This week on Barbell Shrug, we interview transformation expert and fitness legend Bill Phillips.

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Welcome to Barbell Shrug, I'm Mike Bleto here with Doug Larson, Chris Moore, got CTP and Charlotte

behind the cameras. We have traveled here to Muscle Beach to hang out, get yoked and fitness we worked. We're yoked. Look at this. We stumbled upon Mr. Bill Phillips.

Total accident. He just stumbled onto him. He just happened to walk around. He just wanders around here.

We look on. We got connected. We were just hanging around on the beach here and saw Mr. Bleto come by.

Mike got recognized. He was like oh, I'm so excited to meet you.

I know you're from your podcast.

Yeah.

No, but if you don't know much about Bill, he wrote a book called Body for Life. He started EAS.

Myoplex is a way protein you may have heard of. What was the magazine again, Doug?

Muscle media. Muscle media. That's right.

He was reminding me that I was like oh yeah.

And now you run a transformation center.

Yeah. Yeah, so I grew up in the, I mean I was doing the in this culture in the 80s and the 90s.

So I was competing in the Teenage Mr. America contest competing out here in Venice,

California. It was right back in memories.

Yeah. Oh yeah. We had a lot of good time back there.

Good days.

That moved out here when I was 18 years old and trained right here in Venice and was getting ready

for the Teenage Mr. America contest and I was going to take it all the way.

So we had a lot of fun. But I turned that passion for fitness and muscle building and training.

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