Our guest on today's Awesome Health show transformed himself from a skinny, weak kid to a veteran of the weight-training world and an industry leader in fitness training. Jason Ferruggia is the founder of Renegade Fitness and the man on the Renegade Radio mic. Jason and I dig into what has inspired and motivated his personal transformation and how he motivates his clients. He also talks about what he has learned from training athletes in 70 different sports, including some of the best in the world. Join us to hear his wisdom and philosophy on episode 8 of Awesome Health podcast, brought to you by BiOptimizers. More About Awesome Health with Jason Ferruggia Jason Ferruggia grew up as a skinny, weak kid - and he hated it. During his formative years Arnold he  Schwarznegger and Sylvester Stallone were on the big screen, while Hulk Hogan and the WWE were airing on TV on Saturday mornings. He wanted to be jacked like all of those guys, and he tried to get there by playing sports but he was never good. Instead, he got into training which gave him more confidence, and helped him change his life. But the real turning point came in college when he got tuberculosis (TB) from an exchange student living on his floor in the dorms, and he had to be on bed rest for 3 months. This was in the early 90s when the Internet wasn't widely available and you could only get information on the back of magazines (like Iron Man). He found certifications and courses in those magazines, ordered a bunch of them, and spent his bed rest time devouring that content. When he was healthy again and cleared by his doctor the following spring, he became certified. Wasting no time, he started training people that same summer and the business blew up from there. He didn't know the first thing about business but it was successful! A few years later he got his first athlete, which led to more and more. In the early 2000s he began writing online; his mission then was training athletes and helping them get bigger, stronger and faster and get scholarships, break records, personal records, and the like. Today it's changed a bit and he says he has a more well-rounded approach. He teaches his clients on everything from personal development to mindset to training. He works with his clients to unleash their strongest self in every way possible. Simple Steps Lead To Long-Lasting Results Because he's worked with so many people in various stages of their lives, and he's gone through several decades of his own transformation and training, I wanted to hear Jason's thoughts on the most important components of looking and feeling good through your 20s, 30s, and 40s. Jason has a direct approach, he believes in simplifying training and nutrition for the average person. Most people need something simple to follow, and he resists the urge to do the fancy, cool stuff! He also strives to help people adopt one new habit at a time. He has found most people try to take on 5 new habits at a time and they get 100% failure rate when they do. So if someone tries to give up bad nutritional habits (like soda, Big Macs, etc.) and immediately decides they are also going to train 6 days a week, then they have set themselves up for failure. Instead he recommends they just stop the Big Macs and do a 10-minute work out to get started. With that advice in mind, I was curious what his recommendations would be for someone who is 30 pounds overweight and hasn't trained much since their high school athletic days. I asked Jason where does he suggest starting? Again he wants to make it simple, but fun because everybody gets bored otherwise. For a few weeks he would do the same workout with them, and then he'd switch it up by changing their reps, change the grip, or adding some other kind of change every week. He would also switch up their workouts between upper body, and lower body And he would set PRs along the way because everyone likes to see themselves improve. We all have fun going watching our push-