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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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0:00.0 | Yep. Welcome. |
0:12.9 | This is my friend Toby. Toby, tell people about yourself. |
0:17.8 | I work in the fitness industry. I spent a long time as a first responder and got into the fitness industry sort of, let me back up a couple. |
0:27.7 | I was a really small guy. |
0:29.3 | I wanted to put on some quality weight. |
0:32.0 | A friend of mine who's a competitive bodybuilder, shout out to my buddy Joe, brought me into the gym and showed me a pretty |
0:38.4 | hardcore, sort of a hardcore gym. It's a little intimidating. I go in there, I think the first day and somebody had like five, six plates loaded up on squats and was ripping it out. So it's a bit of an, you know, I'm going there, I'm like 140, 145 pounds, a skinny guy, you know. but he brought me in there, |
0:35.2 | showed me how to train, |
0:35.9 | introduced me to it, |
0:36.9 | and then after a while, |
0:38.4 | you know, |
0:38.7 | once you start doing something for a while, |
0:39.7 | people start asking you, |
0:40.5 | they take no, |
0:40.9 | hey, and they start asking you for advice. And I noticed that when I would give advice, and people would go, hey, thanks, you know, and they're accomplishing goals and stuff, I got out of that what I had been searching for, as far as job |
1:11.3 | satisfaction, I'd been searching for out of my career. And so when I married, married my wife's in |
1:16.8 | the military, we got married and, of course, can't stay in one place too long. So we moved, and I took |
1:22.0 | that opportunity to transition into the fitness space. And so I have been, since then, I have been training, coaching people from all walks |
1:34.2 | of life. |
1:34.6 | A lot of military first responders and their immediate families. |
1:40.3 | And yeah, I mean, I've been doing that ever since. |
1:42.9 | And I do some volunteer work. I do some charity work for some military centered organizations for wellness and health like that. I volunteer for a wonderful organization called Independent. And it's all about wellness for the military spouses and the military and the service members, |
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