OG Lessons From The Golden Era of Online Fitness (with Funk Roberts)

What you’re about to hear is something really special.

Funk Roberts recently interviewed me on The Over 40 Alpha Podcast for his Legacy Series where he’s honouring the original pioneers of online fitness.

In this interview, I tell the REAL story about how I went from Skinny Vinny to launching one of the first-ever digital muscle-building programs and how that single product built the foundation for an entire fitness empire.

We talk about:

- The identity crisis that secretly drove my early success

- How I scaled from $10K to $100K to millions…starting with just an ebook

- What made the 2006–2013 fitness boom so different from today

- The exact tweak I gave Funk that still fuels his 12,000-member program

- And how AI, branding, and community are reshaping the future of online coaching

Whether you’re an OG, or just starting out, there’s gold in here.

In this episode:

0:00 Intro

6:27 From distance runner to personal trainer to top gym salesman

9:55 Discovering internet marketing and ebooks

12:30 The birth of No-Nonsense Muscle Building

17:41 Early years of internet marketing

24:45 Scaling through customer feedback and product layering

28:38 Behind the scenes of early affiliate marketing

33:11 When the affiliate game got cutthroat...and why Vince pivoted

36:11 The pivot to branding and YouTube’s golden days

41:48 How Vince is using AI to 10X his coaching productivity

44:56 The 10/80/10 method to stay human while using AI

48:55 Vince’s vision for personal AI coaches

50:41 Why community and collaboration are irreplaceable

53:45 The Legacy Guitar: giving Vince his flowers

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