Take Your Training, Nutrition, and Life to the Next Level w/ Bobby Maximus (Throwback Classic)
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
A lot of people say they don't want to be average but it's a rare breed of man that lives their life like it's their mission to destroy mediocrity.
Bobby Maximus, my guest in this episode of Renegade Radio, is one of the few.
He's a former police officer and Defensive Tactics Instructor. He has competed in the UFC, won submission of the night at Ultimate Fight Night 5, starred on Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter Series, and was the Ring of Fire light-heavyweight champion.
He has also served as General Manager at Gym Jones, an elite strength and conditioning facility in Salt Lake City, UT and went on to create a world-class brand and gym of his own.
His "Maximus" family of brands is a rising force in the world of fitness and exercise and his book "Maximus Body: The Physical and Mental Training Plan That Shreds Your Body, Builds Serious Strength, and Makes You Unstoppably Fit," is one of the most popular exercise books in existence.
In this episode you'll learn tips from Bobby to take your training, nutrition, and life to the next level...
- Are "cheat meals" a myth? [11:31]
- Why you should NEVER be a slave to a number. [24:31]
- The optimal training program for the Average Joe in his 40's? [32:13]
- How to balance intensity and recovery. [39:52]
- Be tough without being an asshole. [42:30]
- The importance of training your mental performance and creating lifelong habits. [57:36]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One of the things you told me that I was fascinated by it is just crazy |
| 0:09.1 | this story about how you got sick so you tell everybody about that a little bit and what happened. |
| 0:13.7 | Yeah, so last year I actually was going to, it was Iron Wars 3 at CT Fletcher's and I'm fairly decent at Bench Press like I can Bench Press four or five for six |
| 0:26.7 | so I'm like okay I'll show up I'm not gonna beat you know Kevin the Hulk |
| 0:30.7 | Washington is or like I'm not gonna be guys like that but I can at least like be proud of myself and I could barely put up 315 |
| 0:38.7 | But I didn't know what was what was wrong, but it was weird enough like I know if I drop 10% performance it's |
| 0:45.1 | bad sleep hotel food this was odd yeah I also started noticing that I was |
| 0:51.4 | losing a lot of weight. I ended up losing 47 pounds in 30 |
| 0:56.1 | days. I was shitting blood throwing up. Like I was a mess. Went into the doctor and it turned out I had something called Clistram |
| 1:06.1 | Difficil or C-Dif for short I also had Campbell Bactor C-BO and H- Pylori and I was a disaster. I didn't know much about this stuff though like I've never heard of this. |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah. So they gave me some antibiotics and took them and I didn't get better and I took more antibiotics I didn't get better. And I took more antibiotics. |
| 1:23.7 | I didn't get better. |
| 1:25.0 | Five months I dealt with this. |
| 1:26.8 | I was in and out of the hospital, |
| 1:28.9 | numerous doctors visits. |
| 1:30.8 | At one point, I was pretty much bedridden for six weeks. |
| 1:34.4 | Doesn't mean I couldn't get out of bed. |
| 1:36.1 | I mean I could struggle to the bathroom, but I mean I told you a story earlier |
| 1:40.9 | in the middle of emptying the dishwasher. I was dripping sweat. |
| 1:45.1 | I felt like I was going to throw up out of breath and I mean like, and I'm like I'm |
| 1:50.9 | the most out of shape ever I could barely get up a flight of stairs and I was completely destroyed and decimated and I mean I really almost lost my life 200,000 people had this last year, 40K died. |
| 2:04.2 | I was so insane. |
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