Lee Labrada. What It Feels Like to Be Mr. Universe. Episode 554 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)

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Brad Lea

Business, Bradlea, Success, Mentor, Coach, Advice, Money, Strategy, Training, Entrepreneurship, Therealbradlea, Entrepreneur, Comedy

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Lee Labrada is a professional bodybuilder, published author and CEO of Labrada Nutrition. He won the title Mr. Universe in 1985 and placed top 4 for seven consecutive years in Mr. Olympia. In 2002, at the request of the city of Houston, Labrada launched the "Get Lean Houston" campaign to combat the city's obesity problem. In 2004, Labrada was inducted into the IFBB Pro-Bodybuilding Hall of Fame. In 2005 he wrote a fitness book. He founded the company Labrada Nutrition, which sells nutritional supplements. He is father of bodybuilder, Hunter Labrada.

In this episode, Brad and Lee talk about Lea’s career as a bodybuilder and how he’s spending his time in retirement. Additionally, they discuss their opinions on healthy habits and trends/fads. They also discuss what it felt like for Lee to be Mr. Universe.

Bomb dropped: Believe in yourself, set goals, believe in those goals, and work diligently to accomplish them.

Bomb dropped: When you have a balanced diet, you’re going to function better.

Check out https://www.labrada.com for more info about Lee and what he does!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Listen up or run forever.
0:07.0	From the people who have asked you the people who need the real
0:13.5	the Bradley is dropping.
0:23.7	What it is Bradley back again with another episode of Drop in Boms today in the studio
0:27.8	folks I've got a old school badass man 1985 you were Mr. Universe.
0:36.8	It's right.
0:37.8	Lee LeBron of folks I know if you're in the bodybuilding at all you know who this
0:40.9	dude is.
0:41.9	Icon in the industry.
0:43.9	Seven consecutive years in Mr. Olympia you place in the top four.
0:48.8	2002 the request of the City of Houston you launched Get Lean Houston
0:54.3	campaign to combat the city's obesity problem why do you think they were so obese.
0:58.9	We were voted the number one fatacity in America by men's fitness magazine at the time and
1:04.7	I started getting calls from my buddies is like hey we know you live in Houston like
1:08.3	dude what's up you know it's like everybody's fat down there and so I started getting
1:12.1	razzed and I thought to myself you know what I'm going to do is I'm going to run down
1:16.3	to City Hall I'm going to talk to the mayor and so after a series of conversations I was
1:20.6	appointed the fitness are for the City of Houston and you know from that point on you
1:25.7	know we implemented programs you know weight loss programs bilingual programs start
1:31.9	of making appearances at schools you know at events and and basically whip the city back
1:37.4	into shape two years later.
1:39.6	So so you're in the bodybuilding hall of fame as well.
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