Happy 2021 Earthlings! It’s a new year, and many of us are setting goals for the months ahead. If upping your fitness game is on your to-do list (and even if it’s not), you’ll want to listen to this episode! This week we are chatting with former UFC Fighter, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, and all-around fitness authority, Bobby Maximus. Bobby shares the ups and downs of his personal health journey and gives us a peek inside his life during quarantine - discussing wellness, fitness, eating for your microbiome and trusting your gut, being smart when picking your health battles, finding joy and a sense of play in the mundanity, establishing a gratitude practice, and breaking our perpetual cycles of unhappiness. 

About Bobby Maximus: Bobby Maximus is one of the world’s foremost fitness authorities. He’s the creator of The Maximus Gym and director of Project Maximus, one of the country’s most elite and hardcore training programs. He is a former UFC Fighter and BJJ World Champion, and over the years he has broken multiple power-endurance world records. His latest book, The Maximus Body, is full of cutting-edge fitness strategies, 100 workouts, and a training plan that has successfully transformed A-list actors and actresses, elite special-forces soldiers, all-star athletes, and everyday men and women. With Bobby Maximus’s guidance, you can become one of the most insanely fit people the world has ever seen.

Find out more about Bobby Maximus: 

• Book - The Maximus Body: https://www.amazon.com/Maximus-Body-Physical-Training-Unstoppably/dp/1623369908 
• Website: https://www.bobbymaximus.com/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bobbymaximus 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialbobbymaximus/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobbymaximus/ 

For Further Exploration: 

• Men’s Health - Bobby Maximus: https://www.menshealth.com/author/214988/bobby-maximus/
• Hench - Definition: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/hench 
• C. Diff - What is it?: https://www.cdc.gov/cdiff/what-is.html
• Viome: https://www.viome.com/

Probiotics and Prebiotics: What’s the Difference?: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/probiotics-and-prebiotics

Produced by Byron Knight

Camera by Christoph Ashok

Edited by Pat Bell https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6271907/ 

Podcast Assistance provided by Amanda Taylor 

Art & Design by Alice Vandy