Body Building & Building Businesses

The Excellence Project with Eric Worre

Eric Worre

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Networkmarketing, Business, Ericworre, Mlm

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

7-time Mr. Olympia Flex Lewis details his working-class upbringing in Wales, why he had to hide lifting weights from his parents, the circumstances around his move to the U.S. and his transitions from entrepreneur to professional bodybuilder to public speaker. He also gives Eric advice on how to lose fat and build muscle. 1:51:42

Show Notes:

0:00 - Introduction

01:19 - Eric welcomes 7-Time Mr. Olympia Flex Lewis to The Excellence Project.

08:07 - Flex shares that he was a rugby player and a sprinter before he became a weightlifter.

11:50 - The moment Flex realized he wanted and needed big muscles. HIs parents disagreed.

15:28 - Flex details how he secretly started lifting weights.

18:37 - Flex starts participating in powerlifting competitions but then transitions to bodybuilding.

26:48 - Flex reveals that he has always been entrepreneurial and started a successful moving company when he was in college.

35:09 - Flex is invited to visit Gold’s Gym in the U.S.

39:07 - Eric and Flex discuss bodybuilding legend Ronnie Coleman.

47:39 - Flex shares how he transitioned from amateur to professional bodybuilding.

58:58 - Flex draws from trauma to perform intense workouts.

01:05:49 - Flex explains why he had to kill the ego of bodybuilding in order to transition into his next career.

01:12:33 - Flex’s public speaking career was born when he realized what he missed about bodybuilding was the stage. 01:20:08 - Flex shares the secrets behind his success.

01:30:07 - Eric asks Flex how he can add lean muscle, lower overall body fat and get rid of visceral fat.

01:45:21 - Flex details what he discusses in his public speaking engagements.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I would stay in shape. I moved myself from Marina Del Rey in California to a place called
0:07.2	Fullerton, California where all the Flex magazine photoshoots were taking place and I slept on
0:12.0	a sofa for a year and a half turned up every
0:14.7	single day at this gym and I was the squeaky wheel. I'm in shape and all these
0:19.0	guys who are under contract getting paid a lot of money by we do a turn up in
0:22.4	horrible off in horrible horrible ship and they get paid
0:25.2	a lot of money to be in ship.
0:27.4	So I turn up and was like this photographer would go nuts all the time and I was like, hey,
0:31.3	I'm ready.
0:32.3	I'm test shots. And in the end he was like okay
0:33.9	Welsh kid didn't even get the chance to learn my name come on Welsh kid jump in and
0:37.3	three months later this little image popped up in the Flex magazine and that
0:42.2	was enough for me to be like okay things are moving
0:45.2	know.
0:46.2	Welcome to the Excellence Project my name is Eric Worry and today we have seven time
0:50.5	Mr. Olympia Flex Lewis on the show. We're going to talk about everything,
0:55.7	excellence, artistry, physical fitness, mindset, what it takes to be great. I think you're going to get some great
1:04.9	lessons from this conversation. It's an extended conversation I even ask him for
1:10.0	some coaching on my own journey so with no further do let's jump right into my
1:15.1	conversation with the one and only flex Lewis. Flex Lewis. Wow how you doing?
1:21.8	It's great to be Eric. It's great to have you. We finally made this happen.
1:26.0	We live like, you know, 15 miles from each other and we've been threatening to do this for, don't know six months or something.
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