Kevin Levrone: Strength

Michael Gervais (0:08)

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And this episode is with Kevin Levrone. And Kevin's craft is bodybuilding. And in fact, he's really good at it. He's been inducted into the hall of fame for bodybuilding. And I didn't realize that this was such a thing. I didn't, naively, I didn't have a deep understanding of the process of becoming one of the best bodybuilders in the world. And the way that he captures the bodybuilding art and science is that he's captured it in a way that's a very dangerous sport. And I don't say that lightly. And one of the reasons being is because they push their body to these unbelievable limits. And then when they go perform the thing that they do on stage, posing and highlighting and shaping their contours and their musculature and the way that they've shaped their body, they move their body fat down to something near 3% body fat. And then they're on stage and they're straining at 90% max, maybe even 97% max.