Steve Cook, Professional Physique Model, 954k Instagram Followers, and Dancing with Fear - EP. 27

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this interview, we discuss the diet and training of a professional physique competitor with Steve Cook.

Last year Brooke Ence called me and asked me if I wanted to coach a “Big time bodybuilder.” I told her I had no experience whatsoever with bodybuilding and didn't know how I could help him. She explained that he wanted to do a little Crossfit type stuff and learn some weight lifting and gymnastics. I said yes. That guy was Steve Cook (@SteveCook).

Steve is one of the most recognized names in the fitness industry and has competed in the Men’s Physique category at Mr. Olympia for the past several years. What I found most interesting were the things about his personal life. How to process 900k Instagram followers, how to deal with self-doubt, and how to work through the fear of failure.

In this episode, we cover lots of different topics. Here’s a summary:

His diet during the off-season
How he cut 8 weeks out from a competition, and what he’d do differently now
How he trains compared to how everyone else trains
A list of people he attributes to his success
The push-up punishment/reward technique
How he pushes through the fear of failure
Rules he gives himself for social media usage
His thought process on dealing with fame and staying connected to those he loves

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up guys? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.
0:04.2	This week I interview professional physique competitor and leader of Swolger Nation, Steve Cook.
0:10.6	Steve is a very interesting guy. He's got one of the best looking bodies on the planet and he keeps that
0:17.6	physique by using the same kind of training methods that he learned in college mixed with some traditional type bodybuilding exercises.
0:27.0	In this interview, we talk about his diet during the off season as well as cutting eight weeks out from a fight.
0:36.8	We talk about his training and how it differs from the rest of his competition.
0:41.0	And then the most interesting stuff to me is when we start talking about how he deals with the fear of failure
0:48.0	Who he attributes to his success and rules that he gives himself for things like social media and how he deals with
0:57.0	just being famous in general and how he stays connected to the people that he loves and prevents himself from feeling
1:06.5	disconnected from those people. Lots of good stuff in this. Hope you enjoy the show.
1:11.2	Steve, what's up man? Hello, hello.
1:13.9	What's happening, dude?
1:14.9	Very good.
1:15.9	I'm glad we could finally do this.
1:18.9	Yeah, I'm definitely excited.
1:20.9	I'm in Arizona right now, the sun's sun shining so I'm doing well.
1:24.0	Nice nice. So a lot of my audience probably has never even heard your name yet.
1:30.0	Can you explain or can you tell us a little bit about yourself what what you've
1:36.7	competed in the last several years and some of your accomplishments? Yeah we we can talk about myself.
1:44.7	Why not?
1:45.7	For me, so the last couple of years I've been competing in the I. F. B. Minsk physique division, which is board shorts.
1:59.0	It's not quite as upfront and personal as the little tiny posing trunks that the body
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