Jay Ferruggia: Body Transformation, 80:20 Principle, Relationship Building | Ep. 138

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

I’m Jay Ferruggia, and I’ve been helping guys become the strongest version of themselves since 1994.

You may have seen my 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? I was doing that in the mid 90’s.

The hardcore, underground warehouse gyms that are so popular nowadays? I had one of those back in ’96.

Training like an athlete? Flipping tires, dragging sleds, pressing logs, using rings? Been doing that for 20+ years with my clients. Long before it was popular or on TV commercials.

What you may not know is that I have struggled with all of the issues I discuss on this site.

Over the course of my life I’ve 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.

Overcoming those obstacles took many years and a lot of hard work.

I read over 500 books.

I attended countless conferences and workshops.

I hired coaches and mentors.

I cut out the negative deadbeats in my life.

I slowly eliminated one bad habit at a time and replaced it with a new one.

What I learned after all that is that Thoreau, Da Vinci and Bruce Lee were right.

Simplicity is the key to health, wealth and happiness.

Learning to apply the 80/20 rule to everything and forgetting the rest.

Because the reality is that most things don’t matter. It’s just noise and meaningless nonsense that distracts us from living the lives we want.

Life is simple really, but we insist on making it complicated.
– Confucius

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0:00.0	I said empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water.
0:08.0	It's about how hard you hit.
0:10.0	It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward.
0:13.6	How much you can take and keep moving forward?
0:16.4	Join Movement Expert Aaron Alexander
0:19.4	as he dives into the minds of the foremost innovative health care thinkers and movement masters on their approach to optimal health and wellness.
0:28.0	A Line Podcast.
0:30.0	Welcome back to Line Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander.
0:32.0	Today's beautiful episode. I got to have somebody that I value greatly in the world of
0:36.7	fitness movement and life in general, Mr. Jay Ferrujia. Jay has been in the fitness industry since 1994. You can see his work in
0:46.0	Muscle and Fitness, Men's Health, Puffington Post, Live Strong, entrepreneur, magazine,
0:50.8	shape all over the place. He's worked with everybody he's
0:53.7	been doing it forever and highly respected fella in this world so I really
0:58.4	greatly appreciate his time. In this conversation we get into the power of the 80-20 principle essentialism
1:06.2	relationship building the value of relationships in your in your business in your life and in your health. So really fun conversation.
1:15.4	Hope you guys enjoy. Here's a little clip. Yes you have to know a ton about
1:18.9	training and nutrition and all that but I think you're once you have that covered, the main thing you need to do is figure out how to build and maintain
1:27.2	successful relationship.
1:29.0	If you feel called to tune into the website, align therapy.com is where it's at. On there you can start the
1:36.5	five day movement challenge and you can also pick up the show notes for this episode and all the previous 138 or whatever we done. I really appreciate you
1:46.8	guys checking that out. Got a little portion out of the book The Book by Alan Watts on the taboo against knowing who you are and
1:55.7	really interesting part here it breaks down the word physical and so physical from the Greek physics, which means nature, and the original Indo-European
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