Episode Transcript: #491 - Steve Maxwell

know a longtime Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt longtime strength and conditioning guru and my

friend. And I found out about you from DVDs actually. I think someone from the underground posted up

a link to one of your DVDs a while back. And I got one of your kettlebell DVDs, which I thought was

very informative and very interesting. And then I started reading about your lifestyle and reading

about your philosophies on training and reading some of your blog entries. And you're an unusual

dude when it comes to the strength and conditioning and fitness and just the wellness advocates.

You usually have a bunch of different schools of thought when it comes to those. You got meatheads

who are just into lifting the heaviest weights that they can and getting as big as they can. But

you're sort of a weirdo, man. You're like traveling the world. You're doing seminars all over the place.

You're eating very little food. You've got a lot of people interested in how you're living your life

these days. Well, I've definitely gone through an evolution. I've been at this for 51 years. I

started when I was like 10 years old. That's when you started working out. Yeah, when I was 10. My

father got me a York barbell set. York was just down the road from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. And I was one

of those kids that was sort of weak and scrawny and basically getting picked on by some of the

neighborhood kids. And my father kind of saw where this was going, got me the barbell set,

and literally made me go out for wrestling. Really? Made me. I went kicking and screaming.

And then I found out I was actually pretty good at it. Well, you must be happy. You must have thanked

him at some point in time. Oh, for sure. Absolutely. I mean, he had tried to teach both me and my brother

boxing and so forth in the backyard. And I learned early, I didn't like to get hit, but I sure like