Luke Leaman's Background and Career History

Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the Mind Muscle Connection podcast. Today I have a very special guest on, Luke Lehman. He is a co-founder of Muscle Nerds, and he has over 20 years experience in the health and fitness industry. He's done things like fitness equipment sales, personal training, strength coaching, stretch therapy, massage, sports nutrition, supplement sales, mentoring, and like we just talked about off air, he's currently speaking, doing some public speaking as well right now. So Luke, I appreciate you taking time out of your day and coming on here. Yes, sir. Did you? It's like you went to the CIA or the FBI and you got my whole back. No one's ever come up with every single thing I've done. That's crazy. Yeah, that's usually what I do before all these episodes, run a background check on you. No, but I actually got it from LinkedIn. I searched and just grabbed the bio from there. But I thought it was cool to chat about how you've done different aspects of the fitness industry. I thought that would be pretty cool to touch on. Yeah, man, I've done it all. To be honest, I'm like the CrossFit of fitness industry guys. I'm like, just put my hands in a bit of everything. Yeah, so like I started early training for high school football as we do in Texas. So I started eight years old and with some really good coaches too. So it wasn't like your usual high school football coaches that let you lift like crap and pound you into the sand. So did obviously football, baseball, but I stopped that before high school. Basketball, a little bit in high school. Power lifting all through high school. Track and field all through high school. and then yeah so after I left I went to college I started getting into bodybuilding I lost my love for powerlifting at the time because that was back when everything was about the equipped lifting and I hated it I hated it I didn't think I didn't think I I respect it and I understand like it is very technical and it is difficult but to me it would be like Usain yeah like racing Usain Boltz but having rocket skates on but just to me it doesn't so I was the dummy who would train raw and then show up and put my suit on at the meet. I had no idea how to use it. Did bodybuilding for a while. I went back to powerlifting, did some physique shows. Currently, I've been doing like jujitsu competitions, but I haven't done that in a couple of years. It's been too busy. And yeah, in that period, I went through, I was a manager at GNC, so I sold supplements for a while. I worked a long time selling fitness equipment. In fact, right now I'm in Austin, Texas with one of my friends I've known for about 20 years. And he's one of the guys I went into the fitness sales industry with. So he still does that, but gave me a good insight on like quality of equipment and all that. And I started training business kind of in conjunction with that, where I would go train people before I went to work and go to work all day and go train people after work. So that's where I first started doing my old, most of my personal training as a career. Then, yeah. So then went to see Charles Poliquin. Like he was the guy for me. I came up with Charles Poliquin, Charles Staley, Paul Check, all those guys, TMAG, Muscle Media, and then finally went to meet Charles and eventually ended up working for him and eventually took over, not took over his position, but took over his spot lecturing, teaching at BioSig, the PICP stuff and all that.