Life Beyond Being Shredded - Jamie Alderton - #208

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. Welcome back. My guest today is Jamie Alderton, fitness model, coach, author, and now family guy. We're talking today about what life is like after you've been shredded. Anyone who grew up in the fitness world throughout 2010 to 2020 will know who Jamie is. Grenade J, as he was, grenade fitness' poster child, multiple magazine front covers, WBFF Worlds fitness model, natural competitor, all this stuff. But I wanted to find out what happens when you make the transition from being someone who steps on stage at 4% body fat and has tons and tons of admiring guys, probably asking you what your current chest and arm split is, to having a more holistic lifestyle. He box jumped Mount Everest last year for charity and he's now living a balanced lifestyle with wife and child and multiple businesses. I'm fascinated by finding out how people go through that transition. He's a great guy. I really enjoyed speaking to him. But for now, it's time for the wise and wonderful Jamie Alderton.
Talk to me about what you've been doing. What's your day got in store for you?

**Jamie Alderton** (1:29)
Today, well, at the moment, we're just building our new offices. So we're kind of to and from there. I've got a lot of client work doing, so I run two memberships, kind of a B to, I say B to B, so helping fit special scale and grow their business, and the B to C side, helping people get healthier, happier, fitter and stronger. So juggling, spinning those two plates is full-time job. And obviously I have no clue about building stuff. You know, I go into the builders and they're talking about, I have no idea. And I just had to say to them, look, I do pushups for a living. You need to like, you need to get like a whiteboard and draw it out in crayons for me. So they're getting there, but how I've made it this far with stuff like that, I don't know.

**Chris Williamson** (2:10)
There's got to be a point in every man's life where he becomes his dad in terms of capability for DIY. I haven't crossed that threshold yet.

**Jamie Alderton** (2:19)
That will never happen, unfortunately. I still to this day, at 35 years of age, if I need a picture put up, my dad will get the phone call. I have attempted, and this office looks really nice, but it's just an office of lies because behind every single frame is holes and really deep bits of plaster that's been crisped off the wall. I literally have yet to successfully put up a picture. Because I only have two tools, Chris. If it doesn't go in with an Allen key or hammer, then that's it. The dad gets the phone call.

**Chris Williamson** (2:55)
Yeah. I wish that I could say I wasn't outsourcing everything manly to my dad as well. I don't feel emasculated by that. I think that we are the savant 21st century man.

**Jamie Alderton** (3:08)
Yeah. I mean, my ironing game is on point, but that's what seven years in the army does. So you're kind of forced to those kind of things. So my wife gets me through all the ironing. And to be honest, we share, she does the lawn. Now, a lot of guys would think that mowing the lawn is a very masculine thing to do. And like we said, you said with the savant thing, I disagree.
We have like a weird exchange of things. Even cooking food, I cook the steaks, okay. She does the roast potatoes. You know, we all have our roles with certain things. And it's just based on the skills that we have. Nothing to do with gender at all. It's due to who's better at that job and do it. And for some reason, I've never enjoyed mowing the lawn.

**Chris Williamson** (3:55)
That is a very egalitarian household, right? Equality of access to the ironing board, equality of access to the mower outside.

**Jamie Alderton** (4:05)
Yeah, well, there you go. I mean, we just find the best person for the job. And if we both dislike it, outsource.

**Chris Williamson** (4:11)
Exactly. That's it. What a wonderful way that you could just scale a family forward now.

**Jamie Alderton** (4:16)
Yeah, well, our daughter's six coming on seven. And she's getting there with a few things. She actually enjoys cleaning, which has got a big smile on my face.

**Chris Williamson** (4:26)
Yeah, that's it. So what you need to do is develop your child into the weakness in both yours and your missus' wheel houses.

**Jamie Alderton** (4:33)
Yeah, at the moment, bribery is working.