Today I'm honored to introduce you to Alex Sterner, a husband, father to an adorable 15-month-old boy,

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt, Strength Coach to some of the world's greatest jujitsu athletes,

and one of the best no-b-s fitness content creators.

Alex is brilliant, articulate, and has earned my utmost respect.

He works relentlessly hard to provide free, helpful, and encouraging content to help people get

stronger, build muscle, improve their athletic performance, and become confident pushing

themselves beyond what they believe is possible.

This is my first time meeting Alex in person, and I'm blessed to have him here on the show.

Alex, welcome the podcast.

Man, I hope I could live up to that.

I hope so, too. It's quite a name. So who are you? Who am I? Yeah, man, I really like

helping people achieve what they're capable of in the weight room. I have a personal passion for Jiu-Jitsu, which I've had the

blessing of like blending what I do with work. So yeah, it's really just a matter of building a life

around those two things that I've had as a passion for a really long time and trying to have

as positive of an impact as I can with as many

people as possible along the way. What misconceptions do people have about you? About me?

Man. That I don't lift. I think, you know, the frame on Instagram can be a little bit brutal.

And my proportions might not be that of like the typical fitness influencer, right?

I think people are bombarded with a specific, like,

image of people on TRT at the age of 29 or, you know, people that are strictly in the

bodybuilding space. But yeah, I think there's, I think there's a little bit of a stigma against people who don't look to part, right?

I relate.

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