my testosterone. Bulls is a bad word if you say it like you're from the Bronx. |
| 1:37.5 | So anyways, there's some fascinating studies on infrared light and specifically red and |
| 1:43.2 | near infrared light and activation of the late excels and the testes for increased testosterone |
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| 1:52.2 | Applied Physiology on muscle thickness and peak exercise torque when using this concept |
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