Step 4 — Acast Description (Episode 63)
📣 Robert Sikes built his pro bodybuilding card on a diet no one thought belonged in the sport. Before keto, disordered eating and OCD nearly took him out completely.
📋 Robert is a WNBF/OCB natural pro bodybuilder, the creator of Keto Brick, and the author of Ketogenic Bodybuilding. In this conversation, he talks about the bro-dieting years that wrecked his health, the self-experimentation that led him to earn his pro card on keto with zero coaches or roadmap to follow, and how he's built a business and a life around solving problems he lived through himself — food, training, even the clothes on his back. We also get into fatherhood, homesteading, and how he's learned to work with his OCD instead of against it.
🔑 What You'll Learn
- How disordered eating and "bro dieting" nearly ended his bodybuilding career before keto changed everything
- Why he pioneered ketogenic bodybuilding with no coaches or precedent to follow
- How OCD shaped his training and macro tracking, and how he learned to redirect it
- What led him to create Keto Brick and build a business around solving his own problem
- How natural living, homesteading, and parenting shape his approach to health today
💡 "There is no such thing as maintenance. You are either getting better or you are getting worse." — Robert Sikes
🌐 Connect with Robert Sikes
https://ketosavage.com
https://x.com/ketosavage
https://www.instagram.com/ketosavage
https://www.youtube.com/@Ketosavage
https://www.ketobrick.com
https://www.ketobodybuilding.com
https://pod.link/1169900822
⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.
⏳ Chapters
0:47 Welcome and intro
3:37 From scrawny teen to first competition and disordered eating
5:54 Finding keto by accident and launching Keto Savage
7:27 Building Keto Brick and the new apparel line
11:25 Getting "red-pilled" — cutting out toxins at home
14:13 The birth story that changed things
21:22 Coaching, natural bodybuilding rules, and supplements
23:18 OCD: origins, triggers, and reframing it as a tool
35:30 Muscle, aging, his dad's cancer, and entrepreneurship
44:30 Building an AI coaching tool, homesteading, and closing thoughts
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