Stan Efferding - What is the Vertical Diet?

About this episode

Stan Efferding discusses the Vertical Diet and his experiences as a professional bodybuilder and powerlifter.

Stan Efferding is an IFBB Professional bodybuilder and World Record Holding Powerlifter. He is one of only 10 men in the world to ever total over 2,300 pounds raw in competition. Stan holds the title as the Worlds Strongest Bodybuilder. Stan studied Exercise Science at the University of Oregon and has been training high school, Collegiate, and Professional athletes for over 25 years.Stan conducts seminars all over the country for various sports and nutrition and training techniques. He has appeared in many magazines and writes for Muscular Development, Flex Magazine and Power Magazine.Stan is also a successful Entrepreneur having built three different start-up businesses into multi-million dollar companies. www.StanEfferding.com

People in this episode

Hosts: Zach Price, Connie Nightingale

Guest: Stan Efferding

Topics covered

• Vertical Diet
• Bodybuilding
• Powerlifting
• Nutrition
• Training Techniques
• Entrepreneurship

Keywords

• Vertical Diet
• Stan Efferding
• bodybuilding
• powerlifting
• nutrition
• training
• exercise science

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Oregon, Muscular Development, Flex Magazine, Power Magazine

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